Derek Pander is a fictional, internet-based, comedy character who presents a series of television programmes on the imaginary UK cable television channel, UK Anguish. He is a loose parody of real-life daytime chat show hosts such as ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

's Jeremy Kyle

Jeremy Kyle

Jeremy Kyle is an English radio and television presenter, best known for his British daytime television chat show on ITV, The Jeremy Kyle Show. Kyle is also the host of an American talk show of the same name that premiered on 19 September 2011.-Radio career:From 1986 to 1995, Kyle worked as a...

 or the US's Jerry Springer

Jerry Springer

Gerald Norman "Jerry" Springer is a British-born American television presenter, best known as host of the tabloid talk show The Jerry Springer Show since its debut in 1991...

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Creation and Development

Derek Pander was originally conceived in late 2006 by Kevin Mulroue as Brian Pander. The idea was developed in conjunction with Richard Eckley, who suggested changing the character's first name to Derek. The character's first outing was in the form of an audio file in which Pander was played by Mulroue. Daniel Allen was later brought in as the face of Derek Pander, with the character's subsequent material being written collaboratively or independently by the three Grays

Grays

Grays is the largest town in the borough and unitary authority of Thurrock in Essex and one of the Thurrock's traditional parishes...

-based writers.

Derek Pander has appeared in two short films (written collaboratively by Mulroue, Eckley and Allen) that were shot on MiniDV video and is available on Pander's MySpace

MySpace

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 page http://www.myspace.com/derekpander.

In addition, a number of Pander-related trailers for the fictional UK Anguish channel have also been created by Eckley and are available through the MySpace page. Semi-regular blog entries written by Mulroue have formed the backbone of developing the character's persona, which is best summarized as being that of an opinionated, snobbish, narcissistic and stupid man.

Another character, Barry Twott, was created by Eckley as a parody of Barry Scott

Barry Scott

Barry Scott is an American DJ, author and voice artist.For over 25 years Barry Scott has hosted the radio show The Lost 45s, which features Top 40 charted records from the late 1960s to the late 1980s....

, a presenter of UK television advertisements and best-known for his work on the Cillit Bang

Cillit Bang

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