Julie Christie (producer)
Dame Julie Claire Molloy Christie is a New Zealand businesswoman and television producer. She is the Founder and former CEO of international television company Touchdown Productions, acquired by Dutch media company Eyeworks in 2006, and then later sold to Warner Bros.
After a decade as a sports sub-editor in newspapers, Christie found herself working as a researcher for television heavyweight Neil Roberts at Communicado production house. She started her own company, Touchdown Productions, in 1991.
Touchdown became a major exporter of television formats to 29 countries, most notably the gameshow The Chair for ABC in the US and the BBC, and the reality gameshow Treasure Island.
In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to television, and in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours she was promoted to Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to governance and the television industry.
