‘At Home With The Furys’ Producer Opens Banijay Label

Max Goldbart
·1 min read

At Home with the Furys producer Demi Doyle is opening a Banijay-backed label under the Workerbee umbrella.

Doyle is leading Navybee, which will focus on talent-led premium docs. She has spent her last seven years with All3Media-backed Optomen, during which time she produced Netflix smash At Home with the Furys along with ITV’s Tyson Fury: The Gypsy King, while she developed and produced BBC hit Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon. Prior to joining Optomen, she produced The Secret Life of 4,5,6 Year Olds, The Apprentice, Gogglebox, Educating Cardiff and London and Naked Attraction.

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Doyle’s new label is jumping aboard the trend for premium docs featuring big talent and access. Workerbee has already made the likes of Lifetime’s Janet Jackson and Netflix’s Human Playground narrated by Idris Elba. Having been handed additional cash by Banijay, the company recently became a group and backed Welsh production label Ty’r Ddraig. Navybee is the second label to be set up within its umbrella.

Workerbee CEO Rick Murray called Doyle “one of the UK’s most sought after access documentary producers and someone talent want to work with again and again.”

“Demi is the most contacted TV producer I know and with a very clear USP, Navybee brings an exciting new talent focussed dimension to Workerbee’s premium documentary slate,” he added.

Doyle said: “It is an incredible opportunity to bring authentic talent-led documentaries to the forefront in a fresh and innovative way.”

The announcement was made as the Edinburgh TV Festival kicked off, bringing together the great and good of the UK TV industry.

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