Peter Bazalgette

Peter Bazalgette (born on 22 May 1953) is a British media expert who helped create the independent TV production sector in the UK and went on to be the leading creative figure in the global TV company Endemol. is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He is widely known as Baz.

He started with BBC News and produced and presented programs before founding his own company, Bazal, which created a series of hits for British TV including Ready Steady Cook, Changing Rooms and Ground Force. Ready Steady Cook is a BBC daytime TV cooking programme first aired in 1994. ... A changing room or dressing room is a room or enclosure in a clothing store where customers may try on clothes before purchasing them. ... The Ground Force Team From (L) Tommy Walsh, Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock. ...

In January 2005 Bazalgette became Chairman of Endemol UK and Creative Director of Endemol Group worldwide. He was responsible for shows like Big Brother and Deal or No Deal which were hits around the world, and led Endemol's digital entertainment strategy. During his time on the global board Endemol grew strongly and in 2005 it was launched on the Dutch stock exchange. Over the next eighteen months it trebled in value and was sold in 2007 for €3.2 billion. Endemol is a television production company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Netherlands, India, South Africa, Lebanon, Morocco, Philippines, Turkey and Australia among others. ... Big Sister may refer to: Big Brother as portrayed in the BBCs 1954 production of Nineteen Eighty-Four. ... Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which (launching the format) was produced by Dutch producer Endemol. ...

Bazalgette took a third class degree in Law at Cambridge University where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society. He started in BBC News and then worked on That's Life! as a researcher in the seventies. He later reported for several programmes and ran Epic, a corporate video company, and then Bazal which made shows for TV. In 1990, Bazal was acquired by Broadcast Communications which itself was absorbed by Endemol. In September 2007 it was announced that he was standing down from this position to assume the role of advisor.^[1] The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... The coat of arms for the Cambridge Union Society, which shares much in common with the coat of arms for the University of Cambridge. ... This article refers to the news department of the British Broadcasting Corporation, for the BBC News Channel see BBC News (TV channel). ... Thats Life! was a television magazine-style series on BBC between 1973 and 1994, presented by Esther Rantzen throughout the entire run, with various changes of co-presenters. ...

He co-wrote four books including The Food Revolution and You Don’t Have to Diet, is author of a study of the international TV formats business, Billion Dollar Game and is a regular speaker at global media events.

He is a former board member of Channel 4 and is a non-executive director of the market research company, YouGov. He is a board member of English National Opera and is deputy chairman of the UK's National Film and Television School. He lectures on media convergence and creativity. This article is about the British television station. ... YouGov is a British internet-based market research firm. ... The London Coliseum, home of English National Opera English National Opera (ENO), located at the London Coliseum in St. ... NFTS Logo The NFTS was established in 1971 and is based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, 25 miles west of London, and close to some of the UKs major film studios, such as Pinewood Studios, also in Buckinghamshire. ...

Peter Bazalgette is the great-great-grandson of 19th century civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette. Memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette on Victoria Embankment Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was one of the great English civil engineers of the Victorian era. ...

A distant cousin of Peter's, Edward Bazalgette, was the lead guitarist in the 1980s rock group the Vapors, whose hit "Turning Japanese" remains a popular one-hit wonder. Ed now works as a producer at the BBC, making history documentaries. In 2003, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) commissioned a seven part series of documentaries called The Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. Edward Bazalgette directed and produced the documentary The Sewer King which charted Sir Joseph Bazalgette's design and engineering of the London sewers. Peter Bazalgette presented a later show for channel Five (channel) called The Great Stink. Referring to his famous ancestor and contemporary reality TV programmes like Big Brother, QI host Stephen Fry remarked that Peter Bazalgette was undoing his great-grandfather's works by "pumping shit back into our homes." This article is about a band. ... The Vapors were a New Wave band from England that existed between 1979 and 1981. ... For other uses, see One hit wonder (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Five, launched in 1997, is the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue television channel to launch in the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see QI (disambiguation). ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, columnist, filmmaker and television personality. ...

He is married to intellectual property rights lawyer and bioethicist, Hilary Newiss, with whom he has two children.

References

External links

• Moneyweek profile
• Peter Bazalgette : Media Masterclass on Producing Television
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