Will Smith

Director of Programmes

RDF Television

“We called Casting House in on a fast turnaround production for Channel 4 and they did a great job finding strong contributors under extreme time pressure. They understood our needs and worked professionally and quickly to cast the pilot series. With their help the pilot run has now been converted in to a big order series. I’d have no hesitation in recommending Charlie Clare and his team.”

Tim Whitwell - Editor, Documentaries and Features, Executive Producer of Heston's Feast's and SP of Kitchen Nightmares

Optomen Television

"Using Casting House made the whole production so much easier. The series was a difficult casting of wealthy people for a character driven makeover show.   Casting House was pre-prepared and planned intelligently for the job ahead.  By then end of the first week we had a board full of possible contributors.  Charlie makes the way we cast shows more efficient and a lot quicker.  I’ll use Casting House again."

Ian Warr

Director

Eyebright Media

Charlie and the Casting House helped us with a high profile but tight turnaround advertising project, drawing up an excellent casting list in less than two weeks (including two bank holidays). Very friendly, incredibly polite and endlessly helpful. We definitely want to work with him again.

Sean Moxhay

Unit Manger

Optomen

I would say that based on other series the casting on this was very slick and completed in very good time.  I honestly believe [most] Commissioning Editor’s would have been impressed with the variety and level of contributor you found for us, and the time in which you found people resulted in a saving based on the originally anticipated casting period.

Rita Daniels
Series Producer, World’s Strictest Parents

Twenty Twenty Television

Casting House… “was given a week to produce contributors which had a
particularly difficult set of criteria. He found us a collection
of super ace teenagers who feature in our successful series -
World's Strictest Parents. He was fast, thorough and had great
judgement. Charlie's number is now on our speed dial.”

Christine Butler

Producer, Embarrasing Bodies

Maverick Television

"I wanted to say thanks for saving our bacon on Sunday night.  When I left the message to ask if you had a potential back-up contributor, I didn’t actually expect that you would have one – nor that they would be willing at 11:30pm to drop everything and come to London for the shoot.  As it turned out she was a really good speaker, very lovely girl and said how pleased she was that she’d come.  Once again a sterling casting job!"

Sarah Eglin

Executive Producer, Embarrassing Bodies

Maverick Television

"Casting House took on a seemingly impossible task for us with a casting challenge which we’d been struggling with for months – for a reasonable fee they managed to find cases for us – achieving the seemingly impossible."

Holly Davies

Head Of Development 

Renegade Pictures

"Renegade Pictures needed casting for two pilots.  The briefs were difficult and specific with a tight turnaround and very limited budget. Casting House delivered on both – they understood the brief and gave us exactly what we wanted.  It was simple and effective.  We would definitely recommend their services."

Sam Anthony
Executive Producer, Factual Commissioning
BBC

"Charlie's reputation as a Casting AP came from his time on the top daily chat shows and at RDF Media. I tasked him with an almost impossible job of finding women who were both desperate to be reunited with their long lost childhood sweethearts, and happy to be filmed for two weeks whilst they gave the relationship another chance! He came through, and we made a great show that I'm very proud of. I was so impressed that I promoted him to producer/ director and have worked with him several times since, on shows like Project Catwalk and Don't Tell The Bride- shows that are entirely casting dependent, and rely on superior people-handling skills to keep that cast on-side. Charlie finds great contributors, and once he's found them he knows how to hang on to them, and get the very best from them."

Nick Shearman

Commissioning Editor, Factual Formats and Features

BBC

"I worked with Charlie on two series of Holiday Showdown, one of the trickiest casting jobs I've come across in 25 years of TV - casting two directly opposing families who have children of similar ages with very different holiday plans, while maintaining the variety that a long-running hit show requires, was an enormous undertaking. Charlie always seemed to pull rabbits out of hats - well, families - and managed to do so with enormous coolness under huge pressures of time and money. He is definitely one of the best casting producers I've come across and was a key part of the Holiday Showdown team during the peak of its glory years, when it won an RTS and was nominated for a BAFTA. He's someone I'd not hesitate to turn to again for casting and someone who has proved himself to be utterly and phenomenally reliable."

Julia Waring

Head of Production Talent

RDF Television

"I can only endorse what Nick Shearman has said about Charlie in terms of his casting skills.  During the times when we were lucky enough to employ him at RDF Television, Charlie was hugely valued for his talent at casting.  He is such a warm and genuine person; his emotional intelligence and sincere interest in people made him the ideal person to cast any show.  The SP could have complete faith that Charlie would have understood the brief, and that the potential contributors which he shortlisted and put forward were viable.  On this basis, there couldn’t be a more appropriate person to have started a casting service for the industry."