Forging transatlantic formats successes

Burgess is a 10-year veteran with top unscripted prodco Studio Lambert, having ran its unscripted development department in the UK for four years before crossing the ocean to its U.S. office in 2018. Now based in Los Angeles, he has oversight on development and production on all of the company's U.S. output. This past year, that output enjoyed substantial success via the Emmy-winning Studio Lambert adaptation of smash format The Traitors for Peacock, more episodes of the structured reality hit The Circle for Netflix, and newer entries such as business competition series Buy It Now for Prime Video and USA Network's The Anonymous. Barry Walsh

What's the dream project you'd like to get on the air?

"The biggest shows in unscripted have almost always been performance competitions and I'd love to develop a show that reimagines that genre for a streaming audience."