Hot Shots 2025: Stacey Dickie

Talk about the fast track: Stacey Dickie graduated on a Monday and started work on her first TV show two days later.

Navigating dyslexia and dreaming of a TV career, she became the first member of her family to go to university. During her degree in Film and Media at Ulster University, she collared Stellify Media managing director Kieran Doherty at the Belfast Media Festival and convinced him to o er her work experience; two weeks later, she bridged her academic and nascent career as the indie’s first-ever intern.

From that Stellify show, Channel 5’s Celebs In Solitary, she moved to Afro Mic, where she spent three years doggedly honing Made In Belfast into a BBC3 commission and, in lockdown, developing the company’s first BBC2 show, B&B By The Sea.

Three years ago, Dickie moved to Glasgow to become an assistant producer on Raise the Roof Productions’ Love It Or List It. She was promoted to producer last year, and is now producer/ director, supported by a progression placement through Channel 4.

Her upwards trajectory has not surprised Raise the Roof executive producer Jonny Wharton. “Stacey has been an invaluable and integral part of the team and seeing her navigate the first few rungs of the senior editorial ladder, in such an unfazed fashion, is testament to her talent and character,” he says.

“The industry desperately needs talented people like Stacey, who is creative, hardworking, humble, caring and a role model to the younger members of our team.”

Dickie’s recent success is all the more remarkable given that she has been caring from afar for her mother, who was diagnosed last year with Lewy body dementia.