Lisa Wickham Explained

Lisa Wickham
Birth Name:Lisa Wickham
Birth Place:Trinidad
Occupation:Director & producer

Lisa Wickham is a media producer-director-TV personality in Trinidad and Tobago. She began her television career at the age of six on the weekly Rikki Tikki Children's Show, a live programme on the only national TV station in Trinidad and Tobago at the time, Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT). She literally grew up on national television, eventually hosting shows such as the daily morning prime-time news and talk show T&T This Morning, the daily mid-morning talk show Community Dateline and the iconic teen talent show Party Time. In 2005, the government of Trinidad and Tobago closed TTT and in 2006 re-opened the station under the name Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG). CNMG was then closed in 2018.

Wickham is best known as a producer, line producer, location producer and Director for films, TV shows, advertisements and music videos including Home Again, Girlfriends Getaway, Hero: Inspired by The Life and Times of Mr. Ulric Cross, Forward Home: The Power of The Caribbean Diaspora, The E-Zone TV Series, Lisa Wickham's E-Zone, BET Turks and Caicos Jazz Show, BET St. Lucia Jazz Show, Chef Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen, Tobago and Trinidad Episodes, Girls Cruise, Tobago and Trinidad Episodes, Love and Hip Hop Atlanta Season 8, Trinidad Episodes.

Wickham returned as the first face on the new TTT on September 3, 2018 as Creative Producer and Lead Host of the new morning talk show, The Now Morning Show. President and CEO of Imagine Media International Limited, she was invited to serve as the Interim CEO of TTT in 2019.

Film and television

In 1999, Wickham was invited to co-host the mid-morning live talk show Dateline on Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT), alongside Allyson Hennessy.

In 2002, she was offered the premier role as host of Trinidad and Tobago Television’s live prime-time morning talk show T&T This Morning, which she hosted and co-produced until the station closed in 2005. By this time Wickham had launched her own television production entity making the transition to producer-director, and producing Caribbean-syndicated shows such as The E-Zone and Bon Mange as well as music videos for some of the top soca and gospel artistes in the Caribbean, including Destra Garcia, Shurwayne Winchester, Claudette Peters, Rizon and Patrice Roberts. Wickham had also begun to make guest host appearances on the prime-time morning show of Barbados, Mornin' Barbados, on the national TV channel, Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (2002–05).

By 2006 The E-Zone TV Show (produced, directed and co-presented by Wickham) had been picked up by Omni 1, Canada, and BET J, in the US having already aired in 20 Caribbean territories. The E-Zone TV Show featured the people, places and faces of the West Indian diaspora and was the first TV Show of its kind to highlight carnivals in London, Miami, Canada, New York and most of the Caribbean Islands, St. Kitts Music Festival, Dominica's World Creole Music Festival, Antigua Sailing Week, St. Maarten Heineken Regatta, among others. It featured personalities including regional prime ministers, presidents, international recording stars and Caribbean artistes. Several spin-off shows in the Caribbean and the Diaspora have since emerged since The E-Zone.

In 2007 and 2008, Wickham produced and directed the Copyright Music Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago (COTT) Music Awards which was aired across the Caribbean.

By 2020, Wickham had produced and directed shows for Black Entertainment Television (BET and BET J), such as the St. Lucia Jazz Festival Post Show (2006 and 2007), the Turks and Caicos Music Festival (2006) and the 2007 Trinidad Carnival Special. In 2011, she produced, directed and executive produced Forward Home: The Power of the Caribbean Diaspora. Forward Home was filmed in Holland, Suriname, Canada, Guyana, Jamaica, the US, the UK, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. In 2011, she traveled to South Africa where she documented the introduction of Trinidad and Tobago styled Carnival to the Township of Bela Bela. In 2012, she was the line producer for the Sudz Sutherland and Jennifer Holness film Home Again. Don Carmody also served as producer on Home Again. In 2014, she produced the Bobbcat film directed by Roger Bobb, Girlfriends' Getaway. In 2015 she launched SOKAFIT, a health and fitness TV Show using the music of Trinidad and Tobago known as Soca music and combining it with dance moves. This TV show evolved into a full fledged health and fitness system. In 2015 she also joined the producing team of HERO: The Life and Times of Mr. Ulric Cross which eventually premiered to critical acclaim in 2018. HERO was filmed in Ghana, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago and The UK.

