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Spooks TV boss set for payout over breakdown caused by sex claim

The television boss behind Spooks and Law & Order: UK is in line for a payout after he suffered a mental breakdown over a sex harassment allegation. Andrew Woodhead, the former managing director of Working Title TV, was suspended in 2019 after a writer levelled claims against him. The female writer complained that Woodhead had 'taken advantage of his position' and told her lurid details of his private life that were 'unwelcome' and made her feel 'uncomfortable'. She also accused the senior television executive of relating aspects of his sex life that she 'did not want to hear'. Woodhead denied some of the conversations happened and said others were innocent discussions in private — but he did not return to work after being suspended. He