SEAT 05
Tom Ellery
Documentary series
Experience
13 yrs
Credits
3
Specialisms
4
| Title | Role | Network | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Rescue | Series Editor | BBC One | 2025 |
| Built to Last | Editor | Channel 4 | 2023 |
| Cold Harbour | Editor | ITV | 2022 |
Tom cuts returning documentary series — the blue-light, blue-collar and access strands that run twenty episodes a year and live or die on consistency. Thirteen years in, he has delivered across network daytime and peak factual.
His strength is the multi-strand episode: three stories, one running time, and a duty to give each of them a proper ending. He builds them on paper first, then in the timeline, and rarely misses a delivery date.
He is trusted with sensitive access material and has taken more than his share of episodes through compliance without losing the story.
Creators with genuine access — trades, workshops, services, rescue — are sitting on returning series and cutting them as one-offs. Offline lets Tom bring series thinking to channels that have never had it.
- Returning series
- Multi-strand storytelling
- Rig and access filming
- Compliance cuts
Work with Tom.
Applications are reviewed monthly. Tell us the channel, the format and what is not working.