question: Who set up the company which produces the BBC children's show based on the American-Canadian books of the same name?
answer: Waheed Alli
context: Title: The Secret Show
  Passage: The Secret Show is a British animated show commissioned by BBC Worldwide in partnership with BBC Children's.  Production of the show began in 2004 and debuted in 2006.  It currently airs on ABC1, BBC Kids, Teletoon+, MBC3, 2x2, Disney Channel Latin America, N1, TVB Pearl, and TSR 2.  It debuted on the American Nicktoons Network on January 20, 2007, and was later removed on November 29, 2010.  It also used to air on Jetix Latin America, Disney Channel Germany, CBBC, BBC One and BBC Two.
  Title: Basil's Swap Shop
  Passage: Basil's Swap Shop is a British children's television series that was produced for CBBC and ran on Saturday mornings on BBC Two and CBBC Channel from 5 January 2008 to 25 September 2010.  Based on the original BBC children's Saturday morning show "Multi-Coloured Swap Shop", which ran on BBC One from 1976 to 1982, it was hosted by Barney Harwood, along with veteran puppet character Basil Brush, from whom the show takes its title.
  Title: It'll Never Work?
  Passage: It'll Never Work?  was a television programme for children showcasing new inventions and developments in scientific technology.  Produced by Roy Milani for BBC Children's, the show ran for seven series between 9 November 1993 and 23 August 1999 on weekdays within the Children's BBC, later CBBC, strand on BBC One.  "It'll Never Work?"  was presented throughout its run by children's television presenter Sally Gray, who would go on to present children's quiz "50/50", Jez Nelson, who would go on to front the related primetime BBC technology series "Tomorrow's World", and science presenter Angela Lamont.  This team was augmented during later series by presenters Adrian Johnson (series 5, 1997) and Rick Adams (series 6, 1998).
  Title: Alice Webb
  Passage: Alice Webb is a British television executive.  She is Director of BBC Children's, leading the BBC's services for UK children.  Before being appointed to this role in March 2015, Webb was Chief Operating Officer, BBC North for five years, responsible for moving BBC Children's, 5 Live, and the BBC Learning and BBC Sport divisions out of London to a new campus based at Salford Quays.
  Title: Nicola Davies (author)
  Passage: Nicola Davies (born 3 May 1958) is an English zoologist and writer.  She was one of the original presenters of the BBC children's wildlife programme "The Really Wild Show".  More recently, she has made her name as a children's author.  Her books include "Home", which was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award, and "Poo" (2004), which was illustrated by Neal Layton, and was shortlisted for a Blue Peter Book Award in 2006; in the United States, the book is published as "".  She has also written several novels for adults under the pseudonym Stevie Morgan.
  Title: Silvergate Media
  Passage: Silvergate Media is a television production and brand licensing company based in London and New York.  The company was founded in 2011 by Waheed Alli, who set up the company as part of a management buy-out, buying the rights to "The Octonauts" and "The World of Beatrix Potter" from Chorion, a company he was previously chair of.
  Title: Forget Me Not Farm
  Passage: Forget Me Not Farm (also styled as "Forget-Me-Not Farm") is a BBC children's television series that was originally aired on BBC One from 13 November 1990 to 18 February 1991.  Set on the eponymous Forget Me Not Farm, the show featured a scarecrow who was played by the show's creator Mike Amatt, a pair of crows named Dandelion and Burdock, a tractor named Trundle, a pig named Portly, a cow named Gracie, a sheep named Merthyr, a tanker named Topper, and a mouse named Mrs. Mouse.  All of the male animated characters were voiced by the British character actor Bob Peck while the female ones were voiced by Anna Carteret.
  Title: Why Don't You?
  Passage: Why Don't You?  or Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go Out and Do Something Less Boring Instead?  was a BBC children's television series broadcast in 42 series between 20 August 1973 and 21 April 1995.  It originally went out in the morning during the Summer school holidays and once was shown during the weekday evening children's TV slot around 4:45 to 5:45.  Later it went out during the Easter and Christmas school holidays although it was also broadcast once on Saturday mornings.  The format consisted of groups or "gangs" of children responding to letters from viewers who wrote into the show suggesting games, 'makes' and days out.  Typically these were arts-and-crafts activities or games and magic tricks children could learn to impress their friends.
  Title: Teddy Trucks
  Passage: Teddy Trucks is a British children's cartoon television programme which was based on the best-selling books by award-winning author and illustrator, Michelle Cartlidge.  The series was developed in conjunction with BBC Children's Television.  The show follows a business company of bears who drive trucks and deliver cargo.  ABC in Australia (15 July 1994 - 12 February 1999).
  Title: The Octonauts
  Passage: The Octonauts is a British children's television series, produced by Silvergate Media for the BBC channel CBeebies.  The series is animated in Ireland by Brown Bag Films but uses British voice actors.  The TV series is based on American-Canadian children's books written by Vicki Wong and Michael C. Murphy of Meomi Design Inc.
citations: The Octonauts Silvergate Media