- Graham Norton
Graham Norton, (born Graham Walker on 4 April 1963 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actor, comedian and television presenter. He achieved fame as a broadcaster on Britain's Channel 4 and also through his role as Father Noel Furlong in the critically acclaimed television series "Father Ted". Though he only appeared in three episodes, Norton's performance as Father Noel proved extremely popular with viewers.
- Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais (born June 25, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. Gervais found mainstream fame with his BBC Two television programme "The Office" and the series Extras which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and collaborator, Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras.
- Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate is an English comedienne and actress best known for her BBC Two sketch comedy series, "The Catherine Tate Show". Following its success, Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of "Doctor Who" and is now set to reprise the role to become the Doctor's companion throughout series four in 2008. She has won numerous awards for her work on "The Catherine Tate Show" and has been nominated for a BAFTA and Emmy Award.
- James May
James Daniel May (born January 16th 1963 in Bristol, England) is a television presenter. He is best known as co-presenter of motoring programme "Top Gear" alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. He also writes a weekly column for "The Daily Telegraph's" motoring section. On "Top Gear", May is often referred to as "Captain Slow", …
- Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr (born 31 July 1959, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British journalist and political commentator. He edited "The Independent" for two years, until May 1998, and was the political editor for the BBC from 2000 until 2005. He then began hosting a political programme called "Sunday AM" on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005 onwards. In May 2007 he began a new political history series on BBC Two, "Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain".
- Roly Keating
Roland "Roly" Keating is the current controller of British television channel BBC Two as of June 2004, succeeding Jane Root. He read Classics at Balliol College. He joined the BBC in 1983. He was a producer and director for the Arts and Music department, making programmes for Omnibus, Bookmark (1992-7) and Arena. He was a producer and later became editor of The Late Show. In 1997, he became head of programming for UKTV.
- Michael Jackson
Michael Richard Jackson (born February 11 1958) is a British television producer and executive. He is notable for being one of only three people to have been Controller of both BBC One and BBC Two, the main television channels of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and for being the first media studies graduate to reach a senior level in the British media. He was also the Chief Executive of another major British television station, Channel 4, between 1997 and 2001.
- Jane Tranter
Jane Tranter (born March 17, 1963 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK) is a British television drama executive, who as of September 2006 is the "Head of Fiction" at BBC television. In this capacity she oversees the corporation's output in drama and comedy, as well as films and programmes acquired from overseas, across all television channels. After studying English Literature at King's College London and taking a secretarial course back in Oxford, …
- Gavin Esler
Gavin Esler (born Glasgow, February 27, 1953) is a BBC television presenter. Gavin Esler is currently one of the five main presenters on BBC Two's flagship political analysis programme, "Newsnight". He joined the programme in January 2003, replacing Jeremy Vine, who left to take over from Jimmy Young on Radio 2. Esler also presents "Dateline London" most Sunday mornings at 11am on BBC News 24. The programme is also broadcast on BBC World.
- Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat (born 1961 in Paisley, Scotland) is a British comedy/drama writer who has contributed to television series since the late 1980s. He is married to Sue Vertue, a television producer.
- Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob (born March 11, 1947) is a British television executive. He was born into a Jewish family in London, and was educated at The King's School, Ely. After initially joining the BBC as a trainee in the BBC World Service in 1968 he has spent his entire professional career with the Corporation. In 1973 he became a producer and director working on the high-profile documentary series "Omnibus", …
- Martha Kearney
Martha Catherine Kearney (born October 8 1957) is a British broadcaster and journalist. Kearney was raised in an academic environment in Sussex and Edinburgh; her father, the historian Hugh Kearney, taught at the universities there. She was educated at Brighton and Hove High School, a girls' independent school in Brighton, and at George Watson's College, a co-educational independent school in Edinburgh. She later read Classics at St Anne's College, Oxford (1976-80).
- Christine Bleakley
Christine Bleakley (born in Northern Ireland, UK) is an entertainment reporter who became known for her work in her native NI, hosting a number of shows. "Skyhigh", "First Stop", as well as "Would You Pass The Eleven Plus" and "Town Challenge". Outside of Northern Ireland, she is known mostly for co-hosting the BBC Two talent show "Let Me Entertain You".
- Alex Cox
Alexander Cox (b. December 15, 1954) is a British film director and sometime actor, well known for his idiosyncratic style and scripts. His film "Repo Man" is often credited as one of the first truly independent movies. It was this film that brought him critical acclaim. Alex Cox was born in Bebington, Wirral, Nr. Liverpool, Merseyside. (Interestingly, the Wirral produced another major British film director in Charles Crichton.
