So please don't discount the possibility of Stockholm syndrome when I tell you that Sarah & Duck is one of the greatest programmes currently on British TV.
In BBC terms, Yentob ranks comfortably alongside Sir David Attenborough (briefly a BBC2 controller in the 1960s) and Sir Huw Wheldon (who made the pioneering art series, Monitor, and then ran BBC1) as one of the great programme-maker-turned-executives.
"But fair because it allows them to continue to make the great programmes that we all love and licence fee payers won't have to pay any extra for the privilege.
"But fair because it allows them to continue to make the great programmes that we all love, and licence fee payers won't have to pay any extra for the privilege".
Presented by BBC Earth's The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth programme.
And they formed the foundation of that great programme, which has never been bettered in my view.
The American magazine TV Guide hailed it as the greatest television programme of all time.
Look me in the eye and tell me that doesn't sound like the greatest television programme ever made.
In this period, Granada Television won the award for being the greatest television programme maker in the world, which, understandably, irked the BBC.
Last year the writer and director Richard Curtis named it one of the greatest television programmes of all time.
