Frederick Zammit

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, herself a Eurovision participant having placed 8th in 2000 with Desire. In 2004 the show, 50 Eurovision was hosted by Marica Mizzi. In 2007 the series was hosted by Marica Mizzi for the first four programmes. The fifith programme was hosted by Marica Mizzi and Claudette Pace, who carried on with the series till the end of season. In 2008, Louise Tedesco hosted the 12 special programmes aired daily in May.

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.

The third season of "Santa Monika" started on Net TV in October 2007. Due to its success, the third season was contracted to run until June 2008, totaling 33 episodes for the season. In all three seasons, "Santa Monika" consisted of 68 episodes, thus being Net Tv's longest running drama series.

Onca again, Frederick Zammit was involved with the "Lejn il-Eurovision" tv series, broadcast daily from 20.30 on Net Tv from May 12 and also did the daily links from Serbia to Net TV for that year.

Zammit was also reconfirmed chairman of the 2008 Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza.

While "Santa Monika" ends its run on Net Tv on June 23, it has been announced that Zammit will be scripting the cinema feature to be released locally in January 2009.

Career

;1985-1986:regular contributor on "Far Out!" Magazine (until 1986);1986–1987, 1989-1990, 2000 -2002, 2008 -:regular contributor on "Gwida TV" Magazine (before and after full time employment in 1990);1990-2000: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.

;2008:Nominated for Best Script (Santa Monika) at the second edition of the Malta Television Awards:Consultant to the production "Lejn il-Eurovision" broadcast daily on Net TV from 12 May 2008:Daily links from Serbia to Net Tv for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest:Chairman - "Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza 2008":Regular contributor on the weekly tv guide, Gwida.:Begins Scripting the cinema version of Santa Monika, to premier in January 2009:Appointed as part of the Eurosong Advisory Team