Ken Riddington is a British television producer, who has worked predominantly in BBC television drama, with a career active since the 1970s. He has produced several high-profile television series and serials, including Tenko (1981), The Citadel (1983), A Very Peculiar Practice (1986), The House of Eliott (1991) and Andrew Davies's adaptations of Michael Dobbs' House of Cards trilogy — House of Cards (1990), To Play the King (1993) and The Final Cut (1995).
For a time during the 1980s, he was the acting Head of Series & Serials in the BBC drama department, before returning to front-line producing work. Ending his spell at the BBC at the age of 75, he and his wife Liz Riddington enjoyed twelve years of retirement before Ken moved to a London nursing home, where he is treated for early dementia.[1]