Colleagues have paid tribute to “brilliant” and “incredibly funny” producer and director Eleanor Scoones who has died from cancer at the age of 42.
The mother of two specialised in historical factual programmes and produced and directed numerous Lucy Worsley series.
She worked as a producer director for the likes of Twenty Twenty, Wall To Wall and Viacom International Studios, with recent credits including Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets (BBC Studios/ BBC4 and PBS), Our Victorian Christmas (Viacom/ Channel 5), A House Through Time (Twenty Twenty/ BBC2), and episodes of BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are (Wall To Wall) featuring Greg Davies, Lulu, Jack and Michael Whitehall, and Jodie Whittaker.
Scoones was always very clear about her ambitions to direct, according to BBC Storyville lead commissioning editor Emma Hindley.
“I met Eleanor on her first…
