 Coincidentally Christie was at both the National Youth Theatre and the University of Warwick with Dennis Waterman's daughter Hannah Waterman.In 2005 he produced the pilot episode of the sitcom "No Skillz" through his company Kayak Productions starring Stephen Merchant ("The Office", "Extras"), Karen Taylor ("The Sketch Show"), Tony MacMurray ("The Office", "Last Chancers") and Nicola Cotter ("The Office").In 2007 he directed two short films for filmaka.com "Ginger" and "SMS Kis"s and the educational DVD "Simply Pain".