- Phill Jupitus
Phill Jupitus (born 25th June 1962) is an English comedian and broadcaster. He is a regular on television and radio panel shows, including BBC Radio 4's "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" and BBC Two/BBC Four's "QI", and is a team captain on BBC Two's "Never Mind The Buzzcocks". He was also a team captain on the BBC's television comedy panel show "It's Only TV But I Like It" in 1999.
- Julie Gardner
Julie Gardner is a Welsh television producer who is currently both Controller of Drama Commissioning at BBC Television and Head of Drama for BBC Wales. Her most prominent work has been serving as executive producer on the 2005 revival of "Doctor Who". Gardner was born in Neath in June 1969, and grew up in Glynneath. She attended Neath Tertiary College and read English at the University of London. She initially worked as a teacher at GCSE and A-Level level, …
- Jane Root
Jane Root (born May 18 1957) was the controller of BBC Two from 1999 until 2004, when she left to work for Discovery Networks in the United States. She replaced Mark Thompson was replaced in turn by Roly Keating. She was the first woman ever to be a channel controller for the BBC, and was responsible for the cancellation of the Lee and Herring show "TMWRNJ" and If I Ruled the World, pulling "The Simpsons" and People Like Us, …
- Ray Stubbs
Ray Stubbs (born Wallasey, Merseyside, 1956) is a broadcaster and former footballer. He currently works for BBC Sport presenting Final Score as well as the coverage of snooker and darts. He occasionally presents Match of the Day, Match of the Day 2 and 6-0-6 on Five Live. Ray also presented Football Focus between from 1999 until 2004 as well as other BBC sports programmes such as Grandstand and Sportsnight.
- Neil Oliver
Neil Oliver (born Ayr, 1971) is a Scottish archaeologist, historian, author and broadcaster, known for his distinctive voice and long black hair. He grew up in Ayr and Dumfries before attending Glasgow University to study archaeology. He is best known as the presenter of the documentary series, "Coast".
- Reggie Yates
Reginald "Reggie" Yates (born 31 May 1983 in Archway, London, England) is an English actor, television presenter and radio DJ.
- Evan Davis
Evan Robert Davis (born April 8 1962 in Ashtead, Surrey) is a British economist and journalist; he has been the BBC's economics editor since October 2001, replacing Peter Jay. He attended The Ashcombe School, Dorking, and later Davis studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St John's College, Oxford from 1981 to 1984 and obtained an MPA at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
- Alan Bleasdale
Alan Bleasdale (born March 23, 1946 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, brought up in Huyton) is an English television dramatist, best known for several social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people.
- Nicholas Crane
Nicholas Crane (born 1954, Norfolk) is a British explorer, writer and broadcaster. Most recently, he has written and presented two television series for BBC Two. He grew up in Norfolk. He went to Wymondham College from 1967 until 1972, then went to Oxford University In 1986, he located the Pole of inaccessibility for the Eurasia landmass travelling with his cousin Richard; their journey being the subject of the book "Journey To The Centre Of The Earth".
- Chris Langham
Christopher Langham (born 14 April 1949) is a British writer and comedian. He is most famous for playing presenter Roy Mallard in "People Like Us", first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is almost entirely an unseen character. He subsequently created several spoof adverts in the same vein.
- Peter Snow
Peter Snow CBE (born April 20, 1938 in Dublin, Ireland) is a British television and radio presenter. He is the cousin of Jon Snow, the main presenter of "Channel 4 News", and the brother-in-law of historian-writer Margaret MacMillan. He was educated at Wellington College and subsequently read Greats at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he was taught by R.M. Hare. Snow was a newscaster for Independent Television News (ITN) from the 1960s, …
- Andrew Graham-Dixon
Andrew Michael Graham-Dixon (born December 26 1960) is a British art historian, and broadcaster. After attending Westminster School, Graham-Dixon read English at Oxford University, graduating in 1981, before pursuing doctoral studies at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Graham-Dixon began work as a reviewer for the weekly "Sunday Correspondent", before being promoted to chief art critic of "The Independent" newspaper until 1998, …
- Helen Boaden
Helen Boaden is the current director of BBC News. This role incorporates controlling all of the BBC's news output across all formats along with current affairs documentaries including programmes such as "Newsnight" and "Panorama". Boaden was born in Colchester, Essex on March 1 1956, and grew up in Essex. She went to school at the Colchester County High School for Girls. She studied at the University of Sussex, gaining a BA Hons in English Literature.
- Dominic Littlewood
Dominic John Littlewood (born 29 March 1965) is a TV presenter and former car dealer from Essex. Littlewood worked in the new and used car business in Essex, and set up his own business in the late 1980s. Littlewood made his first TV appearance on Channel 4's "Faking It" teaching a vicar how to be a second-hand car dealer in just one month. However, because of increasing media commitments he closed his car business in 2002.
