Henry Imbert is an English television director and producer who was the lead series producer for Series 9 and 10 of Robot Wars, a role he shared with Kirsten Highet.
Robot Wars[]
Henry Imbert replaced Matt Wilkinson as the series producer following Series 8. He had previously began working for Mentorn Scotland in January 2016, around the time of the annoucement of the show's return. Imbert's production differed from Wilkinson's, including different lighting for the battles and new graphics for the robot statistics board. Overall, Imbert's approach to the production of the show was more well-received by fans, with praise especially going to the lighting during the battles as an improvement, with people now saying that they were able to see the battles much better, and the camera work also being much better as it captured more of the dramatic moments in the battles that were not shot as well in the previous series.
Imbert was the producer for the last two series of the rebooted Robot Wars, sharing it with Kirsten Highet, therefore being a co-producer for the show.
Outside Robot Wars[]
Imbert (far-right) with Robo Challenge and Spectre on King of Bots
Imbert was born in London and graduated from Middlesex University in 2007 with a BA Honours in Television Production. Following this, he would work his first job at Endemol in 2008 in the digital video branch. Imbert would then work for various media companies, including ITV and The Guardian, before joining Mentorn in 2016. Imbert has worked as producer for shows such as Big Brother, Britain's Got Talent and The Paul O'Grady Show.
Imbert has some experience in the robot combat industry himself. On 13 March, 2017, Imbert was a guest on an Inside The Bot podcast along with James and Grant Cooper of Robo Challenge. In the podcast, Imbert talked with Gabriel Stroud and Will Bales about the new rule changes being introduced for Series 9 and what new things were going to be introduced for the series.[1] Imbert also joined Robo Challenge to enter the Chinese show King of Bots with Spectre, which would win the first season of the show, also competing in This is Fighting Robots with a rebuilt version, as well as the 2019 season and King of Bots II.
In May 2018, Imbert and fellow Robot Wars personnel, executive producer Andrew Robertson, partnered together to create their own independent production company, named Very Nice TV, which is based in Glasgow. Imbert is the creative director and Robertson is the managing director.[2]