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.
Kate Scholefield is an award-winning series producer & director who has spent many years shining a light on the often-overlooked stories found in the lives of those around us. Work includes BBC 2’s BAFTA and Grierson nominated Silenced: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain , a film that takes an unflinching look at mainstream attitudes towards the disabled; The Big C and Me which follows the lives of nine people living with cancer over the course of a year and was described by the Daily mail as “one of the most ambitious documentaries ever commissioned”; and, most recently, to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, What Happened at Auschwitz – which received a five-star review from The Guardian in a review that called it a “vital” and “urgent” film at a time of rising disinformation and holocaust denial.
Other work has included several episodes of the Bafta winning series, Who Do you Think You Are?, Trouble at Topshop, a two-part series charting the rise and fall of the iconic brand, and Channel 4’s groundbreaking series What makes a Murderer which explores the complex biological and psychological factors that can contribute to the act of murder.
Having started her journey in television at Grampian TV in Aberdeen, Patricia then worked at BBC Scotland across a diverse range of programming including six series of ‘Hollywood Greats’ with Jonathan Ross; ‘America in Pictures: The Story of Life Magazine’ and ‘Shooting the Hollywood Stars’ presented by renowned photographer, Rankin; arts and factual documentary series – ‘Ex-S’, ‘Social Workers’ and ‘Designing Our Lives’ ..and a smattering of live broadcasts inc ‘Edinburgh Festival’, Hogmany Live ‘ and ‘T In The Park’…and many more.
In between, she spent 3 years at Sabhal Mor Ostaig on the Isle of Skye where she studied for a Diploma in Gaelic Broadcasting.
Since leaving the BBC in 2012 to go freelance, she has worked for numerous independent companies including Furnace TV, Tern TV, Indelible Tele, Matchlight and Mike Birkhead Associates where she spent 2 years working on a major 3 part National Geographic wildlife series ‘Wild Sri Lanka’. Then a long spell at Firecrest Films working on ‘Panorama’, ‘Dispatches’, ‘This World’ and ‘Supershoppers’ before joining STV Studios in 2017 as a freelance PM where her credits included ‘Yes/No: Inside the Indyref’; ‘Inside Central Station’ and 4 series of ‘The Yorkshire Auction House’.
Patricia joined Finestripe in June 2024.