Sarah Lin­ton

Sarah is Head of Devel­op­ment at Instinct Pro­duc­tions. She joined the team in Nov 2023 from BBC Stu­di­os where she was Seni­or Devel­op­ment Pro­du­cer, with a slate focussed on scrip­ted com­edy drama. Pri­or to the BBC, Sarah was Devel­op­ment Exec­ut­ive at Kudos Film & Tele­vi­sion and worked on a mix­ture of drama and com­edy includ­ing TWO WEEKS TO LIVE and THEN YOU RUN FOR SKY, and DEEP WATER for ITV.

Sarah pre­vi­ously worked as Script Edit­or on the first series of dra­mat­ic thrill­er KILLING EVE. Pro­duced by Sid Gentle Films and writ­ten by FLEABAG cre­at­or Phoebe Wall­er-Bridge for BBC Amer­ica. Pri­or to KILLING EVE, Sarah script edited vari­ous dra­mas includ­ing ITV’s THE HAL­CY­ON (Left Bank Pic­tures), SKY’S LUCKY MAN and ITV’s DOWN­TON ABBEY (both Car­ni­val Films).

Sarah has also con­sul­ted for ABC as their UK Com­edy and Drama Scout, where her focus was on identi­fy­ing and track­ing excit­ing new writ­ing and dir­ect­ing talent.

Sarah pre­vi­ously worked in-house at Car­ni­val Films and NBC Uni­ver­sal. Dur­ing her time at Car­ni­val Sarah worked across the devel­op­ment slate and vari­ous pro­duc­tions includ­ing DOWN­TON ABBEY, THE WOR­RICK­ER TRI­LOGY, DRAC­ULA and WHITECHAPEL.