Former BBC executive Steve Condie has joined the Seven Network’s UK production co-venture 7Wonder as head of specialist factual.
Condie comes from Oxford Scientific Films where he executive produced series for the BBC and Channel 4 including the Philippa Gregory-presented The Real White Queen, Jimmy Doherty's Food Prices – The Shocking Truth and BBC Four's music and fashion series Oh You Pretty Things.
That follows last month's appointments of Chris Wilson as head of popular factual and Mish Mayer as head of development.
At the BBC Condie led the history development team in the factual division whose output included The Power of Art presented by Simon Schama, The Seventies with Dominic Sandbrook and The British Family with Kirsty Young.
Wilson was commissioning editor for factual at Sky where he was responsible for projects including The Sun Set, Micky Flanagan’s Detour de France, Flintoff: From Lords to The Ring, Flintoff: Lord of The Fries and All Aboard East Coast Trains.
Mayer, who has worked for Endemol, Objective Productions, Maverick and TwoFour Broadcast, is developing a slate of factual and factual entertainment content and formats as well as working with the Australian development team at Seven Productions to adapt Seven formats for the UK and vice versa.
Launched in March, 7Wonder is a joint venture between the Seven Network, Alexandra Fraser, Liza Abbott and Simon Ellse. Fraser was joint CEO of Maverick Television and Abbot was a key production executive at the UK’s ITV.
Its first commission, Micky’s Flanagan’s Detour de France, which follows the English comedian and his mate Noel Lynch as they embark on a fantasy Tour de France encompassing the Champagne vineyards, Belgian beers, wild boar, Burgundy wines, the Eiffel Tower and nudist camps, will premiere later this year on Sky1.