Stephen Lambert
Stephen Lambert is one of Britain's best known creative television executives, responsible for creating award-winning shows such as Secret Millionaire, Faking It and Wife Swap. He is the chief executive of Studio Lambert, a fast growing independent production company based in London and Los Angeles. His most recent hit format is Undercover Boss, which his company is producing for CBS in America and Channel 4 in the UK. Studio Lambert is part of All3Media, Britain's largest group of independent television producers.
Prior to setting up Studio Lambert in 2008, Lambert was the chief creative officer of the RDF Media Group. For nine years he spearheaded its editorial development as it grew rapidly in both Britain and America. In 2005, it floated on the AIM market.
Lambert began his career in 1993 at the BBC where he worked for fifteen years making documentaries in many of the world’s most troubled places in the 1980s and 90s; from Sri Lanka, Croatia and South Africa, to Kuwait, Gaza and northern Iraq. In the early 1990s, he produced and directed an observational documentary series inside the British Foreign Office.
In 1994, he founded the ground-breaking BBC2 documentary strand Modern Times, which he ran for four years as a home for authored, innovative, contemporary documentaries. He has executive produced several award-winning BBC documentary series including The Mayfair Set, The System, The Power of Nightmares and The Century of the Self.
He lives in London with his wife, Jenni Russell, a columnist for the Guardian and Sunday Times, and their two children.
Share