Assistant Producer — "City Lights: Pure Dead Brilliant" | Hopscotch Films / BBC Scotland (2025)
Jonathan Melville
Published
Assistant Producer on this one-off BBC Scotland documentary celebrating the iconic 1980s sitcom City Lights, which starred Gerard Kelly as aspiring novelist Willie Melvin and ran for six series from 1984 to 1991. Conducted extensive archival research, sourcing and logging decades of BBC Scotland footage from the original series, including clips, behind-the-scenes material and promotional content. Worked with the production team to identify and catalogue material that supported the documentary’s narrative, which reunited surviving cast members including Elaine C Smith, Jonathan Watson and Dave Anderson alongside creator Bob Black. The programme aired on BBC Scotland in at Hogmanay 2025.
Skills: Archival Research, Content Logging, BBC Archive Systems, Documentary Production, Scottish Television History