Ed Bazalgette
Episodes Broadcast: 2015-2016
Edward Bazalgette grew up during the Seventies, and watched Doctor
Who during Jon Pertwee's time as the Third Doctor. By the end of the
decade, he had become the lead guitarist for the Vapors, a new wave band
that enjoyed notable success with their 1980 single Turning
Japanese. While making music videos with the Vapors, Bazalgette
found himself intrigued by the work of the directors. When the band
dissolved in 1982, he decided to study filmmaking, and he soon began
working on commercials. By the early Nineties, Bazalgette was working as
a dubbing editor on shows like Lovejoy. He was then given an
opportunity to direct factual programmes, such as 1998's Home Front
In The Garden. Over the next decade, Bazalgette both produced and
directed a number of documentaries, but he became keen to move into
drama. In 2007, he began working on shows including EastEnders,
Doctors and Holby City.
Bazalgette moved away from the soap genre during the early 2010s, with
the likes of Endeavour, The Guilty and DCI Banks
amongst his credits. It was his work on Poldark that drew the
notice of the Doctor Who team; for his part, Bazalgette was eager
to work with Peter Capaldi, who had recently debuted as the Twelfth
Doctor. As such, he recorded the closely-linked The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived for
Doctor Who's 2015 season, in the process introducing Maisie
Williams as the immortal Ashildr. Bazalgette also handled The
Doctor's Meditation, a special prequel to the season premiere, The Magician's Apprentice / The
Witch's Familiar. He then directed the first three episodes of
the short-lived spin-off series Class before returning to
Doctor Who for the 2016 Christmas special, The Return Of Doctor
Mysterio.
Bazalgette moved on to programmes like The Last Kingdom, for
which he also served as a co-executive producer. During the Twenties, he
directed episodes of The Witcher and Fate: The Winx
Saga.
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