GARY BURNS

Current work: freelance producer, working with various indie TV / film studios as well as distributors and promoters.

Previous work: Head of European PR & Content Development for MCM Comic Con.

Was tasked with sourcing content: Preacher, Sherlock, Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, Outcast, Beowulf, Jekyll and Hyde, Humans, etc. — and guests: Dominic Cooper, Gillian Anderson, Daniel Radcliffe, Richard E Grant, etc. for panels, Q&As and screenings at our MCM Comic Cons; principally the flagship London events in May and October. (MCM London's May 2016 show racked up 133k visitors across three days.)

I have worked with film & TV studios and video games publishers to bring great content to popular culture shows and events, while overseeing and planning PR strategy around panels and activations. I handled press registration for all events, including London; which regularly saw between 800-1000 press attend.

Brokered partnerships, incluing audioBoom channels and numerous press and production projects that still go on around the show. The most high profile of these saw the BBC (and Boundless Productions) bring The Apprentice to the show in May 2016. The episode aired 01.12.16 and was extensively highlighted again on 08.12.16 (among the contestants favourite moments).