Piers Wenger

Piers Wenger is a British television executive who has served as controller of BBC drama commissioning since 2016.

[citation needed] As a producer, Wenger closely collaborated with Victoria Wood over a decade on her dramatic projects.

He also co-executive produced Eric and Ernie (2011), Peter Bowker's biopic of the young Morecambe and Wise in which Wood also starred.

[1] No Offence, Paul Abbott's anarchic police procedural, launched strongly later in the same year and won the Royal Television Society Award for best drama series.

[2] In 2021, Wenger confirmed that he had reluctantly backed a decision to discontinue the long-running hospital drama Holby City in favour of the return of Waterloo Road, the latter representing the north of England.