Career
Llewellyn has also had success finding on-screen talent outside of food: BBC2 series Mary Queen Of Shops launched the career of Mary Portas, and Two Men In A Trench (also for BBC2) launched the television career of archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver. Llewellyn also executive produced The F**king Fulfords, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominated documentary for Channel 4. Outside of the United Kingdom, Patricia Llewellyn is Executive Producer on Kitchen Nightmares, Masterchef, Masterchef Junior and Hotel Hell for Fox Broadcasting in the United States of America. In her role as Managing Director of Optomen, Llewellyn has led the company through a period of rapid growth, it now has production offices in London, New York and Los Los Angeles
In 2014, the Broadcast Annual Survey named the company the 7th largest independent production company in the United Kingdom, with a turnover of over £57m, when Llewellyn joined turnover was under £10m).
