
Ben Wicks.
Creative Director, Entertainment
After joining Expectation 9 years ago Wicks has overseen the creation, development, and production of a 1000s of hours of television – lots of it award-winning. Most recently he has overseen – in partnership with Dave Flynn’s Plegazoid – the winning of the recent BBC/NBC tender for a big new piece of British IP to appear on BBC1 and NBC with a game show like no other. Other recent successes have been the launch of Sky hit show The Dyers’ Caravan Park, C4’s David Baddiel Cat Man and recent Disney+ commission Alan Carr: Castle Man. Earlier Expectation successes include the double BAFTA, and RTS winning: The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan, RTS and BAFTA winning The Big Narstie Show, RTS winning, BAFTA nominated Munya Chawawa’s Race Around Europe. In addition several hundred episodes of BAFTA nominated Channel 4’s daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch, Broadcast-Digital winning Mel Giedroyc’s Unforgivable, ITV’s In With A Shout, BBC 1’s This Is My House, Channel 4’s I Literally Just Told You.
Prior to joining Expectation he was executive producer of the multi-BAFTA nominated The Last Leg, overseeing the transformation of the show; from modest ratings to audiences of over 2 million, stellar ratings for a live topical comedy show. Other credits include Exec Producing Alan Carr’s Specstacular, Series Producing Harry Hill’s Tea Time, producing Have I Got News For You and A League of Their Own, Frank Skinner’s Opinionated and BAFTA-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised.