The Directors

Shahana Meer Managing Director and Director of Production Lion Television Ltd Executive Vice President of Production (and Secretary), Lion Television Inc

Shahana Meer oversees all Lion productions. This involves running a company with more than 200 staff in London, overseeing the Interactive Division, and responsibility for Lion Scotland and Lion Television Inc.

Shahana is involved in every facet of production for Lion Television and has a 35-strong production team, a legal department and an accounts department directly accountable to her.

As Director of Production for all of Lion's programmes since 1997, Shahana has organised the making of over 920 hours of television. This includes responsibility for the innovative social experiment undertaken in Castaway 2000 (BBC1) on the desolate Hebridean island of Taransay, the USA based ground-breaking legal series Boston Law (WGBH/BBC1), the filming of Lawrence of Arabia in the UK and throughout the Middle East, the ambitious Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance, filmed on location in Italy and most recently Time Commanders (BBC2) a studio based high CGI content innovative approach to history.

Formerly Head of Production at Wall to Wall, she production managed a string of highly successful single documentaries and ongoing series for terrestrial and non-terrestrial broadcasters.