Director
Edgar Wright had some material used in the first episode of Beadle's Hot Shots, and was asked to join the show as a researcher. In May 2017 he appeared on an
Adam Buxton podcast, where he admitted that the standard of videos sent in by the public was too amateurish to be transmitted, and he shot around "a third" of the clips himself.
Wright clarified that "[Jeremy Beadle] had absolutely no knowledge that I was fabricating some of the clips", and that he thought that it would have been a scandal had the show been a bigger hit. Wright's involvement saw him shoot some brand new sketches himself, with his face off camera, and also contact some members of the public who had submitted good ideas but with poor production, causing Wright to reshoot the sketches with the people involved.
