HI,

I’m Christian Watt, an Emmy, RTS, PGA and Mind Media award-winning, Grierson, Broadcast, NTA, Bulldog and British Comedy Award nominated director of comedy and factual television.

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My work in comedy began on the Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington hit travelogue An Idiot Abroad. Since then I’ve series directed Netflix’s Jack Whitehall: Travels With My Father, directed pilots with the likes of Tom Davis, Sophie Willan and Lee Kern and worked with Charlie Brooker on a number of projects – most recently series directing the BBC/Netflix global mockumentary Cunk On Earth, which was nominated for the RTS Best Scripted Comedy Award and earned the super talented Diane Morgan, aka Philomena Cunk, a BAFTA nomination.

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My factual work includes CNN’s  Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy, winner of the 2024 Hosted Nonfiction Emmy; series directing the stars of England’s 1990s football team for ITV’s Harry’s Heroes: Euro Having A Laugh; series directing Googlebox’s Moffatt family for C4’s The British Tribe Next Door and Barry Humphries’ A Granny’s Guide To The Modern World; plus directing the likes of Stephen Fry, Philippa Perry, Frankie Boyle, Bradley Walsh, Vinnie Jones and Bear Grylls for a range of shows and single documentaries.

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I also work on commercial projects and have recently directed a series of work for comms lab The Utopia Bureau.