Sue Vertue started her working life as a Production Manager in the commercials world before joining Tiger Television in 1989. She began producing in 1991 and her credits at Tiger include: 9 of the 14 television programmes made of the internationally renowned comedy MR BEAN (ITV) which won many awards around the world, including an ACE and an Emmy; THE VICAR OF DIBLEY (BBC1), starring Dawn French (BAFTA nomination and Emmy winner 1998); HOSPITAL, a comedy starring Greg Wise and Bob Peck which was commissioned by Channel 5 for their opening night (Banff Award for Best Comedy 1998); GREAT RAILWAY JOURNEYS: HONG KONG TO ULAN BATAR (BBC1), presented by Clive Anderson; THE LAST ENGLISHMAN (BBC1), an hour long period drama starring Jim Broadbent (BAFTA nomination for Best Single Drama) and GIMME GIMME GIMME, the sitcom for BBC2 written by Jonathan Harvey, based on an idea by Sue Vertue and Jonathan Harvey and starring Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus (British Comedy Awards nomination 1999).

Sue left Tiger Aspect at the end of 1998 to produce COMIC RELIEF 1999 for the BBC (British Comedy Awards winner). This six hour live show broke all records for the amount of money raised on the night. In April 1999 Sue joined her mother Beryl Vertue's company Hartswood Films where she produced another series of GIMME, GIMME, GIMME (now in association with Tiger Aspect) - again frequently top of the BBC2 weekly ratings. Their first project together was the critically acclaimed hit BBC TV situation comedy COUPLING, produced by Sue and written by Steven Moffat, a fourth series of which was screened in 2005. Sue has also produced two series of Simon Nye's CARRIE & BARRY, two series of SUPERNOVA and the 6-part series FEAR, STRESS & ANGER for BBC2.