Jane Root

because

we we wanted to watch but i mean it's not it doesn't get doesn't give it a fighting chance does it that's uh that's the point i'm making um It was offered to BBC and Brydon was well in with Jane Root, the head of BBC2 at that point, who commissioned Marion and Geoff.

But she turned it down.

And Brydon said snidely in an interview, it's really difficult to get something away these days.

And Patrick oversees now everything from Black Mirror to Peaky Blinders, MasterChef, and Big Brother.

I also had Jane Root.

She's a veteran TV exec and producer.

Her company Newtopia is behind a lot of these celeb-driven docs, like Pole to Pole with Will Smith, Limitless with Chris Hemsworth, World War II with Tom Hanks.