Diederick Santer
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Diederick Santer is a British television producer. He is currently the Executive Producer of the popular BBC television soap opera EastEnders, with additional responsibility for developing younger skewing drama series and serials.
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 were 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.
Santer recently produced The Taming of the Shrew and the Bafta-nominated Much Ado About Nothing for BBC One, and filmed a lavish adaptation of Jane Eyre.
On 23 October 2006, Santer become the Executive Producer of EastEnders. His first episode as producer was transmitted on 5 January 2007.
