Gill Isles is a BAFTA winning TV comedy producer.

Life and career

Gill Isles is originally from

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and attended NEW College, Pontefract. Gill later graduated from the BA Media Production course at

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and began her career working at

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as a broadcast assistant. After moving to London for a role as researcher at Radio 1's ''

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'', Isles moved into TV comedy working as an assistant producer on shows including ''

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'', ''

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'', BBC3's ''

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'' and ''The State We're In'' as well as working with the

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on his

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BAFTA tribute night. Isles moved to Manchester in 2005 to take up the role of talent producer for BBC Comedy North, the corporation's comedy unit based in

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, and in 2007 left to head up the northern arm of Steve Coogan's company Baby Cow. Whilst at Baby Cow Isles produced shows including '' Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special'', four series of the award-winning ''

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'' starring

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, the second series of the comedy drama ''

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'' for Sky and BBC2 sitcom ''

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''. In 2015 Isles became a freelance comedy producer and has subsequently won awards whilst working with comedy talent in the UK including

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Mackenzie Crook Paul James "Mackenzie" Crook (born 29 September 1971) is an English actor, comedian, director and writer. He played Gareth Keenan in ''The Office'', Ragetti in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' films, Orell in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', ...

and most notably

Peter Kay Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973) is an English actor, comedy writer and stand-up comedian. He has written, produced and acted in several television and film projects, and has written three books. Born and brought up in Bolton, Kay studied ...

, producing both series of the multi-award-winning ''

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'' for

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. The series, first broadcast in April 2015, won awards including two

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and the BAFTA for Best Scripted Comedy in 2016. More recently Isles produced series 3 of ''

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'' which won the

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for Best Comedy Series in 2018 and is working with comedian

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on his series ''

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''.

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