{"id":665,"date":"2020-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/?p=665"},"modified":"2020-02-28T03:03:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T03:03:26","slug":"biggest-break-greatest-mistake-heather-hawthorn-doyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/biggest-break-worst-mistake\/biggest-break-greatest-mistake-heather-hawthorn-doyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Break \/ Greatest Mistake: Heather Hawthorn Doyle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What was the biggest break in your TV career?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since this is for Field &amp; Post I\u2019ll stick to the unscripted side of my career. In that world the biggest break had to be walking into Force Four for a meeting to talk about directing season 2 of \u201cShopping Bags\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;During the meeting more and more people kept walking into the interview and by the end there must have been half a dozen people in front of me. They were asking questions about producing and managing a team and running a show, super intense for a directing interview. It turned out their series producer had quit the day before and without me knowing, they were interviewing me for the series producer position. By the end of the meeting I had the job and ended up producing over 90 episodes of Shopping Bags and many series after that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What has been your greatest mistake in your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was running the lifestyle division at Omni and we were in production on \u201cWord Travels\u201d for OLN and \u201cSmart Cookies\u201d for W Network, when HGTV asked me if I wanted to Exec Produce a new, environmentally-friendly design show they were creating.&nbsp;&nbsp;We had just finished \u201cShe\u2019s Crafty\u201d for them and it went super well so I was excited to say yes! Imagine &#8211; I didn\u2019t have to pitch them &#8211; they pitched me! We immediately went into development and looked for a Vancouver-based host, but it was Toronto\u2019s Samantha Pynn who was the overwhelming favourite. The hitch was she didn\u2019t want to shoot in Vancouver, so we ended up producing the show in Toronto. At that point I should have said no, we couldn\u2019t do it.&nbsp;&nbsp;I didn\u2019t have the same contacts in Toronto I had in Vancouver, so although I made some great hiring decisions, I also made some really poor ones. And I ended up spending so much time in Toronto during the early episodes that my family and I suffered. But my biggest regret is that Samantha didn\u2019t have the nurturing environment a new host should have had \u2013 so for me, saying yes to producing Pure Design in Toronto when I was based in Vancouver has been my biggest mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was the biggest break in your TV career? Since this is for Field &amp; Post I\u2019ll stick to the unscripted side of my career. In that world the biggest break had to be walking into Force Four for a meeting to talk about directing season 2 of \u201cShopping Bags\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;During the meeting more and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}