Caroline Hollick
Freelance Drama Consultant, Executive Producer
Freelancer
Caroline is a freelance consultant and executive producer, working with a range of UK and European production companies.
She was most recently Senior Vice President, International Development and Production at Peter Chernin’s North Road Company. There, she developed scripted projects for both the UK and international markets and was an executive producer on the upcoming medical thriller Heart of a Killer starring Niv Sultan, co-produced with Sipur Studios and Endemol Shine.
Previously, she was Head of Drama at Channel 4 from 2018 to 2024, where she presided over a major revival in the channel’s drama output, overseeing a series of critically acclaimed and BAFTA-winning shows, alongside record-breaking streaming hits. Successes included A Woman of Substance by Katherine Jakeaways and Roanne Bardsley and Trespasses by Ailbhe Keogan, as well as The Gathering by Helen Walsh and Get Millie Black by Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James, co-produced with HBO. Notable earlier hits include the celebrated series It’s A Sin by Russell T Davies, Jack Thorne’s hard-hitting COVID drama Help, starring Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham, as well as I Am Ruth by Dominic Savage and Kate Winslet. She had significant commercial success with a number of European adaptations, including Before We Die starring Lesley Sharpe, Suspect starring James Nesbitt and The Couple Next Door starring Sam Heughan. She also oversaw several series of continuing drama, Ackley Bridge, alongside the ongoing progressive soap Hollyoaks.
Before that, she was creative director at Studio-Canal-owned Red Production Company, where she oversaw the development of successful dramas such as Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax by Sally Wainwright, as well as executive producing the groundbreaking drama Butterfly by Tony Marchant and Lenny Henry’s first original drama, Danny and the Human Zoo. Before that, she was Head of Development at Red. She began her career as a production trainee at Yorkshire Television.
