Frederick Zammit

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Frederick Zammit hails from Malta and is the writer of Malta's most popular TV series Santa Monika, which was screened between October 2005 and March 2006. The second series has been aired from October 2006, with a third scheduled for October 2007.

Zammit, born on April 20, 1970, has been working in the media since 1986. His first contributions to local media was with the TV guide GWIDA, Malta's oldest television publication. He also used to contribute articles in the music magazine Far Out!

In 1990 he joined the editorial team of the magazine GWIDA on full time basis where he worked as assistant editor for 10 years.

In 1998, Frederick Zammit started collaborating with another company, Image 2000 Ltd and together created the successful IR-RAFF monthly magazine.

In 2000 he joined Max Plus, a cable channel that operated for a couple of years.

After Max Plus closed down, Frederick Zammit joined media.link Communications to work as Public Relations Executive of their television station Net TV as well as editor of the new magazine Life & Style.

On television he contributed on Weekend Breakfast (Max Plus), L-Isfida (Net TV), Malta International TV Song Festival (One Television), Mid-Dinja ta' L-Ispettaklu (Net TV, during the daily programme Sijju) and others.

In 2004 Frederick Zammit was promoted to Head of Commercial Publications within the same company and a year later become Net TV's new Head of Programmes.

In 2003 Frederick Zammit introduced the first Eurovision Song Contest weekly television series and has each year produced a similar programme. In both 2003 and 2005 the series, Lejn il-Eurovision, was hosted by Claudette Pace, himself a Eurovision participant having placed 8th in 2000 with Desire. In 2004 the show, 50 Eurovision was hosted by Marica Mizzi.

His latest venture, Santa Monika, proved extremely popular with local viewers starting off with 75,000 viewers and having ended with 93,000 viewers in March.

One survey, done by Malta's Sunday publication Malta Today, featured on its front page that Santa Monika was the most popular television programme on the island. Image 2000 reached another agreement with Zammit to script more episodes for the coming years.

[edit] Career

1985-1986

regular contributor on Far Out! Magazine (until 1986)

1986–1987, 1989-1990, 2001-2002

regular contributor on Gwida TV Magazine (before and after full time employment in 1990)

1990-2001

Assistant editor Gwida TV Magazine (MPS Limited)

1998

Scripts for Il-Widna, a weekly entertainment news slot shown during Filghodu ma' Antonella on One Television

1998-1999

PR - Ipokriti (Bonaci Brothers, TVM)

1999

PR Malta International Song Festival (One Television)

1999-2004

Regular contributor on Ir-Raff Magazine (Image 2000 Ltd)

2000

Produced Weekend Breakfast on Max Plus

Script for Marru l-Ewropa – Past winners of the Maltese festival for Eurovision

Scripted daily almanac for Sellili (Max Plus)

2001-2002

PR and programming Max Plus

2002

Scripted daily almanac for C'est La Vie (Max Plus)

Regular guest on Pop In (TVM), a weekly television series promoting new singers, as well as briefing viewers with the latest Eurovision Song Contest updates

Regular guest on C'est La Vie (Friday’s edition) on a weekly slot on the Eurovision Song Contest

2003

media.link Communications

Editor of Life & Style Magazine)

2004

Researched and scripted Lejn il-Eurovision, an eight part weekly series on the Eurovision Song Contest. Shown on Net TV, (Cliche & Media Entertainment Ltd)

PR Miss Tourism Europe – modelling competition (Exotic Promotions)

Scripts for Mid-Dinja ta' l-Ispettaklu, a weekly entertainment news slot during Sijju on Net TV (Image 2000 Ltd)

Head Commercial Publications

2005

Producer 50 Eurovision - A weekly 1 hour show providing all the latest news on the Eurovision Song Contest in May 2005. Net TV (Image 2000 Ltd)

Producer Hotspot (Net TV)

Script writer of Santa Monika

Chairman Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza (Independence Festival)

Head of Net TV programmes

2006

Producer of Lejn il-Eurovision

Nominated for Best Script at the first edition of the Malta Television Awards

Chairman Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza (Independence Festival)

Script writer Santa Monika series 2

2007

Executive Producer Lejn il-Eurovision airing on Net TV from January-May every Friday

Scripting the third series of Santa Monika, to be aired in October 2007.