Biography
Sue Vertue - Producer
Sue Vertue started her working life as a production manager in the commercials
world before joining Tiger Television in 1989.
She began producing in 1991 and her credits whilst there include: nine
of the 14 television programmes made of the internationally renowned comedy
Mr Bean (ITV) which won many awards around the world, including an ACE
and an Emmy; The Vicar Of Dibley (co-producer, BBC ONE) starring Dawn
French (Bafta nomination and Emmy winner 1998); Hospital, a comedy starring
Greg Wise and Bob Peck which was commissioned by Channel 5 for their opening
night (Banff Award for Best Comedy 1998); Great Railway Journeys: Hong
Kong To Ulan Batar (co-producer, BBC ONE), presented by Clive Anderson;
The Last Englishman (BBC ONE), an hour long period drama starring Jim
Broadbent (Bafta nomination for Best Single Drama); and Gimme Gimme Gimme,
the sitcom for BBC TWO written by Jonathan Harvey and starring Kathy Burke
and James Dreyfus (two British Comedy Awards nominations, Bafta nomination),
which successfully transferred to BBC ONE.
Sue left Tiger Aspect at the end of 1998 to produce Comic Relief 1999
for the BBC (British Comedy Awards winner).
This six hour live show broke all records for the amount of money raised
on the night.
In April 1999 Sue joined her mother Beryl Vertue's company Hartswood
Films where she produced another series of Gimme Gimme Gimme (now in association
with Tiger Aspect) - again frequently top of the BBC TWO weekly ratings.
Their first project together was Coupling for BBC TWO, followed by The
Savages for BBC ONE, written by Simon Nye and starring Geoffrey Palmer,
Marcus Brigstocke and Victoria Hamilton.
Sue has now produced four series of Coupling, winner of the Silver Rose
of Montreux and of the Best TV Comedy Award at the 2003 British Comedy
Awards and starring Jack Davenport, Sarah Alexander, Gina Bellman, Kate
Isitt, Ben Miles, Richard Coyle and Richard Mylan.
The fourth series was being broadcast as Carrie & Barry was in production.
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