Sami Booth
Senior TV development consultant. 20 years on the commissioning side. I help producers build what gets greenlit
Work
20 years turning ideas into formats and getting them made.20 years developing funded television for New Zealand broadcasters, working directly with commissioners at TVNZ, TV3, and Sky. Available for development consulting and international collaboration.TV & Development
Head of Development, Screentime Banijay NZ, 2006–2019. Freelance development, casting, and production work across New Zealand since 2019, with a focus on funded formats, factual, and drama.Selected Credits — Drama Development
* Siege — Best One-Off Drama, NZ TV Awards 2012
* Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud
* Bloodlines
* How to Murder Your Wife
* Find My Killer
* Safe HouseSelected Credits — Producing & Story
* Moving Houses — Best Factual Series, NZ Screen Awards 2025 (Casting/Associate Producer)
* In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) — Best Children's Programme, NZ Radio & Podcast Awards 2024
* Heartbreak Island — Story Producer / Post-Production SupervisorSelected Credits — Development, Pitch & Funding
* Pound Pups to Dog Stars · I Am · Descent From Disaster · The Missing · Animal Files · Quimbo's Quest · Nine Lives · The Ex Best Thing · Kiwi & Cat: Mānawatia a Matariki · News 2 Me · Anika Moa Reunited · Taiohi Gods · Ake Ake Ake · When Bob Came · Crown Lynn: A Māori Story · Motuhaketanga · Once Were GardenersCareer spans Screentime Banijay, Imagination Television, Pango Productions, Rogue Productions, and TVNZ.
Savage Wallflower
Founder and creative director of Savage Wallflower — a luxury maximalist soft furnishings brand. Built and managed end-to-end: brand identity, website design and build, copywriting, product design, photography, social media strategy and e-commerce. View the store
Creative IP
Four distinct creative universes — each with their own world, characters, and visual identity.Vesperine
Victorian vigilante. Survivor. Living ghost. Adopted by her depraved uncle in the mid-1800s and abused by the men he invited in, Vesperine weaponised her appearance - skeleton makeup, coloured hair - until they feared her instead. She sent her uncle mad. Now she roams the moors with her pack of black hounds, a vigilante whose status among the living remains deliberately uncertain.
Biddy Flint
Orphaned at 13 - Biddy Flint was left to raise herself in a shark tank. She learnt the hard way in tower block poverty that survival requires cunning and resourcefulness.When trust is thin on the ground, family is everything; her family come with powerful jaws and unswerving loyalty. Which is lucky, because Biddy Flint has the worst of humanity on her doorstep.And someone has to take out the trash.
Savage Wallflower: A Brand Built Around a Character
Born into a cold, colourless world, she found sanctuary in an abandoned orangery and filled it with everything she'd been told was too much.Too bold. Too loud. Too maximalist.Savage Wallflower is the character at the heart of the brand that bears her name - a living philosophy that defiance is beautiful and beige is a moral failing.
Pequeno y Grande: A Philozoic Worldview
Two real dogs. A satirical universe. Alfred (Poodle X) and Hudson (Goldie X Smithfield) have been watching humans run the world and they have notes.
Contact Me
Available for remote consulting, creative collaboration and project work. If something here resonates - a format idea, a character universe, a brand story that needs building - get in touch.
Books & Writing
Three books. One novel. Two non-fiction.
Who We Kill — Sami Booth
A darkly intelligent thriller laced with grim humour. Buy here
The Ancients — Ambit Soho*
Ancient history for people with short attention spans. Spirituality, kick-ass women, health hacks, serial killers, bizarre food, cults — all the good stuff, none of the dry balls. Buy here
The Baking Soda Bible — Ambit Soho*
Everything a box of baking soda can do. Turns out it's a lot.
Buy here
*Ambit Soho is an anagram