In 2020 HERO was the opening film in Hollywood at the 28th Pan African Film Festival. In 2018, Wickham became the creative producer and lead host of The NOW Morning Show on national television in Trinidad and Tobago on the station TTT.

Career

Wickham attended the Warwick Business School, in the United Kingdom. She graduated with an MBA with Distinction. She attended the University of the West Indies where she graduated with a BSc Hons in Industrial Management. She also attended Wirschaft Universität, Vienna, Austria, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, Oxford University Said Business School and the London Film Academy. During and after her school years she has published in a number of business journals and newspapers and has conducted a number of motivational sessions and workshops throughout the Caribbean, for schools, organizations, government community projects and the Trinidad & Tobago Defence Force.

She was the General Manager of the University of the West Indies, Institute of Business (IOB) now known as the Arthur Lok Jack School of Management. She served as the Head of the Global Quality Exchange, a World Bank Project for Business Expansion and Industrial Restructuring for Trinidad & Tobago, CEO of Vision Marketing Caribbean Co. Ltd and Interim CEO of TTT Media Network Limited. She is currently the President and CEO of Imagine Media International Limited.

Appearing on television since the age of six, she made the transition from children’s TV to adult contemporary TV, hosting a series of successful TV productions including a daily morning prime-time TV Show on national TV in Trinidad and Tobago and the popular E-Zone entertainment TV magazine show, which has been syndicated throughout the Caribbean and in the US on BET J. She has been a contributor to BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 1Xtra and has produced TV programmes for BET/BET J as well as the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.

In 2006 she founded E-Zone the Mag! magazine, which features articles on Caribbean entertainment personalities. E-Zone the Mag! and E-Zone TV Show have been used as teaching tools for the Caribbean Studies CAPE exam course in some high schools in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean.

In 2007 and 2008, she was the artistic director and producer (for both stage and television) of the highly acclaimed annual COTT Music Awards, including the COTT Foundation Awards Dinner.

In 2009, Wickham was also Producer-Trinidad for the UNICEF-MTV HIV/AIDS awareness film Tribes shot in Trinidad. In 2010, she was associate director for the Best of CaribbeanTales Film Festival, Symposium and Film Market in Barbados. Wickham is known for a number of award-winning films, TV shows, advertisements and music videos.

Selected work as producer and/or director

Television shows

Event producer

Public relations and media management

Films and festivals

Advertisements and corporate features (selected)

Music videos

Selected work as presenter

E-Zone TV Show distribution

Country aired[1] TV station[2] Seasons[3]
ANTIGUA Antigua Broadcasting Service 1-6
USA BET J 4&5
CANADA OMNI 1 4&5
CARIBBEAN (CABLE) CaribVision (20 territories) 1-6
BARBADOS 1-6
DOMINICA Marpin Broadcasting]1-6
GRENADA Grenada Cable television - Community Channel 6 1-6
GUYANA Guyana Television Broadcasting 1-6
JAMAICA CVM Television Limited 1-6
NEVIS GIS 1-6
ST. KITTS ZIZ Broadcasting Television 1-6
ST. LUCIA Daher Broadcasting Service 1-6
ST. MAARTEN & ST. IGNATIUS & SABA Channel 15 1-6
ST. VINCENT St. Vincent & The Grenadines Broadcasting Corporation (SVG TV) 1-6
TRINIDAD TV6, Trinidad and Tobago Television, Synergy TV, NCC TV4, Gayelle TV1-5, 1-6, 4, 1-6 and Germany Special respectively
TOBAGO Channel 5 4-6

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Action (1999) - Episode list. IMDb.com. 2016-05-21.
  2. Web site: Action - The Complete Series DVD Review . Sitcoms Online . 2006-02-21 . 2016-05-21.
  3. Web site: Action (a Titles & Air Dates Guide) . Epguides.com . 2016-01-10 . 2016-05-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160605024735/http://www.epguides.com/Action/ . 2016-06-05 .

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