Anna Coane
Anna is an award-winning TV producer and comedy writer whose first screenplay (a short, dark comedy) won a national screenplay award. Her comedy career began on Peep Show (C4) and she now has 20 years TV experience. With a background as a Series Producer and Edit Producer, she understands how TV is made from pitch to broadcast. She has made comedy (scripted and unscripted), entertainment shows, hidden camera, prank shows, panel shows, reality shows, archive formats, and lots of chat shows.
She has produced and written for some of the biggest names in UK comedy and entertainment including Frank Skinner, Omid Djalili, Alexander Armstrong, Julian Clary, Holly Walsh, Gemma Whelan, Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, Luke McQueen, Gabby Best, Jacob Edwards, Amy Gledhill, Rob Brydon, Josh Widdicombe, Russell Howard, Suzi Ruffell, Tom Allen, Julie Walters, Rob Lowe, Keith Lemon, Rick Edwards and more.
As well as working on comedy/entertainment shows, Anna is often hired to add comedy to unscripted TV formats. Recently Anna was writer on 8 episodes of ‘I Can Grow It’ for CBeebies, writing comedy scripts for presenter Aaron Roach-Bridgeman.
As Series Producer/Writer on ‘I Can Do It You Can Too’ (CBeebies) she wrote, script-edited, and oversaw delivery of 80 comedy scripts. The series won two RTS Midland Awards 2025.
She also wrote 20 episodes of ‘Meet The McQueens’, a kids part scripted/part reality comedy series for CBBC. She worked with The Dawson Bros to create scripts for ‘Don’t Ask Me Ask Britain’ (live comedy studio show for ITV), and ‘The Revengers’ (scripted comedy pilot for ITV), and with Dan Gaster to write ‘Keeping Up With The Kremlin’ (scripted comedy pilot for C4.0) which she also produced and directed.
She regularly collaborates with both established and emerging comedy talent to develop everything from sitcoms, comedy dramas, and sketches, to live comedy shows, comedian-led documentaries, comedy podcasts and digital comedy content.
She runs comedy writing/producing workshops and writer’s circles for Funny Women, and is a regular judge for the RTS Student Film Awards (comedy category).
Anna lives in South East London with her partner, two daughters, and two silly cats.
SELECTED TV CREDITS:
I Can Grow It, CBeebies
Rob Brydon’s Honky Tonk Road Trip, BBC2
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, BBC2
Julian Clary’s Greatest Christmas Adverts, C5
I Can Do It, You Can Too, CBeebies
Keeping Up With The Kremlin, C4
The Funniest Adverts On The Planet, Comedy Central
Meet The McQueens, CBBC
Tonight With Omid, BBC
Big Fat Like, CBBC
The Comedy Bus, Comedy Central
Frank Skinner On Demand, BBC iPlayer
Don’t Ask Me Ask Britain, ITV
Live At The Electric, BBC3
The Revengers, ITV
Russell Howard Stands Up To The World, Sky
The Big Bangs Biggest Bangs, E4
Saturday Kitchen, BBC
King Of The Nerds, Sky
Tool Academy, E4
Celebrity Big Brother, Channel 5
The Graham Norton Show, BBC
Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, ITV
Charlie Brooker’s 2010 Wipe, BBC
