Matthew Worthy
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| name = Matthew Worthy
| image = Matthew Worthy.jpg
| birth_place = England
| occupation = TV format creator, TV Executive Producer
| known_for = Joint Managing Director of Stellify Media
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Matthew Worthy is a British TV format creator and Executive Producer. He is also the Joint Managing Director of Stellify Media, alongside his creative and business partner, Kieran Doherty. Worthy & Doherty have co-created multiple entertainment formats - including the international formats Secret Fortune and Take The Money and Run - while working for UK independent production company Wild Rover Productions. In 2014 Worthy & Doherty launched the production company Stellify Media as a joint venture with Sony Pictures Television. Stellify Media is best known for successfully rebooting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with Jeremy Clarkson for ITV, and Blind Date with Paul O'Grady for Channel 5.
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Career
Worthy began his career at Granada Entertainment working as a researcher on Stars in Their Eyes, You've Been Framed and Celebrities Under Pressure. While working for Granada Kids on the show Jungle Run in 2005 – Worthy devised the show Scratch and Sniff's Den of Doom for CiTV.{{cite news |author=Irish Film and Television Network |date=2011-02-09 |title=ABC Says 'Take the Money and Run' |url=http://www.iftn.ie/equipment/generators/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4283648&tpl=archnews&force=1 |accessdate=2011-07-25}}
He joined Wild Rover Productions in 2006 to create the BBC One interactive quiz Get Smarter in a Week – and went on to consult on the international versions.{{cite news |author=IMDb |date=2010-04-07 |title=Wild Rover Discover 'Secret Fortune' |url=https://www.imdb.com/news/ni2003026/ |accessdate=2011-07-25}} Worthy worked in a creative partnership with Kieran Doherty at Wild Rover; together they created several international TV formats.{{cite web|author=Wild Rover Productions |year=2011 |title=Matthew Worthy |url=http://www.wild-rover.com/?post_type=people&p=19 |accessdate=2011-07-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719120223/http://www.wild-rover.com/?post_type=people&p=19 |archivedate=2011-07-19 }} Worthy was the Producer of the first two series of Secret Fortune for BBC One.{{cite web |author=BBC Programmes |date=2011-02-25 |title=Megan and Chris Face a £98,000 Question |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f9vm4 |accessdate=2011-07-25}}
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Category:British television writers