Freelance television

Alex Scott

Director &
Vision Mixer.

I direct reality television and mix live broadcasts. From fixed-rig galleries to esports stages, I work with teams to follow the story and bring it to screen.

Take a look at my work

01 / Selected work

Series, specials & live broadcasts.

Repeat series bookings.
Specialist live productions.

29+Big Brother & Celebrity Big Brother series

12+Love Island & All Stars series

Multiple editionsInsomnia festivals & live tournaments

Reality / fixed rig

Life in the gallery.

Returning across dozens of series of Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother and Love Island, alongside series 1 and 2 of My Mum, Your Dad. Following conversations, relationships and the moments that shape an episode, with directing responsibilities specific to each production.

Live / multi-camera

Making the cut.

Royal Wedding coverage, election nights, debates and Budgets: specialist broadcasts with dedicated studio setups and vision-mixing desk configurations. These sit alongside daily news direction and outside broadcasts.

Esports / events

Following the action.

Repeat bookings across Insomnia Gaming Festivals, covering multiple tournaments, finals and stage formats, alongside the Pokémon European International Championships and other live events.

Programme recognition

Programme awards & recognition.

Recognition for productions in my credits, celebrating the work of their crews and creative teams.

Illustration of a gold globe television trophy.

Programme award

National Reality TV Awards · 2026

Big Brother

The programme won Best Entertainment Show in 2026, recognising series 22, and Best Social Experiment Show in 2014. My Big Brother credits span Reality Director and Senior Director bookings from 2011.

2026 award record

Illustration of a bronze theatre-mask trophy.

Programme award

BAFTA · 2026

Last One Laughing

The production team won the BAFTA for Entertainment. My Reality Director credits include series 1, the 2026 Halloween Special and series 3, forthcoming in 2027.

BAFTA award record

Programme nomination

BAFTA nominee · 2024

My Mum, Your Dad

Nominated for the BAFTA for Reality in 2024. The programme also won Best Dating Show at the 2024 National Reality TV Awards. I worked as Gallery Director on series 1 and 2.

BAFTA nomination

Programme award

RTS Special Award · 2021

I’m A Celebrity…
Get Me Out Of Here!

I was part of the crew recognised for bringing the programme to Gwrych Castle in Wales during the pandemic. The award celebrated the extraordinary team effort behind rebuilding the production for its 2020 series.

RTS award citation

Programme award

BAFTA · 2018

Love Island

My work on Love Island began in 2018, with Reality Director and Senior Director roles across different series. Programme honours include a BAFTA in 2018, Best Entertainment Programme at the Broadcast Digital Awards in 2019 and Broadcast Awards in 2020, and an MTV award in 2021.

BAFTA award record

Illustrative trophy artwork. Recognition belongs to the programmes and teams described above.

Explore the work

Credits in detail.

Selected series & productions.

Selected productions are highlighted in the list, with forthcoming bookings marked. Expanded dates are production bookings, including preparation where applicable, not broadcast dates. Roles vary by series.

Explore creditsAll workReality & entertainmentLive televisionEsports

Big Brother & Celebrity Big Brother

29+ series · bookings from 2011 to 2026

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Big Brother 2026 — 3 Sept 2026 – 20 Nov 2026 (current booking).
Big Brother 2025 — 15 Sept 2025 – 14 Nov 2025.
Celebrity Big Brother 2025 — 17 Mar 2025 – 25 Apr 2025.
Big Brother 2024 — 18 Sept 2024 – 15 Nov 2024.
Celebrity Big Brother 2024 — 21 Feb 2024 – 22 Mar 2024.
Big Brother 2023 — 18 Sept 2023 – 17 Nov 2023.
Celebrity Big Brother 2018 and Big Brother 2018 — 30 Jul 2018 – 5 Nov 2018.
Celebrity Big Brother 2018 (winter) — 7 Dec 2017 – 1 Feb 2018.
Celebrity Big Brother 2017 (summer) — 28 Jul 2017 – 25 Aug 2017.
Big Brother 2017 — 15 May 2017 – 26 Jul 2017.
Celebrity Big Brother 2017 (winter) — 14 Dec 2016 – 2 Feb 2017.
Big Brother 2016 — 23 May 2016 – 26 Aug 2016.
Celebrity Big Brother 2016 — 16 Dec 2015 – 5 Feb 2016.
Celebrity Big Brother 2015 — 24 Aug 2015 – 24 Sept 2015.
Big Brother 2015 — 17 Apr 2015 – 16 Jul 2015.
Celebrity Big Brother 2015 — 18 Dec 2014 – 6 Feb 2015.
Big Brother 2014 — 21 May 2014 – 10 Sept 2014.
Celebrity Big Brother 2014 — 16 Dec 2013 – 29 Jan 2014.
Big Brother 2013 — 24 May 2013 – 12 Sept 2013.
Celebrity Big Brother 2013 — 17 Dec 2012 – 24 Jan 2013.
Big Brother 2012 — 14 May 2012 – 6 Sept 2012.
Celebrity Big Brother 2012 — 13 Dec 2011 – 26 Jan 2012.
Big Brother 2011 — 4 Aug 2011 – 9 Nov 2011.
Big Brother: 2011–2018 and 2023–2026 — 12 series bookings. Celebrity Big Brother: 2011, winter and summer editions in 2012–2018, plus 2024 and 2025 — 17 series.
Roles vary by series. Senior Director bookings include Big Brother 2017, 2018 and 2026; Celebrity Big Brother summer 2015, summer 2017 and both 2018 editions. Big Brother 2023: Reality Director.
Some bookings cover more than one production. The combined 2018 booking is retained as a single date range; it is not treated as separate dates for each programme.
Additional coverage includes Live From The House, live feeds, The Live Surprise and the 2018 farewell; these are not extra series in the total.

