Charlie Parsons

Charlie Parsons has had a huge, positive impact on the international media sector over the last 15 years and changed the face of television with his creative hits, The Word, The Big Breakfast and the Emmy winning Survivor.

Double Emmy award winning Charlie Parsons is a creative force who has radically transformed television. As co-founder of one of television’s most influential production companies Planet 24, with Bob Geldof and Waheed Alli, he created and produced hundreds of groundbreaking TV programmes including The Big Breakfast and the Word. Planet 24, (co-founded with Lord Waheed Alli and Bob Geldof) was an engine for change in British media and his television shows were a platform for many household names to make their reputations including Chris Evans, Gaby Roslin, Lisa Tarbuck, Johnny Vaughan, and Denise Van Outen.

He brought the first reality show to television screens with Survivor, which is being shown in over 20 editions in dozens of countries around the world and has just had its 18th series on CBS in America: Survivor is one of Americas top ten TV shows, a huge hit internationally and continues to create punchy headlines with its originality and win awards globally. Charlie is its Executive Producer.

Before setting up Planet 24, Charlie studied English at Pembroke College, Oxford and trained as a journalist. He worked at London Weekend Television on programmes ranging from The Six O’clock Show to Network 7, which won a BAFTA award for originality. He still writes regularly for newspapers including the Financial Times.

Now Charlie is the CEO of Charlie Parsons Creative a personal private investment company specialising in developing ideas and people in Media and Entertainment. In this role, he just developed and produced Never Forget, a musical with the songs of Take That which had a rousing and successful West End run with four and five star reviews before touring the country. He is also a patron of the London Film School.