[…]y, of course, where I was working with a colleague. For a long time it was a fellow called, you may have heard of him he worked I think in Harlech in ITV called Murrid Jones. John P. Hamilton 22:22 Oh, yes indeed. John Ammonds 22:23 A[…]
[…]id I would meet the Board. When I met the Board I ran out of the roomand decided I would never go in for that sort of thing in my life. So then I saw ITV coming and Iknew Cecil Bernstein well and Sidney Bernstein fairly well.Taylor/Peet: Was Sidney on the BFI.Denis Forman: Cecil was the Chairman of […]
[…]o know the Newsroom and so on and, of course, it was very different television in 1981. It was still a monopoly of advertising sales that belonged to ITV and it was highly Unionised and I got told off several times for picking up things and "Don't touch that!" and you have to be driven and so on. It[…]
[…]f as much again as the BBC. That was the kind of trade-off so everybody that was good anywhere else in the industry very quickly ended up coming into ITV, BBC, well ITV, ITN, STV and, you know, the independent broadcasters. So, yeah, it was amazing! You suddenly thought, Wow! The people in here are.[…]
[…]era looked at?NEVILLE WORTMAN: Yes, that’s it. That’s right. And that sort of developed.DARROL BLAKE: So that was BBC before ITV started.NEVILLE WORTMAN: That was before ITV started, yes.DARROL BLAKE: In Lime Grove, presumably?NEVILLE WORTMAN: Yes, that’s[…]
[…]n football, but just to make sure he got his words, right. Crazy. Then came "Crackerjack". This was early summer 1955. And there were rumblings about ITV and a lot of my peers and some of my superiors like Robert like Michael Westmore. were being coaxed to go ,think about going to ITV .Ll[…]
[…]sp;the same day that was the twenty third my sixty. And then I started in. ITV I used to help Paddy leech who. Whose title was on the strange titles D[…]
[…]much longer.” And, of course, we didn’t, the fees went up and up and up and then even one year we took show jumping away from us and gave it to ITV – this is jumping ahead a long way – but, fortunately, ITV made a booboo because just as they came to jumping the wall in the Puissance - which wa[…]
[…]eave Bristol initially and go to Leeds, or- TD: No. It was going to be fairly tricky getting into television as a researcher, particularly in an ITV company, where at that sort of level you are going to need a union ticket, an ACTT ticket, so my very first job was at the Imperial War Museum Fil[…]
