Duncan Gray is a TV exec and the creator of Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, ITV's Saturday Night Takeaway with Ant & Dec, he hired James Corden for Sky's League of Their Own and he was an exec on Jimmy Kimmel's US chat show for three and half years. 

Duncan says how a mix of Tiswas and Simon Mayo's Radio 1 influenced the Big Breakfast and how Simon later helped save his sanity!

As an ideas creator, Duncan also shares his advice for making your ideas work.