Will Wyatt (born 7 January 1942) is a British media consultant and company director, formerly a journalist, television producer and senior executive at the BBC. He was born in Oxford and educated at S.S.Philip and James primary school and Magdalen College School, Oxford and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His career began in 1964 as a trainee journalist on the Sheffield Telegraph newspaper, before moving to the BBC in 1965 as a sub-editor in BBC radio news. In 1968 he moved to BBC Television, working for the Presentation Department as producer of Points of View, The Fifties and Storyteller, before joining the daily arts and media programme Late Night Line-UpHe then originated and edited Edition, presented by Kenneth Alsop, The Book Programme with Robert Robinson and Don't Quote Me. He produced a number of documentaries including All the Buildings Fit to Print about Nikolaus Pevsner and was executive producer of They've Shot Kennedy, Good Night and Good Luck and The Scars of Autumn. He produced B.Traven: A Mystery Solved and wrote a real life literary detective story The Man Who Was B.Traven. (Cape, 1980). In USA published as The Secret of the Sierra Madre (Doubleday)By 1978 he had was Assistant Head of the Presentation Department, whose output included The Old Grey Whistle Test, The Hollywood Greats and Barry Norman's Film... programme. From 1981 to 1988 he was Head of Documentary Features, starting 40 Minutes, Crimewatch, Food and Drink, Comrades, All Our Working Lives, The Duty Men,Queens'- A Cambridge College, Around the World in Eighty Days with Michael Palin and negotiated and executive produced Elizabeth R, a documentary portrait of the Queen, produced by Edward Mirzoeff.In 1988 he became Assistant Managing Director of BBC Television, and in 1991 full Managing Director of BBC Network Television, leading a revival in drama - Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice,Between the Lines, Buddha of Suburbia, Our Friends in the North, Ballykissangel,This Life, Hamish Macbeth and Dalziel and Pascoe - and a strong programme performance in other genres - Goodnight Sweetheart, The Wrong Trousers, Absolutely Fabulous, Men Behaving Badly, Knowing Me Knowing You,The Fast Show,The Vicar of Dibley, People's Century,Death of Yugoslavia and Nazis- A Warning From History. After five years he was made Chief Executive of BBC Broadcast, responsible for all BBC broadcasting in the UK on radio and television other than news. During this time he oversaw the launch of BBC Online and the BBC's digital television channels, the creation of the BBC's partnership in UKTV and BBC America.He was also deputy to the Director-General John Birt.He retired from the BBC at the end of 1999, becoming chairman of the London Institute, leading it to become the University of the Arts London www.arts.ac.uk/. He was awarded the CBE in 2000 and was President of the Royal Television Society from 2000 to 2004. From 2002-7 he was Chairman of Human Capital Limited, a media strategy and research
Head of BBC Documentary Features 1981-1987; Managing Director BBC Television 1991-6; Chief Executive BBC Broadcast 1996-9. Author "The Fun Factory - A Life in the BBC" Aurum Press 2003.