{{Short description|English film & TV producer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox person | birth_name = Geoff Deehan | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1952|06|14}} | birth_place = Norton, County Durham, England | occupation = Producer, writer, director | children = 2 }}
'''Geoff Deehan''' (born 14 June 1952) is a film and television producer who has worked on projects such as ''The Heist'' and ''Equinox''.<ref name="Internet Movie Data Base." /> He is also the creator and producer of the ''Plane Crash'' Documentary on Channel Four.<ref name="Channel Four." />
==Early life== Geoff Deehan was born on 14 June 1952 in Norton, County Durham. He left in 1970 to study electronics engineering at Sussex University.
==Career== Deehan spent 15 years working for the BBC as a television and radio producer and Head of Science Programmes during which time he developed such strands as Science Now and Medicine Now. In his role as Head of Factual Programmes with Union Pictures, which he joined in 1990, he produced a string of successful television documentaries for Horizon and Equinox at the BBC and Channel Four respectively. He produced a four-part series on the exotic people, places and animals of the Indonesian Archipelago which was aired on Sky and is the producer of Plane Crash, a documentary in which an international team of scientists, experts and elite pilots deliberately crash land a 170-seat Boeing 727 passenger jet to study the mechanics of a plane crash in real time. The Plane Crash received viewer figures of over 4 million and was nominated for a BAFTA in the Specialist Factual category in 2013.<ref name="BAFTA." /><ref name="Chester Chronicle." />
Deehan is a former 'Science Writer of the Year' and a Sony Award winner for his BBC programme, Medicine Now. As Executive Producer, he also won a Royal Television Society Award for his documentary, 'Losing it' about the effect of mental attitude upon sports performance.
Deehan is the successful author of two books, 'The Descent of Mind' and 'The Keys to Creativity,' considered by many to be the seminal publication on the subject. He is also the founder of The Media Training Company, a training organisation which coaches people to get the best out of media encounters and PR crises.<ref name="The Media Training Company." />
==Personal life== Deehan lives in Cheshire with his wife, Amanda.
==References== <references> <ref name="Internet Movie Data Base.">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1825275/|title=Geoff Deehan|website=IMDb}}</ref> <ref name="Channel Four.">{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/the-plane-crash|title=The Plane Crash - Channel 4 - Info - Press|website=www.channel4.com}}</ref> <ref name="BAFTA.">{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2013/television/specialist-factual|title=2013 Television Specialist Factual - BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref> <ref name="Chester Chronicle.">{{cite web|url=https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/cheshire-filmmaker-line-bafta-glory-5112232|title=Cheshire filmmaker in line for BAFTA glory at UK awards ceremony|first=Carmella de|last=Lucia|date=11 April 2013|publisher=}}</ref> <ref name="The Media Training Company.">{{Cite web |url=http://www.themediatrainingcompany.co.uk/about-us/our-team/geoff-deehan/ |title=Geoff Deehan | the Media Training Company |access-date=15 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005040615/http://www.themediatrainingcompany.co.uk/about-us/our-team/geoff-deehan/ |archive-date=5 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130904105015/http://www.themediatrainingcompany.co.uk/ The Media Training Company] *[http://www.sirenmedia.biz/who-we-are/ Siren Media]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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