EmailLast night, Pat Younge, former head of The Travel Channel, former Chief Creative Officer at The BBC dropped by for dinner.
Since we had him as a kind of captive, we got him to answer a few basic questions on what he looked for when he was buying or commissioning programming.
These days, he is also running his own production company, the London based Sugar Films -- so he has been on ‘both sides’ of the table.
I think you will find his remarks most useful:
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