I noticed that Edward Bazalgette directed the episode 'Sewer King' It might be a coincidence but wondered if he was infact related to Joseph Bazelgette the civil engineer that designed the london sewers and subject of that episode.
I have always wondered this too.
"Nasty French planet, filled with shifty, back-stabbing, croissant-eating nitwits..."
I saw a documentary some months later and he is actually the grandson of the great man.
shareSorry, who played Mr.Bazalgette?
shareMark McGann http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568907/
"Nasty French planet, filled with shifty, back-stabbing, croissant-eating nitwits..."
I also notice how several other members of the Bazelgette family had cameo roles in this episode. Interesting.
"Nasty French planet, filled with shifty, back-stabbing, croissant-eating nitwits..."
Peter Bazalgette
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Peter Bazalgette founded the television production company Bazal, which produced the popular BBC2 'Food and Drink' programme from 1983 to 2000.
Bazalgette took a degree in Law at Cambridge University where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society. He started in BBC News and then worked on 'That’s Life' as a researcher in the seventies. He later reported for several programmes and ran a corporate video company. He is the co-author of four books including 'The Food Revolution' and 'You Don’t Have to Diet', and author of the book 'Billion Dollar Game'.
In 1990, Bazal was acquired by Broadcast Communications (now Endemol UK - of which Bazalgette became Creative Director and then, in 2002, Chairman) and went on to pioneer ’leisure entertainment’ shows such as 'Ready Steady Cook', 'Changing Rooms' and then 'Ground Force'. He is probably best known for introducing the reality TV show 'Big Brother' to British TV.
In January 2005 Bazalgette joined Endemol's executive board as Chief Creative Officer, overseeing the creation of content across the international group while retaining his role as Chairman of Endemol UK.
He is the great-great-grandson of 19th century civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette.
Maybe Edward is his son?!
So this guy is undoing his ancestors work by helping to pump crap back into our homes...
Yes I did steal that from wikipedia. :)
"Nasty French planet, filled with shifty, back-stabbing, croissant-sniffing, nitwits!!!"
Edward Bazalgette, was the lead guitarist in the 1980s rock group the Vapors, whose hit "Turning Japanese" remains a popular one-hit wonder. Ed now works as a producer at the BBC, making history documentaries like Seven Wonders of The Industrial World and he is a distant cousin of Peter Bazalgette who is the founder of the television production company Bazal, Peter is the great-great-grandson of 19th century civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette.... Referring to his famous ancestor and contemporary reality TV programmes, QI host Stephen Fry remarked that Peter Bazalgette was undoing his great-grandfather's works by "pumping *beep* back into our homes."
So yes they are indeed related. Life is full of irony's.
"irony's" And atrocious spellers.
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