Saurabh Kakkar

Saurabh Kakkar

Executive Producer (Comedy)

Saurabh has been at Big Talk since September 2014, and has been responsible for series such as Peacock for BBC Three, Defending The Guilty for BBC Two and The Goes Wrong Show for BBC One. He has recently completed Dinner With The Parents for CBS / Amazon FreeVee and is about to begin work on Ludwig for BBC One.

Prior to that he was Head of Development and an Executive Producer at BBC Comedy Productions, responsible for shows such as Professor Branestawm (adapted by Charlie Higson, starring Harry Hill), The Life of Rock with Brian Pern (starring Simon Day and Paul Whitehouse) and Puppy Love (by Jo Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine).
 
And before that Saurabh spent 13 years at ITV Studios as a Drama Producer and Executive, then Creative Director of Comedy, responsible for shows such as White Van Man for BBC Three (remade as Family Tools for ABC in the US), FM for ITV2 (starring Chris O’Dowd), Dirk Gently for BBC Four (starring Stephen Mangan and Darren Boyd), and The Fattest Man in Britain and Security Men for ITV1 (both by Caroline Aherne and Jeff Pope). 

And even prior to that Saurabh produced live comedy, including tours by Lucas and Walliams, Dylan Moran, Eddie Izzard, and The League of Gentlemen.

And before that he designed chemical plants, but stopped because it was boring and he wasn’t very good at it.