Books by Spencer Austin

Spencer Austin is a television producer who spent his formative years in Walthamstow (going to school with East 17 and playing for the same football club as David Beckham are small items of trivia he churns out at dinner parties). In his teens he won the Waltham Forest Guardian Young Sports Journalist of the Year and subsequently worked for Leyton Orient Football Club. At 21 he fell violently into stand-up comedy and ended up performing as part of a double act on stage and screen with very little applause. But it did result in being offered a job as a TV researcher at LWT, where he worked closely with Jeremy Beadle and legendary writer Denis Norden for a few years. He wrote and produced a number of TV pilots featuring talent such as Leigh Francis and Edgar Wright before Nasty Nigel Lythgoe noticed and took him under his wing. From there he went on to devise and/or freelance produce shows (Celebrity Stitch-Up, Your Face or Mine, Gagging For It, RI:SE, Rajan and his Evil Hypnotists) that have been sold in the UK and internationally. He formed Hideous Productions and very quickly created a show called 24 Hours With... for ITV1, as well as selling it to 11 countries all over the world. He now lives on the Isle of Dogs with no-one but himself.