Benjamin Stephenson is a television executive, formerly controller of drama at the British Broadcasting Corporation and currently Head of Television at Bad Robot in the United States.
10 Facts About Ben Stephenson
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In 1999 Ben Stephenson worked at Granada as a script editor on the television series Heartbeat.
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Ben Stephenson later worked in the same role for London's Burning and Blood Strangers.
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Ben Stephenson worked at Channel 4 for over two years, on shows such as No Angels.
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Ben Stephenson next moved to Shed Productions, and Tiger Aspect.
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Ben Stephenson joined the BBC in 2004 working as Head of Development for Independent Drama, later becoming Head of Development for Fiction.
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In 2008 Ben Stephenson then took the roles of Head of Drama Commissioning at the BBC.
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Ben Stephenson was appointed in March 2015 as the Head of Television at JJ Abrams' Bad Robot production company in the United States.
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In July 2009 Ben Stephenson wrote a blog article for The Guardian newspaper in response to criticisms of the BBC's drama output.
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Jeremy Hunt, shadow culture secretary at the time, called for Ben Stephenson to make "an immediate retraction and apology", stating "no journalist or editor should be following a political agenda, let alone someone as senior as a controller".