Brian Tesler (born 19 February 1929) is a British television producer and executive. His career encompassed British television's post-war evolution from a single-channel BBC to the beginning of today’s multitude of cable and satellite channels. He worked as a producer in both the BBC and Independent Television in the 1950s, launching the television careers of Bruce Forsyth and Roy Castle among many others. He devised the Billy Cotton Band Show and British Television's first request show Ask Pickles with Wilfred Pickles, and worked with stage and screen stars such as Gracie Fields, Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett, Bob Hope and Mario Lanza.