Ted Sarandos has defended Richard Gadd, creator of Netflix here Baby cleanwho has been the subject of a defamation lawsuit by a woman identified by online sleuths as his alleged stalker.

Netflix CEO told The Times of London newspaper that he was “proud of the show and the way Richard handled the story.”

IN Baby cleanthe stalker was jailed although the woman involved said she received no conviction. The show had a “true story” label attached to it, and Sarandos said:

“It was nobody’s intention to use a label recklessly. It’s Richard’s true story. The fact that you’re watching on television says that parts of it were indeed fictionalized and dramatized. I’m surprised that there’s an ongoing debate.”

In the same interview, Sarandos confirmed the streamer’s commitment to local production, for example The gentlemen and Bridgerton in the UK, and said he was as surprised as anyone when shows such as Baby clean became global hits.

And he was asked to reveal his favorite non-Netflix show? His response: the bear, streaming on Disney+. Sarandos said of the kitchen-based comedy-drama now in its third series: “It keeps TV to a higher level, which I like.”