He then moved to ABC Television as a programming executive, and says he worked on shows such as Twin Peaks, Thirtysomething and China Beach.
[1] In 1989, he went to the BBC where he had a chat about the TV industry and asked about work on different shows, one of the ones he was most interested in was science fiction series Doctor Who.
A week later, plans for a 1990 season of Doctor Who were aborted while the BBC searched for an American company to make a new series as a joint venture.
Collaborating with fellow English expatriate Peter Wagg (producer of Max Headroom) they created the early drafts of what eventually became the Doctor Who television movie in 1996.
In 2000 he became senior VP for scripted programming and development at Tribune Entertainment, overseeing Andromeda, Beastmaster and other shows.