Sir Peter Lytton Bazalgette (/ˈbæzəldʒɛt/; born 22 May 1953[1]) is a British television executive and producer, also active in the fields of the Arts and broader creative industries.

Peter Bazalgette presented a later television show for Five, called The Great Stink, and chaired the Crossness Engines Trust raising £4.5 million to restore the Victorian pumping station built by his ancestor.

Married since 1985 to Hilary Newiss,[5] an intellectual property rights lawyer, with two children, Sir Peter and Lady Bazalgette live in Notting Hill, London.

He continued producing by forming his own production company Bazal, which created hits for British TV including Ready Steady Cook, Changing Rooms and Ground Force.

Although Big Brother was conceived from an existing series in the Netherlands, Bazalgette is credited with popularising the format around the world thanks to the adaptations he built into the UK version.

[7] Bazalgette has long championed the value of the BBC for its trusted news and critical investment in original programming and creative talent.

Along with others he has speculated how long the current funding model of the BBC will last, and whether in the future the licence fee might be reduced to pay specifically for core news and information content.

[11] In January 2015, prime minister David Cameron announced the creation of the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation, and said Bazalgette would serve as its chairman.

He has written widely on privacy and the internet, young people and voting, arts and philanthropy, public service broadcasting and student volunteering.

He is a former board member of Channel 4 and former Deputy Chairman of the National Film & Television School where he helped raise £8 million for a new teaching building.