Having initially spent three years in television news at TV-am from the age of 19, Mike Christie thought he was abandoning television as a career when set up his own business working in the music and film industries in 1991.
For over five years in the 90s, his business had enormous success in event design and production, video production, and marketing, for a broad range of clients including Suede, Pet Shop Boys, Walt Disney, and Derek Jarman.
In 1998, Mike returned to television production as a director, bringing with him a unique style to factual and factual-entertainment documentary making. In the last decade he's collected a diverse set of directing credits including Jump London (C4), Little Britain Down Under (BBC1) and Wayne Rooney's Street Striker (Sky1)
Director
2009
Yesterday We Were In America - 1x60', drama doc
Big Art - 4x60' Channel 4 (location director)
2008
Wayne Rooney’s Street Striker - 3x60’, Sky 1
Yesterday We Were In America - drama doc
I Can’t Believe I’m Telling You This - 1x60'
The Secrets of the 12 Disciples - 1x120', Channel 4 (studio director)
2007
Little Britain Down Under - 1x60', BBC1 (Producer/Director)
Power To The People - BBC2 (Stunt director)
2006
Parkour Rendezvous - TV commercial for Rogers, Canada
Gay Vicars - 1x60', Channel 4
2005
We Are Detectives - 1x60', Channel 4
Heroes - A short film for Live 8
Jump Britain - 1x60', Channel 4
2004
The Real Little Britain - BBC2 / 3
Body Talk (series of 2) - Channel 4
2003
Jump London - Channel 4
Prams, Parenting & Parties - BBC 3 (Producer/Director)
2002
Football Stories - Channel 4 (P/D)
Lives Less Ordinary (Kirsty Wark meets The Carmelites) - BBC 2
Lives Less Ordinary (Kirsty Wark meets Ian Shaw) - BBC 2
2001
From Here To Modernity (series director, of 3) - BBC 2
The Ad Factor - (P/D) BBC 2
Around the World in 80 Raves (producer, progs 1-3) - Channel 4
Producer / Director
2000
The Entertainers (pilot) - Channel
4 British Tribes - Sky One
Cream Millennium - Sky One
1999
Cream (progs 1 & 4) - Sky One
Crime Squad - BBC 1
Tales From The Net (series of 5) - BBC 1
Drop The Debt - ITV / MTV / Worldwide
1998
Underground - Channel 4
Search For The Sea Serpent - (location producer) - Discovery / Channel 4
Pink Planet - Channel 4
Executive Producer
2004
2 Tone Britain - Channel 4
4 Pieces Of Me - Channel 4