The proposal for Marvellous was not entirely promising. It told the true story of Neil Baldwin, a failed clown with learning disabilities, who wants to manage Stoke City Football Club and write an extra verse for the Lord’s Prayer.
“If the BBC had turned it down, we wouldn’t have taken the show elsewhere,” said Patrick Spence, head of the production company Fifty Fathoms. “We did not have a plan B. No other broadcaster in the world would have made it.”
The BBC did not turn it down. Marvellous aired on BBC Two last year, was watched by 1.5m people, and won the Bafta for best single drama.
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