ENTERTAINMENT & COMEDY ENTS
Dawn has worked on family-filled Saturday night entertainment TV, filling your living room with fun games, hilarious audience hits, great characters and a lot of laughs!
Dawn has proven herself to be a casting queen, sourcing colourful, diverse story-driven contributors to take part as gameshow contestants, surprises and talented performers. Social media trawling, getting in touch with news outlets, secretly contacting friends and family and interviewing potential contributors under a ruse are all in a day’s work for casting on these big entertainment shows!
Alongside casting, Dawn has generated ideas, games and surprises for Comedy Ents shows, to ensure big laughs and exciting entertainment for viewers.
Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel has dominated Saturday nights with this celebrity spinning gameshow.
Dawn cast the contestants for this show - including Rich and Kamal, who can be seen if you click the logo above - and produced contestants on the day to ensure they had the best energy and reactions.
Hungry McBear | BBC One
Gino D’Acampo presents the latest series of Family Fortunes as two go head-to-head with a chance to win a £30,000 jackpot.
Dawn cast a number of the families and her in depth research chats informed the set-up of their introduction VTs.
Thames Television | ITV
Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer was a welcome distraction from covid, bringing all the bants as Peter Crouch, Maya Jama and Alex Horne joined forces to bring the biggest names from the worlds of sport, comedy and music back into our lives.
Dawn cast Peter Crouch’s biggest fan each week and a Little Mix super-fan for a surprise!
Fulwell 73 | BBC One
Take Off with Bradley & Holly was a gameshow where contestants would win the trip of dreams.
Amongst casting other contestants for some fun games, Dawn cast a deserving contributor for the surprise of a lifetime, by contacting someone who had set up a charity during the pandemic for people struggling with their mental health.
Hungry Bear Media | ITV
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show features big laughs, big games and big surprises.
Dawn cast talented singers for The Unexpected Star of the Show (click the logo to see Ciara who Dawn found from a newspaper article from Belfast!).
She also cast contributors, meeting them under a ruse for other surprises, working undercover for the surprise karaoke segments Kylie-oke and Gary-oke, and working with unsuspecting sleepers’ partners for The Midnight Gameshow.
Hungry McBear | BBC One
Mrs Brown opened the doors to her house for a Saturday night entertainment show in which she and the family were joined by celebrity guests in All Round to Mrs Brown’s.
Dawn cast contributors for the Mammies of the week, people for the confessional, and fans of everyone’s favourite Mammy.
Hungry Bear Media | BBC One
Dawn was part of the regional casting team for the 10th series of Britain’s Got Talent.
This role involved setting up local talent auditions through, finding individual talents, characters and contestants with interesting and emotional backstories; travelling across the UK and filming auditions with an XDCam, cutting together interviews and performances.
Contestants were found from news articles, local talent competitions, and through working with different local communities to set up auditions.
Thames Television | ITV1
Working on the 12th series of the reality singing competition The X Factor, Dawn was responsible for interviewing potential contestants and writing biogs for the contestants, looking after, producing contestants being filmed at auditions and conducting the post-performance interviews.
Thames Television | ITV1
As a Junior Researcher on Surprise Surprise, Dawn was part of a casting team researching worthy people using eTribez, news articles and social media.
This would also involved going for recces under a ruse to interview potential surprisees.
ITV | ITV1