Reality Director · Senior Director

Reality

Love Island

10 series · series 4–13 · 2018–2026

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Love Island 13 (Mallorca) — 30 May 2026 – 27 Jul 2026.
Love Island 12 (Mallorca) — 2 Jun 2025 – 3 Aug 2025.
Love Island 11 (Mallorca) — 27 May 2024 – 26 Jul 2024.
Love Island 10 (Mallorca) — 29 May 2023 – 1 Aug 2023.
Love Island 9 (South Africa) — 7 Jan 2023 – 14 Mar 2023.
Love Island 8 (Mallorca) — 29 May 2022 – 1 Aug 2022.
Love Island 7 (from London - COVID) — 21 Jun 2021 – 21 Aug 2021.
Love Island Series 6 — 3 Jan 2020 – 24 Feb 2020.
Love Island Series 5 — 26 May 2019 – 29 Jul 2019.
Love Island Series 4 — 28 May 2018 – 26 Jun 2018.
Series 4–8: Reality Director. Series 9: Senior Reality Director. Series 10 and summer 2025: Senior Director. Summer 2026: Reality Director.
Series 7 was worked remotely from London during COVID. All Stars and Australia are listed separately.

Reality Director · Senior Director

Reality

Last One Laughing UK

Series 1 & 3 · Halloween Special

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Last One Laughing - The Special — 25 May 2026 – 29 May 2026.
Last One Laughing - Series 3 — 16 May 2026 – 21 May 2026.
Last One Laughing UK - Series 1 — 26 Aug 2024 – 5 Sept 2024.
The 2026 special is scheduled for Halloween 2026; series 3 is forthcoming in 2027. Dates above describe production bookings.

Reality Director

Comedy

Love Island: All Stars

Series 1 & 3 · South Africa · 2024 & 2026

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Love Island All Stars - Series 3 (South Africa) — 4 Jan 2026 – 24 Feb 2026.
Love Island All Stars - Series 1 (South Africa) — 7 Jan 2024 – 19 Feb 2024.

Reality Director · Series 3

Reality

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

Welsh castle productions

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I'm A Celeb (2021) — 11 Nov 2021 – 13 Dec 2021.
I'm A Celeb 2020 — 5 Nov 2020 – 5 Dec 2020.

Challenge Director · 2021 / Reality Director · 2020–2021

Entertainment

Love Island Australia

Series 7 · 2025

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Love Island Au Series 7 — 29 Aug 2025 – 14 Sept 2025.

Reality Director

Reality

Squid Game: The Challenge

Series 2 · production booking in 2025

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Squid Game: The Challenge - Series 2 — 21 Jan 2025 – 11 Feb 2025.

Reality Director

Reality

Inside

Series 2 · production booking in 2024

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Inside - Series 2 — 13 Nov 2024 – 23 Nov 2024.

Reality Director

Reality

My Mum, Your Dad

Series 1 & 2 · 2023–2024

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My Mum, Your Dad - Series 2 — 25 Apr 2024 – 12 May 2024.
My Mum, Your Dad - Series 1 — 9 May 2023 – 27 May 2023.

Gallery Director

Reality

The Anonymous

Production booking in 2024

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The Anonymous 2024 — 1 Apr 2024 – 23 Apr 2024.

Reality Director

Reality

Elite Business Live

5 editions · 2020–2022, 2025 & 2026 · return booked for 2027

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Elite Business Live 2027 — 9 Mar 2027 – 11 Mar 2027 (forthcoming booking).
Elite Business Live 2026 — 10 Mar 2026 – 12 Mar 2026.
Elite Business Live 2025 — 10 Mar 2025 – 13 Mar 2025.
Elite Business Live 2021 — 11 Mar 2021 – 12 Mar 2021.
Additional credited editions: 2020 and 2022. Director / Vision Mixer in 2020–2022; Vision Mixer in 2026.

Director · Vision Mixer (2020–2022) / Vision Mixer (2026)

Live event

Josh Must Win

Production booking in 2023

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Josh Must Win — 25 Mar 2023 – 6 Apr 2023.

Reality Director

Reality

Pokémon European International Championships

2023

Director · Vision Mixer

Esports

Open House

Series 2 · production booking in 2022

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Open House - Series 2 — 2 Sept 2022 – 19 Sept 2022.

