Ash Atalla

Ash Atalla born 18 June 1972 is an Egyptianborn British television producer He has produced several British TV series such as The Office The IT Crowd Man Stroke Woman and People Just Do Nothing He has also made cameo appearances in productions such as Ricky Gervaiss Politics Atalla was born into a middleclass family in Cairo He developed polio as a baby and uses a wheelchair He emigrated to London due to his fathers job He read business and finance at the University of Bath He briefly worked as a stockbroker and a currency trader before at 22 he found unpaid work on BBC Watchdog Atalla made his first appearance on TV in 1999 when he copresented a Channel 4 series on disability Freak Out In 2001 he produced the sitcom The Office Atalla joined the production company Talkback Thames in 2004 as Head of Comedy and produced both the science spoof Look Around You for BBC2 and the third series of Bo Selecta In 2005 he devised and began work on Man Stroke Woman a comedy sketch show about growing up which aired from 2005 to 2007 He also produced The IT Crowd 20062010 In 2007 Atalla set up Roughcut TV an independent production company Atalla and Roughcut produced Trinity for ITV2 in 2008 Roughcut TV has since produced shows for all the UKs major broadcasters including Trollied Sky 1 Cuckoo BBC Three Worlds Craziest Fools starring Mr T BBC Three Anna Katy Channel 4 People Just Do Nothing BBC Three Mad Mad World ITV 1 and Top Coppers BBC Three He has also made cameo appearances in productions such as Ricky Gervais Politics