Annabel Jones

Annabel Jones (born January 1972)[1] is a Welsh television producer, best known for producing Black Mirror with Charlie Brooker.[2] She is a co-writer of the 2018 book Inside Black Mirror, with Brooker and Jason Arnopp.[3] Jones is co-founder of the production company Broke and Bones, alongside Brooker.[4]

Early life

Jones was born in January 1972 and grew up in Milford Haven, Wales.[1][5] She began studying developmental economics at the London School of Economics in 1990. After graduating in 1994, she worked for television production companies in Soho, London.[5]

Career

Jones became an executive at the production company Endemol.[5] She began working with Charlie Brooker at the production company Zeppotron, owned by the Endemol, on five series of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe (2006–2008), the first two series of the science fiction anthology series Black Mirror (2011 and 2013) and the satirical police procedural A Touch of Cloth (2012–2014).[5][6] Jones and Brooker founded the Endemol Shine production company House of Tomorrow in 2014, Jones serving as managing director. It had a revenue of £31.2 million in 2018.[6] Jones and Brooker quit the label House of Tomorrow in January 2020, founding the production company Broke and Bones in February 2020. The pair each have a 50% share in the company.[4][6]

Awards and nominations

In 2017, Jones won a Primetime Emmy Award for the Black Mirror episode "San Junipero" and in 2018, won another for the episode "USS Callister".[7] Alongside other individuals associated with the series, Jones was credited in the programme's nomination for the 2018 Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series[8] and the 2017 nomination and 2018 awarding of the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Long-Form Television.[9][10]

Personal life

Jones is a vegetarian.[11]

References
  1. "Broke and Bones Ltd". gov.uk. Government Digital Service. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  2. Gilbert, Gerard (28 December 2017). "Without Annabel Jones, 'Black Mirror' wouldn't exist". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  3. Brooker, Charlie; Jones, Annabel (1 November 2018). Inside Black Mirror. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9781529102581.
  4. Kanter, Jake (10 February 2020). "'Black Mirror' Creators Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones Waste Little Time In Launching New Production Outfit". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  5. Reynolds, Matt (11 April 2019). "Inside the prophetic, angry mind of Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker". Wired. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  6. Kanter, Jake (24 January 2020). "'Black Mirror' Creator Charlie Brooker Quits Endemol Shine Company Amid Netflix Talks". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  7. "Annabel Jones". Television Academy. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  8. For the list of nominees, see "Voters Are "Sweet" On Queen Sugar". Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
    For the list of winners, see "Black Reel Awards | Past Winners". Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  9. "2017 PGA Awards Winners". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  10. McNary, Dave (20 January 2018). "'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' Wins Producers Guild Award for Live Entertainment-Talk". Variety. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  11. "'Our leftover ideas? We sell them to Samsung': Black Mirror creators reveal all". The Guardian. 2 June 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
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