
SEAT 03
Sunny Lau
Reality and sizzle
Experience
11 yrs
Credits
3
Specialisms
4
| Title | Role | Network | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| House Rules — S6 | Lead Editor | ITV | 2025 |
| Cold Open | Editor | Sky | 2023 |
| Pitch Deck | Editor | Channel 4 | 2022 |
Sunny trained on constructed reality, the genre that teaches an editor to build story out of glances. Eleven years across returning series has made her fluent in the grammar of the form: the tease, the cold open, the act break that lands a beat before the audience expects it.
She is the editor commissioners ask for when a series needs a new opening. Her sizzles are cut from the same rushes everyone else has already given up on, and they routinely become the template the rest of the run follows.
She story-produces inside the timeline, restructuring across episodes when the shoot order has failed the story.
Creator channels are constructed reality whether they admit it or not. Offline gives Sunny formats with real characters and no template, which is the situation she has always cut best in.
- Constructed reality
- Cold opens
- Sizzle and promo
- Story producing in the edit
Work with Sunny.
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