👋 Say hello · Proper telly people, actually friendly

Friendly voice. Twenty years of form.

The number on day one is the number on wrap day.

TV fixer and production company on the Costa del Sol. Twenty years of UK broadcast across the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and ITV. Twelve of them living in Spain. Ask us anything. Daft questions welcome. We have heard them all and we answer every one, usually before your coffee cools.

20 years UK broadcast
BBC · C4 · C5 · ITV
British Airways · Virgin
20 commissions
Marbella · Málaga · Fuengirola
Bilingual crew

💬 Say hello on WhatsApp ✉️ Email David

Real people answer. No call centre. No attitude. Just experience, and a Pomeranian who thinks he runs it.

📣 OUR MANIFESTO · SAY IT LOUD

Proudly Ballsy

FOUR MILLION VIEWS
Seven days. Three videos. Not a penny on ads. We don’t chase the algorithm. It chases us.
TWENTY YEARS OF PROPER TELLY
BBC. Channel 4. Channel 5. ITV. Twenty commissions. We were making shows before your other fixer had a logo.
ONE PARTNER. NO HANDOFFS
Development, production and fixing under one roof. The same people from day one to final frame. Nobody gets passed to a mate.
STAFF FIRST. NO BULLIES
Great telly without killing anyone in the process. That is the whole company. It also happens to make better telly.
FILM IN SPAIN. WITHOUT LOSING THE PLOT
Permits before your flight lands. 320 days of sun. A Pomeranian in charge. Bring the brief. We bring the rest.
BRAVE ENOUGH TO EXPOSE THE WEINSTEINS
Every industry has them. Most companies look at the floor. We name the behaviour, we protect the people it lands on, and we make the programme anyway.
FAIRNESS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE TEAM
Runner to exec. Same respect, same credit, same right to say no. Nobody on a Ballsy shoot goes home smaller than they arrived.
TURN UP WITH A CAMERA. WE’VE DONE THE REST
We know the entire process, so you don’t pay to learn it. Permits, crew, locations, budgets — fixed weeks in advance. That saves companies thousands. Every time.
FACTUAL DEVELOPMENT. WE RAISE THE BAR
Factual is our specialism and where we are totally unique. Bring a true story, a hunch, a half-idea. We’ll try our very best to make it higher quality, more cinematic and harder for a commissioner to say no to.
WE PROMISE TO CARE ABOUT OUR CREW
Not a slogan. A promise. Fed, paid, rested, credited and listened to. Cared-for crews shoot better pictures. We have twenty years of proof.

TOTALLY UNIQUE NOBODY ELSE DOES ALL TEN.

Brief David on WhatsApp →Email david@ballsy.tv

PROUDLY BALLSY · EST. IN THE SUN

The exec who still does the work

The whiteboard where formats get pressure-tested.

Most creative directors left the edit years ago. David never did.

Twenty years inside BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and ITV development. Twenty commissions. Every development course going, and the one that matters most: being in the room when the answer was no, and coming back with yes.

British Airways and Virgin trusted him with their brands. Ballsy.tv goes viral several times a month without spending a penny on ads. Luck doesn't do that three times a month. Development does.

Hire him and you get a creative director who still writes the treatment, still cuts the taster and still picks up the phone to the commissioner. Stubborn, not difficult.

Hire the knowledge Keep it forever

Factual development. Higher quality. More cinematic.

Most hired execs leave and take everything with them. David leaves it behind on purpose.

Twenty years of hard-won development knowledge, passed down to your team while the slate gets built. Your APs learn how a format actually gets picked up. Your producers learn which door, which day and which sentence. Your company gets stronger every week he's in it.

By the time he walks out, your team can do the job without him. That is the point.

The pressure testHow to break an idea before a commissioner does.
Paper that sellsTreatments and decks that get read past page one.
The roomPitching, reading a channel, hearing what "interesting" really means.
Funding done properlyModels, deadlines, paperwork, months ahead.
Spain, unlockedPermits, crews, locations and the access nobody else has.

The 360 Two countries. One door.

The idea is the easy bit. The funding is the job.

UK

The channels, the commissioners, the funding rounds and the paperwork. Twenty years of knowing who to call and what to say.

Spain

The locations, the permits, the crews, the moonlight. Access from families in a media storm to police and national institutions.

Most companies hand you off at the border. We live on both sides of it.

Day one to final frame

Hand held the whole way. Here is exactly what that means.

Day one
You bring a sentence. We pressure test it before anyone else can.Come to Ballsy with a sentence and we'll work together to make it a series.
Week one
The format on paper. Tone, arc, the killer episode one. Your team in the room, learning.
Month one
Taster tape, deck, funding model lined up properly. Hard deadlines hit. Messy paperwork done.
The pitch
In the room with you, or for you. We know which door and which day.
The shoot
Spain or UK. Our crew, our permits, our fixer. Nothing lost in translation.
Final frame
Graded, delivered, on air. Your team knows how it happened. Then we start on series two.

The bit nobody else can say

Other creative directors give you a deck and a handshake.

We give you a creative director, a production company, a Spanish fixing team, a UK broadcast address and a training programme for your staff, all through one door and on one invoice. Nobody else on either coast does the full 360 from sentence to screen and leaves your team better than they found it.

We checked.

Friendly voice. Twenty years of form.

Proudly Ballsy

FOUR MILLION VIEWS

TWENTY YEARS OF PROPER TELLY

ONE PARTNER. NO HANDOFFS

STAFF FIRST. NO BULLIES

FILM IN SPAIN. WITHOUT LOSING THE PLOT

BRAVE ENOUGH TO EXPOSE THE WEINSTEINS

FAIRNESS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE TEAM

TURN UP WITH A CAMERA. WE’VE DONE THE REST

FACTUAL DEVELOPMENT. WE RAISE THE BAR

WE PROMISE TO CARE ABOUT OUR CREW

Twentyyears oftelly.Nowyours

Neverletgo

The exec who still does the work

Hire the knowledge Keep it forever

The 360 Two countries. One door.

UK

Spain

Day one to final frame

The bit nobody else can say

Great telly without killing anyone

Hire David

The cast,
served in small plates

We film
where others holiday

Marbella

Málaga

Sierra de las Nieves

Ronda

The
Midnight
Hour

One night. One call.

Filed under

Ballsy.tv

Spain and local discovery

UK television industry

Spain production services

Bear's attention-grabbing tags

Friendly voice. Twenty years of form.

Proudly Ballsy

FOUR MILLION VIEWS

TWENTY YEARS OF PROPER TELLY

ONE PARTNER. NO HANDOFFS

STAFF FIRST. NO BULLIES

FILM IN SPAIN. WITHOUT LOSING THE PLOT

BRAVE ENOUGH TO EXPOSE THE WEINSTEINS

FAIRNESS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE TEAM

TURN UP WITH A CAMERA. WE’VE DONE THE REST

FACTUAL DEVELOPMENT. WE RAISE THE BAR

WE PROMISE TO CARE ABOUT OUR CREW

Neverletgo

The exec who still does the work

Hire the knowledge Keep it forever

The 360 Two countries. One door.

UK

Spain

Day one to final frame

The bit nobody else can say

Great telly without killing anyone

Hire David

The cast,served in small plates

We filmwhere others holiday

Marbella

Málaga

Sierra de las Nieves

Ronda

TheMidnightHour

One night. One call.

Filed under

Ballsy.tv

Spain and local discovery

UK television industry

Spain production services

Bear's attention-grabbing tags

The cast,
served in small plates

We film
where others holiday

The
Midnight
Hour