Peter Bazalgette
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Peter Bazalgette is Chairman of one of Britain’s biggest television and
new media production companies, Endemol UK. In 1990, he sold his
own company, Bazal, to the group.
Endemol UK specialises in multimedia entertainment, producing Big Brother, The Salon, The Gamesand Shattered for Channel 4 and Fame Academyand Restoration for the BBC. Peter devised BBC TWO’s Food & Drink, the UK’s longest running food show, in the early eighties and in the nineties came up with a number of innovative leisure shows including Ready Steady Cook, Changing Roomsand Ground Force.
Peter was awarded the Academy Fellowship by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2000, and Fellowship of the Royal Television Society in 2002. He gave the MacTaggart Lecture at 1998’s Edinburgh Television Festival and The Wheldon Lecture for the Royal Television Society in 2001.
Endemol UK specialises in multimedia entertainment, producing Big Brother, The Salon, The Gamesand Shattered for Channel 4 and Fame Academyand Restoration for the BBC. Peter devised BBC TWO’s Food & Drink, the UK’s longest running food show, in the early eighties and in the nineties came up with a number of innovative leisure shows including Ready Steady Cook, Changing Roomsand Ground Force.
Peter was awarded the Academy Fellowship by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2000, and Fellowship of the Royal Television Society in 2002. He gave the MacTaggart Lecture at 1998’s Edinburgh Television Festival and The Wheldon Lecture for the Royal Television Society in 2001.
