Biography

As the BBC's controller of comedy commissioning, he cancelled The Wright Way (2013) and Heading Out (2013).

People feel passionate and that's good, but when people don't like a comedy they are very quick [to react] and I do worry in a world of social media and Twitter people are instantly saying, 14 seconds in, 'this is shit'. I think, 'come on, give it an episode at least'. We are living in that snap judgment world. A lot of things are loved retrospectively. Only Fools and Horses (1981) took two series before it bedded in.