Trouble at the Top

Trouble at the Top was a business-based BBC television fly on the wall documentary broadcast on BBC2.[1][2] The series focussed on business failings or disputes between business people. Mainly the series depicted half-hour documentaries on large businesses such as Sainsbury's or privately owned ventures. It also featured a number of celebrity-based editions such as Chef Gordon Ramsay, supermodel Jodie Kidd and even pop group Bucks Fizz.[3] The series ran for 11 seasons from 1997 to 2007.

Trouble at the Top
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series11
Production
Running time43–44 minutes
Release
Original networkBBC 2
Original release22 March 1997 (1997-03-22)

The 2005 movie Kinky Boots was inspired by an episode about W.J. Brooks Ltd, a family-controlled Earls Barton, Northamptonshire shoe factory whose 'Divine' product line consisted of traditionally feminine footwear marketed towards men.[4] Trouble at the Top also reportedly inspired TV producer Mark Burnett to make "The Apprentice" which debuted in the US in 2004.[5]

A spin off four-part series, Trouble at the Big Top, followed developments at the Millennium Dome in a similar style.

References
  1. Dowd, Vincent (18 June 2013). "Kinky Boots inspiration comes out of the shadows". BBC News. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  2. "The real story behind those kinky boots". Northampton Chronicle and Echo. 6 October 2005. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  3. "Trouble at the Top". Locate TV. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015.
  4. Dowd, Vincent (18 June 2013). "Kinky Boots inspiration comes out of the shadows". BBC News. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  5. "How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success". The New Yorker. 27 December 2018.

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