Jon is Editor of Factual Entertainment at Optomen. Jon was Executive Producer on the last two series of the BAFTA nominated “Gordon Ramsay’s F Word” and on “Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live” in January 2008 (winner of Broadcast Award 2009 for Best New Programme).
He joined the Optomen development team in 2001 after three years working at Carlton and Thames on various factual and factual entertainment programmes. In 2003 he developed and Location Produced the RTS-nominated documentary Jump London (C4), which followed a group of Free Runners as they jumped across some of London’s biggest landmarks.
He then moved back into development where he has created and helped to develop a wide range of Features, Documentary and Specialist Factual programmes and formats, including the highly popular food format Great British Menu (BBC2), the ambitious social science series Making Slough Happy (BBC2), fashion series Mary, Queen of Shops (BBC2), and the controversial documentary Fat Girls & Feeders (C4).
His production credits range from Heroes of Comedy (C4) to Animal Passions (C4) to four series of Gordon Ramsay’s F Word (C4).