The Stage

Comedy commissioning editor Leddy bows out after 11 years with Channel 4

Published Tuesday 28 October 2008 at 17:55 by Matthew Hemley

Channel 4 commissioning editor for comedy and the broadcaster’s head of comedy films, Caroline Leddy, is to step down from her role in the new year.

Leddy, who has worked at Channel 4 for 11 years and whose credits include The Book Group, Smack the Pony, Trigger Happy TV, Green Wing and The IT Crowd, said it was “time for a change”.

The broadcaster said she would make an announcement about her future plans in “due course”.

Speaking about her achievements, Channel 4 director of television and content, Kevin Lygo, said: “The roll call of the projects she has overseen and obsessed over in the last decade reads like a list of Channel 4’s most distinctive and defining output. She is quite simply a brilliant spotter and developer of comic talent and we will miss her immensely.”

Leddy has been head of comedy films and commissioning editor for comedy since 2006. She joined Channel 4 in 1997 as commissioning editor for entertainment, and prior to joining Channel 4 worked for independent company Talkback Productions, now known as Talkback Thames.

In her role as head of comedy films at Channel 4, Leddy’s credits include Irvine Welsh’s first TV comedy film Wedding Belles.