Miles Bullough
Miles set up Wildseed Studios in 2013 with business partner and creative director Jesse Cleverly with the mission to find, mentor and invest in new talent and develop projects with them that could be pitched to prime time and the outcome has been projects with new talent for Disney, Sky, Fullscreen BBC3 and most recently for Netflix in the form of a drama series for Netflix Kids and family entitled The Last Bus.
The launch of Wildseed Studios came after Miles left Aardman Animations where he was Head of Broadcast. He was responsible for setting up many shows there, including the hit series Shaun The Sheep, Creature Comforts in the UK and US as well as establishing Aardman’s Interactive and Rights divisions.
Before Aardman Miles was MD of talent-led, comedy production company ‘Absolutely’ whose stand-out shows included the sketch series ‘Absolutely’, 'Trigger Happy TV', C4's 'Armstrong & Miller' and 'Stressed Eric' for BBC2 (the UK’s first animated sitcom which Miles also sold to US Network NBC). Miles set up and exec-produced ‘The Jack Docherty Show’ for Channel 5, a 350 episode nightly chat show that ran from Channel 5’s opening night for 2 years.
Miles met the Absolutely team while working for IPH Westhall, a management company for producers looking to set up as indies and which took care of finance, production management and legal services for independent Producers. Notable clients included Charlie Parsons’ Planet 24 (Miles was line producer of series 1 of ‘The Word’) and The Walt Disney Company (Miles was a production accountant for the televised opening of Euro-Disney and helped Disney set up their Saturday morning programming for GMTV as Line Producer).
Before IPH Miles worked at After Image in Brixton, an arts programme producer, where he started as a runner and became production manager but along the way did camera, sound, post production, set building, catering, accounting, legal, make-up... etc. This was Miles’ first job in TV. He was terrible at make-up.