Claudia Rosencrantz

Claudia Rosencrantz is a British journalist, and former Controller of Entertainment for ITV, a post she held for over ten years. She was also Director of Television for Virgin Media for five years and worked for Jamie Oliver for four years and as CEO of the Jamie Oliver Media Group for the last two years

In December 2005, ITV's Director of Television Simon Shaps testified to Rosencrantz's influence in saying that she "has been responsible for some of the biggest entertainment hits in ITV's history. It's no exaggeration to say that the US networks have watched and waited to see what Claudia has commissioned".

Rosencrantz began her career in Fleet Street in 1979, where she worked first as a picture editor and then as a journalist on various publications, including The Daily Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Sunday magazine and Elle, before opting to become a television producer in 1986.

Her production credits include executive producer of Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, working with Elton John to produce Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras, the drama Prisoners in Time (starring John Hurt, based on Eric Lomax's book The Railway Man) for the BBC. She also worked with Barry Humphries on Dame Edna Everage's shows as producer for ten years, including winning the Golden Rose of Montreux in 1991. She was one of the first UK producers to cross the Atlantic, to produce the Dame Edna specials for the US networks.

ITV

Rosencrantz joined the ITV Network in 1995 with responsibility for commissioning around 500 hours of prime-time entertainment programming a year, encompassing variety and talk shows, music specials and game shows. Her first major breakthrough hits were Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Popstars and Pop Idol, which changed the fortunes not only of ITV but of two of the biggest US networks, ABC and Fox. Her next generation of entertainment events, I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, Hell's Kitchen, The X Factor and Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway remain some of ITV's highest rated shows. She is credited with shifting presenters Ant & Dec from children's television to an entertainment double act for a general audience, and for putting Simon Cowell on television. Rosencrantz was also responsible for running ITV's entertainment talent roster – a list that included Simon Cowell, Ant and Dec Chris Tarrant, Michael Parkinson, Sharon Osbourne, Paul O'Grady, Gordon Ramsay, Davina McCall, and Harry Hill. Before her departure at the end of 2005, she had also commissioned Soapstar Superstar, Dancing on Ice,Love Island, Harry Hill's TV Burp and Britain's Got Talent'' which have all proved highly successful for ITV. In the official UK top ten most watched TV shows of the last decade, four of the entries are Rosencrantz's commissions.

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