Drama. He created, developed and executive produced 30 local productions including Balls of Steel Australia which became The Comedy Channel's highest ever rating series and won the Astra Award for Most Outstanding Light Entertainment Programme. Chau led both the Comedy Channel and 111 Hits to record ratings years, also winning fourteen Promax Awards, including the World Gold for best entertainment program campaign, and the national television Captioning Award. He created and produced the development initiative and reality TV format Comedy Gold which ran for two years, discovering talent such as Troy Kinne and uncovering programme concepts from talent including Jason Gann, Stephen Kearney (Friends, Los Trios Ringbarkus, Garbo (film)), Marty Fields and The Agony of Life series by Adam Zwar, as well as executive producing the eventual competition winner starring Colin Lane, Toby Truslove, Kitty Flanagan and Patrick Brammall. He has worked as a consultant for several broadcasters and production companies including making improvements to Millionaire Hot Seat which saw the programme help the Nine Network win the 6pm news ratings. In 2016, he was joined Discovery Networks Australia and New Zealand, ultimately being promoted to the executive leadership team and head of content, production & channels as the company’s content lead in the region and overseeing Discovery’s entire portfolio of channels across ANZ including the Discovery Channel (Australia), TLC (Australian TV channel), Investigation Discovery, HGTV, Living (New Zealand), Food Network (New Zealand), Travel Channel International, Animal Planet (Australia and New Zealand), Discovery Science and Discovery Turbo, in addition to overseeing the company’s full commissioned production slate and executive producing global hits including Aussie Gold Hunters airing in more than 135 countries and Outback Opal Hunters which was nominated for Best Documentary Series at the Screen Producers Australia Awards, and both commissioning and overseeing international formats including The Masked Singer NZ, Dancing with the Stars (New Zealand TV series), Heartbreak Island (TV series), The Block NZ and MasterChef New Zealand, in addition to local series including Match Fit, Patrick Gower: On series, David Lomas Investigates, and 7 Days (New Zealand game show). Chau has been responsible for significantly expanding and globalizing the company’s local production slate and instrumental in growing and transforming Discovery ANZ (now Warner Bros. Discovery) into a multi-genre, multi-platform, multi-market business launching new channels including creating free to air channel 9Rush as part of a joint venture between Discovery and Nine Entertainment. He has been a regular