John Yorke (producer)

John Roland Clifford Yorke (born 9 July 1962) is a British television producer and script editor, who was head of Channel 4 Drama 2003–2005, controller of BBC drama production 2006-2012 and MD of Company Pictures (2013-2015).

John Yorke
Yorke in 2021
Born
John Roland Clifford Yorke

(1962-07-09) 9 July 1962
Stepney, London, England
Alma materNewcastle University
Occupations
  • Television producer
  • script editor
Years active1994–present
EmployerBBC / Channel 4
TelevisionEastEnders

Yorke wrote Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them (2014), a screenwriting guide that proposes a five act structure to film and television narrative.

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