ITV Head of Drama Polly Hill: the woman with the Midas touch
“My dad always told me you can change the world with drama, particularly new writing, and I would reply: ‘You can’t.’”
Polly Hill speaks fondly of her father, the veteran actor Dave Hill, whose long list of stage, film and TV credits testifies to his half-century in the business, and who used to take his teenage daughter weekly to the theatre for inspiration. “Then Mr Bates came along. My dad’s nearly 80 now, and he took delight in saying: ‘See, I told you.’”