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Diederick Santer

Diederick Santer
Born (1969-07-03) 3 July 1969 (age 47)
Cambridge, England
Residence London, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Occupation TV Producer
businessman
Years active 1996–present
Television EastEnders

Diederick Santer (born 3 July 1969) is a British television producer and is best known for his work on the popular BBC television soap opera EastEnders, a post which he assumed on 23 October 2006 and left on 1 March 2010. He is managing director of drama production company Lovely Day.

He is the son of the retired Anglican Bishop Mark Santer.

Santer graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in Psychology and the History and Philosophy of Science.

His TV career began in 1996 as a freelance script reader for United Productions before becoming script editor on the first two series of Where the Heart Is, and assistant script editor on Paul Abbott's ITV series Touching Evil.

Santer moved to Granada Television where he script-edited the first two series of A&E and The Last Train before joining BBC Drama Series and Serials in 2000, where he produced the first three series of Debbie Horsfield's hairdressing drama Cutting It, starring Sarah Parish and Amanda Holden. He also produced The Taming of the Shrew, the Bafta-nominated Much Ado About Nothing for BBC One, and a lavish adaptation of Jane Eyre.


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