John Yorke

John Roland Clifford Yorke (born 9 July 1962) is a British television producer and script editor, who was head of Channel 4 Drama 2003–2005, controller of BBC drama production 2006-2012 and MD of Company Pictures (2013-2015).Outside of television production, Yorke authored Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them (2014), a best-selling screenwriting guide that proposes a five act structure to film and television narrative and draws from Yorke's research and experience.