Susie Liggat is a British television and film producer and executive producer. She has worked in independent film and high end television drama as well as working as Head of Physical Production at the UK Film Council.
She is currently the series producer for the upcoming Netflix drama, Bodies, an eight part miniseries based on Si Spencer's graphic novel with the same title.
Career Her career had previously been as a first assistant director, in which capacity she worked on popular series such as Teachers, Black Books, and Casanova, until she became a producer in 2006.
She produced Invasion of the Bane, the pilot episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, a spin-off from Doctor Who, on which she had worked as a first assistant director.
During the production of the third series of Doctor Who, Liggat produced one filming block (the two-parter "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood") as holiday relief for regular producer Phil Collinson. Liggat produced five episodes of the fourth series: "Planet of the Ood", "The Sontaran Strategem", "The Poison Sky", "The Unicorn and the Wasp" and "Turn Left". She also produced the 2008 Christmas special, entitled "The Next Doctor".
She has produced Blood and Oil for BBC2 - a 2 x 90 mini drama set in the Nigerian Delta Oil fields, House of Anubis, The Cafe x 2, Sherlock, and in 2014 she produced Mapp & Lucia for BBC One and then You, Me and the Apocalypse for NBC / Sky.
Filmography
As producer +YearTitleDistributorAdditional Info2007The Sarah Jane Adventures2007–2008Doctor Who2010Blood and Oil2011House of AnubisSugartown2011–2013The Cafe2013The Tractate MiddothSherlock2014Mapp & Lucia2015You, Me and the Apocalypse2017FortitudeLittle Women2019Giri/Haji2023Bodies2025Black MirrorNetflixEpisode: "Hotel Reverie"
As First Assistant Director +YearTitleDistributorAdditional Info1994Just UsDirected by Kay Mellor1995–1996Wycliffe1996Beautiful ThingDirected by Hettie Macdonald1997Mrs. Dalloway1998Our Mutual Friend1999The Last Yellow2001CrushHotel2002The Abduction Club2003Burn ItRockfaceTeachers2004Black Books2005Casanova2006Doctor Who
As Executive Producer +YearTitleDistributor2003Blind Flight2012Cockneys vs Zombies2022The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
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