Michael Philo

Director of Development

Mike joined The Garden as Development Executive in April 2017 and was promoted to Head of Development in June 2019. He generates new ideas across all genres as well as overseeing the day to day running of the development team.

Previously, he ran development at Oxford Scientific Films and worked across specialist-factual and factual entertainment formats as a Development Executive at the BBC.

Past projects include Tomorrow’s Food (BBC One); Meet The Humans (BBC Earth); Food Detectives (BBC TWO) and the drama-documentary Kennedy’s Suicide Bomber (Smithsonian Channel).