The first version of Survivor was the Swedish 1997 season, but he began to try to sell the idea in 1994. He has won several awards including an Emmy for US series Survivor in 2001.
In March 2010 the Guardian newspaper reported that Parsons was investing in new independent production company, NERD, and had become the company's Chairman.
He went to Pembroke College, Oxford where he studied English Literature and afterwards trained as a journalist. According to a review in 2000,
This nice middle-class schoolboy from Kent, who read English at Oxford, became - so his critics claim - the Titan of Tack TV. He's the bloke that gets the blame for everything that is bad about British television - yoof TV, decline in standards and dumbing-down. But to his admirers, Parsons is a creative genius; a co-founder of Planet 24 and the brain behind such television hits as The Word and The Big Breakfast.
In the mid-1980s Waheed Alli made a killing as an investment banker, and then he started a television production company, Planet 24, with his life partner Charlie Parson (creator of Survivor) and musicist/activist Bob Geldof. In 1998 Alli was made a life peer as Baron Alli of Norbury in the London Borough of Croydon. He became the youngest member of the House of Lords and the first openly gay one. He's one of the few Muslim public figures anywhere to acknowledge his homosexual orientation.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parsons
Alli's mother was a nurse from Trinidad and his father a mechanic from Guyana. At age sixteen, Alli got a job as a researcher for the magazine Planned Savings. He worked his way up the corporate ladder in Robert Maxwell’s publishing empire.
In the mid-1980s Alli made a killing as an investment banker, and then he started a television production company, Planet 24, with his life partner Charlie Parsons (b. 1958) and musicist/activist Bob Geldof. The Big Breakfast for Channel 4 was their first hit show, and a subsequent project, Survivor, became an international success and helped launch the Reality TV genre. (Picture: Charlie Parsons)
In 1998 Alli was made a life peer as Baron Alli of Norbury in the London Borough of Croydon. He became the youngest member of the House of Lords and the first openly gay one. He’s one of the few Muslim public figures anywhere to acknowledge his homosexual orientation. Alli has been active in gay rights issues, arguing successfully for an equal age of consent and for repeal of the anti-gay Section 28.
Stern, Keith (2009-09-01). Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals. Perseus Books Group. Kindle Edition.
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