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While praising BBC Studios for its support, Fellows revealed the company is “exploring other options” and has “certain ambitions that might need more investment at some point,” while conceding he “finds it relaxing that the buck stops with us.” One of his most treasured elements has been the opportunity to work behind the scenes on shows more often, overseeing an entire slate rather than homing in on one presenting gig at a time.
“This is about ceding new ground to distinctive voices and collaborating with them,” said Theroux. “My idea with Mindhouse was always to have people on screen who add something interesting and different.” “There are often obstacles with some of the stories we brainstorm such as access and archive and making a drama would solve that problem,” she added. “We can work with talented drama producers and scriptwriters and feel this is an exciting space.”, a highly controversial project about the former BBC presenter who was posthumously outed for sexually abusing hundreds of people, leading to a scandal that turned the BBC inside out.
The celebrated documentarian and his Mindhouse co-founders talk moving into scripted, “leaning into the U.S. market,” future investment and the BBC’s controversial Jimmy Savile drama MORE: