# Keith Chapman

keith chapman (born 1959 in Great Yarmouth) is a British television writer and producer, best known as the creator of children's television programmes Bob the Builder and PAW Patrol. == Biography == He worked for Jim Henson International, designing characters related to the Muppets, before leaving to pursue a career in advertising. While freelancing as an agency art director in the early 1990s, Chapman worked on his own creations, one of them being Bob the Builder, who was created after he spotted a JCB backhoe loader on a work site and thought he could bring it to life with cartoon eyes, which became the character Scoop (then named "Dig"), followed by other machines, and then thought the machines needed a human operator, which led to the creation of Bob, eventually showing it and his other creations to Peter Orton, executive chairman of HIT Entertainment., and Orton, sensing potential in Bob the Builder, acquired the intellectual property rights and created a television show based on the property.