Reality Director

Reality

Bad Chefs

Series 1 · production booking in 2022

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Bad Chefs - Series 1 — 15 May 2022 – 28 May 2022.

Reality Director

Reality

True Love or True Lies

Series 2 & 2021 production · 2019–2021

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True Love Or True Lies 2021 — 10 Sept 2021 – 29 Sept 2021.
True Love True Lies S2 — 3 Apr 2019 – 18 May 2019.

Reality Director

Reality

Are You The One?

Production booking in 2021

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Are You The One 2021 — 12 Aug 2021 – 9 Sept 2021.

Reality Director

Reality

Ready To Mingle

Production booking in 2021

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Ready To Mingle 2021 — 28 Apr 2021 – 20 May 2021.

Gallery Director

Reality

Celebs Go Dating

Series 2 & 9 · production bookings in 2017 & 2020

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Celebs Go Dating Series 9 — 5 Dec 2020 – 7 Dec 2020.
Celebs Go Dating Series 2 — 3 Feb 2017.

Gallery Director · Series 2 / Reality Director · Series 9

Reality

Insomnia Gaming Festivals

2017–2019 · UK Masters, Arena Clash & live stages

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i65: Insomnia Masters and Arena Clash finals, plus the RAF v Army v Belong Overwatch showcase.
i64: Arena Clash finals across seven game titles.
i63: UK Masters, Arena Clash and The International coverage across CS:GO, League of Legends, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Rocket League, Call of Duty, Tekken 7 and Dota 2.
i62: UK Masters and Arena Clash finals; Football Management World Championship; Battlefield Blitzkrieg; game showcases.
Also: UK Masters League of Legends playoffs for the Insomnia 61 final (2017), as Director, Vision Mixer and Engineer.
Selected editions: i62 and i63 (2018), i64 and i65 (2019).

Director · Vision Mixer

Esports

Unreasonable Impact

2017 & 2018 · live corporate events

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Unreasonable Impact 2018 — 4 Oct 2018.
Unreasonable Impact 2017 — 27 Sept 2017 – 28 Sept 2017.

Director · Vision Mixer

Live event

Sky News — daily programmes

Daily studio programmes · 2007–2017

View series & production detail

Studio Director: Sunrise, Sky News at Nine, Sky News at Ten, Midnight News and Sky World News and Business Report.
Vision Mixer: Boulton & Co, Sky News Dot Com, Jeff Randall Live, The Live Desk, Afternoon Live, Live at Five, and other daily programmes.
Sky News Paper Reviews: Vision Mixer · 2007–2017.

Vision Mixer

Live news

Colourful Celebrity Big Brother credits naming Alex Scott among the Senior Reality Directors. — Celebrity Big BrotherYear of the Woman · 2018
Senior Reality Director

Ant and Dec at the Welsh castle alongside I’m A Celebrity credits naming Alex Scott as Reality Director. — I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!Reality Director · 2021

Love Island series 8 end credits listing Alex Scott among the Reality Directors. — Love Island / Series 8Reality Director · 2022

Ready To Mingle end credits listing Alex Scott among the Gallery Directors. — Ready To MingleGallery Director · 2021

Screen-credit excerpts from the respective productions. Programme imagery belongs to its respective rights holders.

02 / About me

From transmission
to the director’s chair.

Over two decades in television, with experience from transmission and playout through to the director’s chair.

Before becoming freelance in 2011, I worked in transmission operations and at Sky News. That technical grounding still shapes how I work: clear preparation, precise communication and an understanding of what it takes to get a programme to air.

From planning multi-camera coverage to making decisions in a live gallery, I bring the same considered approach to every production.

03 / The company

Mercian Media Ltd

The company behind my work.

Mercian Media Ltd is the company through which I provide freelance television directing and vision-mixing services.

Apps, utilities & games

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No Red Hens is a trading name of Mercian Media Ltd, dedicated to apps, utilities and games for Apple platforms.

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Alex Scott

Series, specials & live broadcasts.

Life in the gallery.

Making the cut.

Following the action.

Programme awards & recognition.

Big Brother

Last One Laughing

My Mum, Your Dad

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!

Love Island

Credits in detail.

Big Brother & Celebrity Big Brother

Love Island

Last One Laughing UK

Love Island: All Stars

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

Love Island Australia

Squid Game: The Challenge

Inside

My Mum, Your Dad

The Anonymous

Elite Business Live

Josh Must Win

Pokémon European International Championships

Open House

Bad Chefs

True Love or True Lies

Are You The One?

Ready To Mingle

Celebs Go Dating

Insomnia Gaming Festivals

Unreasonable Impact

Sky News — daily programmes

The Royal Wedding: Monarchy In The UK

The Royal Wedding: Outside Broadcast Coverage

UK Riots: Live Coverage

General Election & The Results

The Leaders Debate

The Scotland Debate

The Wales Debate

Manhunt: Northumbria

U.S. Elections: Decision Time

The Budget

From transmissionto the director’s chair.

Mercian Media Ltd

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I’m A Celebrity…
Get Me Out Of Here!

From transmission
to the director’s chair.

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