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Stanley Baxter in Person

An Audience with Peter Ustinov

The Trial of Richard III

An Audience with Mel Brooks

An Audience with Kenneth Williams

An Audience with Dudley Moore

An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford

Richard Searle Drewett (1935–2008) was a British television executive producer specialising in talk shows and light entertainment from the 1960s to the 1990s. Working for BBC Television and London Weekend Television and later with his company Watchmaker Productions, Drewett played a key role in the development of the television talk show. He started in television as one of the producers of the 1960s arts and review show Late Night Line-Up and in a career of nearly 40 years, during which he won three British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA Awards, he developed long-running professional partnerships with presenters Michael Parkinson and Clive James and promoted the television career of Barry Humphries in his comedic alter-ego Dame Edna Everage. He promoted the early careers of a number of noted female television producers and executives.

Richard Drewett

Richard Drewett

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