Paul Lee (television executive)
Paul Lee is a British director, producer and executive. He is currently the CEO of the television and movie studio . He founded the BBC's U.S. cable network BBC America and ran ABC Family, ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios for the Walt Disney Company. During his tenure, Lee is credited with championing racial diversity and changing the face of American television with hit shows including Black-ish, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, American Crime, The Goldbergs, Quantico and Fresh Off the Boat. Early life Paul Lee was born in London to South African Jewish parents Emanoel Lee and Janine Lee (born Amato) and educated at The Dragon School, Oxford, Winchester College and New College, Oxford. Career Lee was a director for the BBC Music and Arts department where he made Primo Levi for Bookmark, and Kalashnikov & Woody Guthrie for the BBC strand Arena. Woody Guthrie helped Arena win the British Academy Television Awards for best series in 1989. Lee was the writer and director of Oblomov (1989) for Arena. It was the first foreign scripted film to be made in the Soviet Union before the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It was filmed entirely on location in Moscow