- Matthew MacFadyen
Matthew Macfadyen (born October 17, 1974) is a British actor, best known for his role as MI5 agent Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series "Spooks" and for starring as Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 2005 film version of "Pride and Prejudice". After having studied at the renowned Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts from 1992 to 1995, Matthew Macfadyen quickly became a well-known actor in British theatre, due primarily to his work with the stage company Cheek by Jowl, …
- Richard Thomas
Richard Thomas is a musician, writer, and comedy actor. He is best known for composing and scoring the award-winning "Jerry Springer - The Opera" with Stewart Lee. Thomas collected the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Score in 2004. Richard Thomas's comedy career began in 1987, doing a musical act on keyboards. In 2000, he wrote and performed a one-act opera called "Tourette’s Diva" with four actors, which aired at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
- Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes (born 1 January 1977 in London) is an English actress, best known for her role as Zoe Reynolds in the BBC One drama series "Spooks" (2002-2004). She has also appeared in a number of other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's "Karaoke" (BBC One / Channel 4, 1995), and "Othello" (ITV, 2001).
- The Hairy Bikers
Dave Myers (Barrow-in-Furness) and Simon 'Si' King (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), collectively known as The Hairy Bikers, are British TV presenters who have fronted the series "The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook" (2005-6) and "The Hairy Bikers Ride Again" (2007) for BBC Two. Both bikers have a background in TV and film production. Myers is a professional make-up artist, specialising in prosthetics, …
- Jesse Armstrong
Jesse Armstrong is one of the co-creators (with Sam Bain) of Channel 4's "Peep Show". He also co-wrote the BBC Four comedy "The Thick of It" and was one of the writers on series 1 and 2 of the BBC Radio 4 sketch show "That Mitchell and Webb Sound" (2003 & 2005) and the BBC Two sketch show "That Mitchell and Webb Look". He comes from Oswestry in Shropshire, England.
- Sam Bain
Sam Bain is one of the co-creators (with Jesse Armstrong) of Channel 4's "Peep Show". He was also one of the writers of two series of the BBC Radio 4 sketch show "That Mitchell and Webb Sound" (2003 & 2005) and the BBC Two sketch show "That Mitchell and Webb Look". He also wrote the novel "Yours Truly, Pierre Stone", published by I.M.P.Fiction in 2002 and is a graduate of Manchester University, where he met Jesse Armstrong.
- Peter Horrocks
Peter Horrocks (born 1959) is the Head of Television News at the BBC. Peter joined the BBC in October 1981 as a news trainee. He went on to work for "Newsnight" as an assistant producer and then producer. After working as a senior producer, intake editor and output editor on "Breakfast Time" (now "Breakfast"), he became deputy editor of "Panorama" in 1988. In 1992, Peter edited the BBC's television election night results programme.
- Esther Rantzen
Esther Louise Rantzen CBE (born on) is an English journalist and television presenter who is best known for her long stint in "That's Life!" and her anti-paedophile activism activities as founder of the charity ChildLine.
- Kathy Sykes
Professor Kathy Sykes (born 1966) is a British physicist and academic, who has held the post of Collier Chair For Public Engagement in Science and Engineering at the University of Bristol since 2001. She makes frequent appearances on British television and radio, including being one of the scientists on the Open University/BBC Two challenge show "Rough Science" and a team captain on BBC Four's puzzle panel game, "Mind Games".
- Russell Davies
Russell Davies was born in Barmouth, North Wales and currently presents a Sunday radio programme on BBC Radio 2 which spotlights popular song. He was awarded a first class degree at St John's College, Cambridge but soon abandoned his post-graduate studies in German literature when the opportunity arose to tour with the Cambridge Footlights revue. As a journalist, Davies worked as a film and television critic for "The Observer" and "The Sunday Times", …
- Joan Bakewell
Joan Bakewell CBE (born April 16 1933, Stockport, Cheshire) is an English journalist and television presenter. Born Joan Dawson Rowlands, she was educated at Stockport Convent High School For Girls, where she was head girl and Newnham College, University of Cambridge, where she first came into contact with another future journalist, Brian Redhead, and her first husband, Michael Bakewell. Later, she was married to the director Jack Emery, …
- Chris Barrie
Chris Barrie (born March 28, 1960) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Arnold Rimmer in the cult BBC2 comedy "Red Dwarf", and as Gordon Brittas in popular BBC1 sitcom "The Brittas Empire". He first achieved success as a vocal impressionist (notably in the ITV sketch show "Spitting Image").