Patricia Llewellyn

Patricia Llewellyn is a British television producer and current Managing Director of the television production company, Optomen (which in 2010 became part of the All3Media group of TV companies). She is best known for her work on cookery programmes (she won The Glenfiddich Independent Spirit Award in 2002, "in recognition of her progressive and confident approach to food and drink broadcasting") and has a reputation as a "starmaker", having built hit series around previously unknown chefs, notably Two Fat Ladies (with Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright) and The Naked Chef (with Jamie Oliver) for which she won a BAFTA for Best Features programme in 2000. Her recent credits include Heston's Feast for chef Heston Blumenthal (winner of Royal Television Society Award for Best Features Programme in 2008), and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (winner of BAFTA for Best Features programme in both 2004 and 2007, an International Emmy for Best Non Scripted Entertainment Programme in 2006 and the Grierson Award for Most Entertaining Documentary also in 2006) plus long running food magazine series The F Word for chef, Gordon Ramsay. Llewellyn has also had great success in finding exceptional on-screen talent in other areas: Optomen's BBC2 series "Mary Queen Of Shops" launched the career of Mary Portas, now one of the most recognisable faces on British television (and recently appointed Retail Tsar), she also launched the television career of archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver who started in Optomen's "Two Men In A Trench" and has gone on to present many series for the BBC including "Coast" and "A History Of Scotland". Llewellyn also Executive Produced "The F**king Fulfords", a BAFTA nominated Cutting Edge for Channel 4 that made Francis Fulford and his family national talking points. Outside of the UK, Patricia Llewellyn is Executive Producer on "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares", "Masterchef" and "Hotel Hell" for FOX Broadcasting in the USA.^{[1][2][3][4][5][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]}

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