Matthew Worthy | |
Birth Place: | England |
Occupation: | TV format creator, TV Executive Producer |
Known For: | Joint Managing Director of Stellify Media |
Matthew Worthy is a British TV format creator and Executive Producer. He is also the Joint Managing Director of Stellify Media, alongside his creative and business partner, Kieran Doherty. Worthy & Doherty have co-created multiple entertainment formats - including the international formats Secret Fortune and Take The Money and Run - while working for UK independent production company Wild Rover Productions. In 2014 Worthy & Doherty launched the production company Stellify Media as a joint venture with Sony Pictures Television. Stellify Media is best known for successfully rebooting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with Jeremy Clarkson for ITV, and Blind Date with Paul O'Grady for Channel 5. __FORCETOC__
Worthy began his career at Granada Entertainment working as a researcher on Stars in Their Eyes, You've Been Framed and Celebrities Under Pressure. While working for Granada Kids on the show Jungle Run in 2005 – Worthy devised the show Scratch and Sniff's Den of Doom for CiTV.[1]
He joined Wild Rover Productions in 2006 to create the BBC One interactive quiz Get Smarter in a Week – and went on to consult on the international versions.[2] Worthy worked in a creative partnership with Kieran Doherty at Wild Rover; together they created several international TV formats.[3] Worthy was the Producer of the first two series of Secret Fortune for BBC One.[4]
2009 | Find Me The Funny | BBC One Northern Ireland | Consultant Producer | |
2011 | David Meade: The Gift | BBC One Northern Ireland | Executive Producer | |
2011 | Take the Money and Run | ABC | Consultant Producer | |
2011 | The David Meade Project | BBC One Northern Ireland | Executive Producer | |
2011 | Secret Fortune | BBC One | Series Producer | |
2012 | Dara O'Briain's School of Hard Sums | Dave | Consultant Producer | |
2012 | David Meade: Make Believe | BBC One | Executive Producer | |
2014 | David Meade: Million Dollar Bet | BBC One Northern Ireland | Executive Producer | |
2014 | David Meade: Crowd Control | BBC One Northern Ireland | Executive Producer | |
2016 | Can't Touch This[5] | BBC One | Executive Producer | |
2017-2019 | Goodbye House[6] | RTÉ One | Executive Producer | |
2017 | Don't Say It... Bring It![7] | Dave | Executive Producer | |
2017 | In Solitary: The Anti-Social Experiment[8] | Channel 5 | Executive Producer | |
2017 | Space Truckers[9] | BBC One Northern Ireland | Executive Producer | |
2017-2019 | Blind Date[10] | Channel 5 | Executive Producer | |
2017 | Blind Date Ireland[11] | TV3 | Executive Producer | |
2017-2019 | Beauty Queen & Single[12] | BBC One Northern Ireland, BBC One Wales | Executive Producer | |
2018- | Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?[13] | ITV | Executive Producer | |
2018 | A Taste of Home[14] | BBC One Northern Ireland | Executive Producer | |
2018- | Gino's Win Your Wish List[15] | Channel 5 | Executive Producer | |
2018 | Celebs In Solitary[16] | Channel 5 | Executive Producer | |
2018-2019 | Parents' Evening[17] | BBC One Northern Ireland | Executive Producer | |
2018 | Hot Right Now[18] | BBC One Northern Ireland | Executive Producer | |
2019 | Flinch[19] | Netflix | Executive Producer | |
2019 | There's No Place Like Tyrone[20] | BBC One Northern Ireland | Executive Producer | |
2019 | Secret Body[21] | BBC One Scotland | Executive Producer | |
2020 | Pretty Single[22] | BBC Scotland, BBC One Northern Ireland | Executive Producer |