---
name: "Paul Schlesinger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-schlesinger"
fi1m_id: "paul-schlesinger"
imdb_id: "nm0772270"
tmdb_id: 1232873
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T16:21:06.464988+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Paul Schlesinger

## Identity

Paul Schlesinger

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-schlesinger
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-schlesinger
- **IMDb ID:** nm0772270
- **TMDB ID:** 1232873
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0772270/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1232873

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2006–2011
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 78 (1), 2010s 77 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0772270/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1232873

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Twenty Twelve*](https://film.one/tv/twenty-twelve.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Paul Schlesinger is a British television producer, executive producer and occasional director, known for his work on BBC and Channel 4 comedy series.

He produced the mockumentary series *Twenty Twelve* (2011–2012) and its spin-off *W1A* (2014–2017). Earlier credits include executive producer on *That Mitchell and Webb Look* (2006–2010) and producer on *People Like Us* (1999). He has also produced *Boomers* (2014–2016), *Citizen Khan* (2012–2016) and *The Windsors* (2016–2020), and directed episodes of *Ballot Monkeys* (2015).

Schlesinger served as head of BBC Radio Comedy from 2005 to 2008. He won a BAFTA Television Award for *Twenty Twelve*.

*Sources: imdb.com, curtisbrown.co.uk, comedy.co.uk, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Twenty Twelve* (2011), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/twenty-twelve.md)
- *That Mitchell and Webb Look* (2006), Fi1m 78, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/that-mitchell-and-webb-look.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Twenty Twenty Six* (2026), series, Executive Producer
- *High & Dry* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *Tim Vine Travels Through Time Christmas Special* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Ballot Monkeys* (2015), series, Director
- *The Cricklewood Greats* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Twenty Twelve* (2011), series, Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/twenty-twelve.md)
- *That Mitchell and Webb Look* (2006), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/that-mitchell-and-webb-look.md)
- *Wild West* (2002), series, Producer
- *Ted & Ralph* (1998), Producer

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