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“Gary is a true original. He is one of the few Entertainment Execs I’ve worked with who can genuinely create something out of nothing and deliver it like no one else. He is fantastically collaborative, brilliantly professional and very, very funny. His experience in the unscripted space is unparalleled and he has the hits and the awards to prove it. We all need more Gary Monaghan’s in the world”: Karl Warner, Former Head of E4, Youth and Digital Channel 4

“Gary is an extremely innovative Executive Producer. From show running big productions to creating and producing his own ideas he is someone with a justifiably great reputation, who I wouldn’t hesitate to commission from or work with”: Kate Phillips, BBC Director of Unscripted

“Gary is an incredibly creative, innovative producer who's committed, disciplined and, most importantly of all, a really strong leader. He's always solution orientated and comfortable working on both projects of scale and those with smaller budgets, whether it's in fact ent, reality or big entertainment”: Julian Bellamy, MD ITV Studios
In 2000 Gary Monaghan set up his own production company Radar, which later became Mad Monk. Since then he has created and produced original entertainment, comedy entertainment and factual entertainment shows for all the major broadcasters, such as the multi-award winning Banzai (Bafta, RTS, Broadcast and BBC Indie awards) and Wild Things (Broadcast award and Rose D’or).

He also freelances as a Producer, Director, Writer and Editor

He started as a writer and on-screen sidekick for Chris Evans on the music channel The Power Station, TV Mayhem on TV-am and then finally on Channel 4's ground breaking breakfast show "The Big Breakfast". 

​He went on to produce "The Word", the controversial and rule-breaking late night live Channel 4 "youth" show that featured amazing bands, drunken guests and TV's most disgusting talent show, The Hopefuls. Later he Series Produced two series of the BBC live comedy series "the Sunday Show" featuring the infamous celebrity prankster Dennis Pennis and the first TV starring role for Peter Kay.

He became an Executive Producer for BBC Manchester and ITV working on numerous projects ranging from BBC 2 theme nights to a docu-series for ITV2 called Red Lion (ITV 2), a weekly catch up TV show called Soap Fever (ITV 2), and the factual entertainment hits When Athletes Attack (ITV) and When Celebrities Strip (ITV)



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