![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first aired episode saw a sweet, softly-spoken young man trying to pass himself off as a nightclub doorman. The bouncers were lovely people but hard as nails Faking It and shows like it came to be known as factual entertainment formats. It was one of the first times a factual show was made using documentary filming techniques and was then commissioned as a repeatable “entertainment” format. ![]() The genius of Stephen was being able to create this bigger entity from what started as a one-off idea. I think we all knew we were making something good, but I don’t think we knew how good. I knew it was a great idea – brilliantly simple and uplifting. Stephen wanted a director called Mike Warner to make the first show as he had a good entertainment sensibility, and Mike asked me if I wanted to work on it with him. The first show was commissioned as a one-off documentary, part of a Channel 4 strand called Cutting Edge. Stephen’s wife, Jenni Russell, had the idea of making a sort of modern-day My Fair Lady/Pygmalion – take people from one walk of life and teach them to pass themselves off as the opposite of who they are. ![]()
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