our team
From being the first to put Jonathan Ross on screen to making menopause a national issue, Katie has always been in the forefront of TV innovation. She has produced shows for all major networks with talent such as Tony Livesey, Alan Davies and Jo Brand. After leaving Channel X, of which she was one of the founders, Katie moved to Glasgow where she created Bank of Dave – the Bafta and RTS award winning Channel 4 series that made Dave Fishwick a household name and has now become a hit Netflix film. She has been the executive producer on many Finestripe productions including two series of Sophie Grigson’s Slice of Italy for the Discovery Food Network and Davina McCall’s Channel 4 films on the menopause which as well as putting the subject on the national agenda helped to change the law.
Lorraine McKechnie has developed and produced some of the most striking and high-profile factual programmes of recent years. She specialises in securing hard to obtain access and was executive producer on BBC Two’s Murder Trial: The Disappearance of Margaret Fleming and Murder Case, as well as BBC daytime’s Paramedics On Scene. Her BBC2 feature doc The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld won five-star reviews from both the Guardian and The Times and incredible word of mouth. At the same time, her two-part documentary series Boris Becker: The Rise and Fall – an early commission for ITVX – featured a host of the fallen tennis champion’s close friends and rivals as well as a star turn from his estranged wife, Sharlely. A former Nations and Regions executive for Channel 4, Lorraine early producing career includes a raft of Finestripe’s award-winning programmes, including ITV’s ‘The Day That…’ strand, as well as Bank of Dave andthe series Inside Dior . Other notable credits include Stephen Fry: The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive for BBC1.
Calum was a Broadcast Hot Shot in 2023. He has worked on a number of productions for Finestripe including the award winning The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld and Boris Becker: The Rise and Fall.