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Charlie Palmer

TV Producer and Director

Charlie is a television producer and director. As a director he is best known for Poldark, Doctor Who and Death in Paradise.

Beginning his career in the camera department Charlie worked on a huge range of projects including documentaries about Wittengstein and Nabokov, pop videos for Pink Floyd and Julie Andrews and TV dramas and features such as A Dance to The Music of Time, Shooting the Past, Bend it Like Beckham and Star Wars.
In 2000 he made a short film starring Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson, which led to more work as a director. His credits include: Lark Rise to Candleford, Poirot, Miss Marple, Lewis and Doc Martin.

More recently he has been working as a producer on Sid Gentle’s comedy Extraordinary for Disney and prior to that was series producer on Company Picture’s murder-mystery comedy Agatha Raisin for Acorn TV.