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What Richard Bacon Did Next: How the Former (and Once Famously Fired) BBC Host Became Unscripted TV’s Wildest Ideas Man
The Yes Yes Media founder and former BBC host discusses backing from Elisabeth Murdoch and Courtney Cox
“I woke up with this image in my head of [Brit comedian and TV host] Jimmy Carr standing in front a studio audience who weren’t allowed to make any noise — if they did they started losing money,” he says while eyeing up a bowl of croissants. Indeed, he’s speaking in front of a wall on which a neatly displayed grid of A4 sheets feature short blurbs for almost 30 concepts spanning talent, quiz, reality, dating and cooking shows, plus live events. When a U.S. travelogue TV concept fell through (actually before Bacon had even left the U.K.) what followed was an almost year-long period of unemployment, broken when he landed a gig as presenter of the National Geographic Channel’s “Explorer.” The debut show: hiking through Yosemite with Barack Obama in the final days of his presidency.
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