[…] if the programme is greatly appreciated by about four people and you can understand that in the present climate.Yeah, that especially started after ITV.That’s when it started.Nancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 17It mattered then.Yes, nobody minded at all.Carry on.They, I mean Cecil McGivern was extremely[…]
[…] hadn't got over to the other side in fact I'd never been asked to. There was quite. BBC was occupying me pretty fully and I was a bit frightened of ITV. So I went on doing plays for the BBC and I think that the first ITV one was I can't remember what year but I think it wasn't until ‘68, quite late[…]
[…]rted up. So independents who had been making sponsored films, of course tried to clamber on the bandwagon, together with people who left the BBC and ITV form independent companies. So there was everybody scrambling for work from Channel Four still, there still are. There were too many companies look[…]
[…]ave 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 Film[…]
[…] the Boat enormously when I was the first producer to say look, this is crazy right and why we just keep talking about the BBC. I mean, people watch ITV you know, why can't really talk about ITV. They said all right. So it was very funny because the head of presentation guy called Rex Morford was so[…]
[…]went to series I would be employed to do it. And I had one of my extraordinary bits of what, psychic, whatever you call it, and after I’d left ATV temporarily and was doing something, Ian Messiter had taken over Family Fortunes from me, or was it… yes. He had taken over Family Fortunes, […]
[…]burning thing and you was bitten from top to bottom with lice and things because it was full of things. Then you got to the end, I think it was to Pontville we went up as far as and then we got off this and you crossed on this pontoon with the tracks then we went with the tracks to this camp that wa[…]
[…]ng contented smiles to their faces! At one stage in the afternoon of the day of the Premiere we had a foyer full of press, radio, a replica plane and TV cameras recording interviews when in walked Ted’s Regional Manager David Williams. He cornered me and asked what was going on. As I outlined everyt[…]
[…]s doing Surprise, Surprise, Blind Date, in this LE environment, there was this one department, which was basically a BBC department in the middle of ITV. In the middle of LWT. Which was a very successful station. It must have been the perfect home for you? With your backgrounds, your interests […]
