[…]ful Cyril, who had been all over in commercial television, knew what it was about. That’s three companies. And then there was Thames. Thames? Yes. And then there was Thames headed by Howard Thomas, with Brian Tesler as Director. George Cooper the man…n[…]
[…]nk in all television that I’ve done.Winning factions, losing factions.DS: Yes. I think politics have always been involved. It was worse when I got to Thames and when I got up into the Euston journalistic news area, that was horrific, but that’s for later.It seems almost suicidal on your pa[…]
[…]you literally sincerely or you were just …Philip Donnellan: Well I was dragged to the Sunday school, the Christian Science Sunday school, Kingston-on-Thames every Sunday and it was murder because it was all a lot of bollocks to me. I mean I could understand the concept of God because that had […]
[…]ged. Instead of being run by ex programme people as the BBC was always run by, and if you look at ITV, most of the bosses in ITV when I first went to Thames, Brian Cowgill was the managing director and he had been controller of BBC1 he was an ex producer, Alasdair Milne was the director general at t[…]
[…]of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committee, the […]
[…]BC1. And I understand that Eric said well Bill Cotton's looked after himself so we better look after ourselves and they went for a massive offer from Thames Television which included a film. And it was just like a divorce to me. I was lying in bed ill in the Bel Air Hotel in Beverly Hills when I was[…]
[…] enham or Teddington or wherever it is, you know the Thames Television wherever it is. He had nothing to do with […]
[…]ot fed up sitting behind a desk being Head of Comedy and he went as being a producer and then he left the BBC and he freelanced and he, he worked for Thames for some years and did some very successful productions for Thames. But he was behind many successful projects that have since, since run on to[…]
[…] the BBC and he freelanced and he, he worked for Thames for some years and did some very successful productions […]
[…]t then, and it’s hardly ever done now, this kind of programming, sadly.MW: Of course in the early days you had the London Film Festival, and the Thames Silents and that was a keynote of that period?CJ: Well, let’s stay in the 80s for a moment, because we all played a part in that kind of t[…]
