Jane Loughman - Biography

Jane was born and raised in central London, living above the Westminster Theatre -- a West End theatre managed by her father, 'Don Loughman' / 'Donald G. Loughman'. After getting her degree at the University of Aberdeen (alongside 5 News reporter 'Catherine Jones' (IV) and producer 'Matthew Gordon' (VI)); she started out in television as a runner at 'Capricorn Programmes' in London, working on _Movies, Games, Videos_ (1992-) and _Cybernet_ (1995-2008).

That led to 12 years producing, writing and reporting for various international entertainment, news, and reality shows. Jane started out in the UK, ultimately producing the weekly entertainment series _Movies, Games, Videos_ (1992-) for the ITV network. She also developed "Blast" for TCC, _Not Fade Away_ (1996) for ITV and "Inside Hollywood" - relocating the production to Los Angeles. From 2000-2004 she worked for E! Entertainment as a producer of _E! News Live_ (1996-) - where she was responsible for creating the live location shoots that set the news magazine show apart from their network rivals. Next she co-created, produced and reported for the internationally syndicated, weekly, magazine show "Hollywood Boulevard"; then served as Series Producer for Paramount Television's UK edition of _Entertainment Tonight_ (1981). During this time Jane worked with everybody who's anybody in Hollywood - from 'Johnny Depp' to 'Tim Burton', 'Ringo Starr' to 'LL Cool J', 'Keira Knightley' to Kermit and Gonzo...

Her first independent feature film production, _A Dog's Breakfast_ (2007) was written and directed by her husband, 'David Hewlett', and was shot during hiatus from the series _Stargate: Atlantis_ (2004), on which Hewlett starred as the arrogant astrophysicist, Dr Rodney McKay. "A Dog's Breakfast" was produced for just $125K, and was released by MGM/20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, subsequently grossing over $1.3 million on DVD and digital download. Their second feature collaboration is _Debug_ (2014), featuring Hewlett's "Atlantis" co-star 'Jason Momoa'.

Loughman and Hewlett continue to work together at their production company "Monkeys & Parrots", developing a varied slate of both scripted and documentary features and television.