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Emily Allen

Commissioning Executive, Comedy, Sky Studios

Emily is a Comedy Commissioning Executive at Sky Studios. She joined Sky in May this year from Boffola Pictures (Am I Being Unreasonable, Friday Night Live), where she was Head of Development for three years, and led development across a broad slate of comedy and comedy drama titles. Most recently, she developed and produced Peaked, a sitcom pilot for Channel 4.

Before Boffola, Emily spent three years in the BBC Comedy Commissioning team in a role dedicated to developing the next generation of British talent. Her BBC commissions include the award-winning series Zen School of Motoring for BBC Two, and the inaugural Festival of Funny shorts which brought 15 films from emerging filmmakers to BBC iPlayer. She was also Development Executive on Rye Lane for BBC Film.