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BBC executive Cecil Madden later recalled filming a production of The Scarlet Pimpernel in this way, only for film director Alexander Korda to order the burning of the negative as he owned the film rights to the book, which he felt had been infringed.
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BBC and executive
Notably, Barry Took was the principal writer in the 1969 season ; executive producer George Schlatter, a Canadian, was influenced by Round the Horne on CBC repeats of BBC original programming, and searched out Took for his programme.
David Hatch ( who went on to executive positions within the BBC, including the top position of Controller of BBC Radio 4 ).
The term includes the four types of NDPB ( executive, advisory, tribunal and Independent Monitoring Boards ) but excludes public corporations, National Health Service ( NHS ) bodies and public broadcasters ( BBC, Channel 4 and S4C ).
Terry Nation had the idea for Blake's 7 in a moment of inspiration during a pitch meeting with Ronnie Marsh, a BBC drama executive.
There were even a few members of the BBC's staff who were not sorry when Steuart Wilson, a BBC executive with a private grudge against Boult, engineered Boult's retirement in 1950, though many profoundly regretted it.
Having left the BBC, Perkins became Creative Director and an executive producer for independent production company Tiger Aspect, ( whose previous programmes include The Vicar of Dibley and The Thin Blue Line ), in late 2001.
Founder producer / director ( 1989 – 95 ) was Matthew Robinson who, after Byker Grove, became executive producer of EastEnders, Head of Drama BBC Wales and now runs Khmer Mekong Films in Cambodia.
She had a relationship with BBC executive Bob Wheaton from 1989 to 1996.
After performing in his own show in Edinburgh in 1998, McGowan was approached by a BBC executive about working on a series, which he wanted Ancona to be involved in.
For 30 years, until February 2010, he was a BBC journalist and news executive.
The Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and ( from 1994 ) editor-in-chief of the BBC.
The channel was led by Garth Ancier, who was the president of BBC Worldwide Americas from February 2007 until 2010, when he was succeeded by former MTV Networks executive Herb Scannell.
In response, Mark Rodwell, chief executive of Prestwick Airport, told BBC Radio Scotland, that until it was proved otherwise Prestwick Airport remains the only place in the United Kingdom that Elvis Presley ever set foot.
* Julie Gardner ( 1969-), television producer previously responsible for Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood, now executive producer of scripted projects at BBC Worldwide ;
Despite being offered an executive producership by the BBC, keen to regain his services on the very day he left ABPC, Newman decided to return to Canada.
BBC Four forms part of the BBC Vision group, and as a result, the channel controller is answerable to the head of this executive department: George Entwistle, as of 2011.
BBC actor, announcer, executive Harman Grisewood ( 1908 – 97 ) was brought up at the Prebendal House in the 1910s and 1920s.
An ITV executive was quoted as saying, " By being too radical and playing fast and loose with the public service remit, the BBC is inviting external regulation-and it deserves it.
Noel Ernest Edmonds, ( born 22 December 1948 ) is an English broadcaster and executive, who made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 in the UK.
Working in the science department, she became Editor of the BBC One series QED, and then executive producer of the documentary series Animal Hospital and The Human Body.
There he oversaw over forty environmental documentaries made by the BBC Natural History Unit, and was also responsible for forging the BBC's relationship with Bristol-based animation studio Aardman Animations, becoming an executive producer on the company's Academy Award-winning short film The Wrong Trousers ( 1993 ).
Alan Yentob ( born 11 March 1947 ) is a British television executive and presenter who has worked throughout his career at the BBC.
BBC and Cecil
* In the BBC TV drama serial Elizabeth R ( 1971 ), " Sir Robert Cecil " is played by Hugh Dickson.
* In 1964, Ken Russell directed a black and white film adaptation for BBC 2, with Bryan Pringle in the title role and Jonathan Cecil as Cummings.
* Former MP Cecil Walker dies at 81, BBC News, 3 January 2007
Other notable former students are Cecil Frank Powell, winner of a Nobel Prize in physics ; Humphrey Burton, former head of BBC Music ; Bernard Hailstone, a Royal portrait painter ; Ronald Ralph Williams, former Bishop of Leicester and Guy Hands, chief executive officer of Terra Firma Capital Partners.
Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie ( 7 February 1893 – 10 June 1949 ) was Director-General of the BBC from 19 July 1938 ( aged 45 ) to 26 January 1942, and was succeeded by joint Directors-General Cecil Graves and Robert W. Foot.
Robert William Foot OBE ( 7 June 1889 – 2 April 1973 ) was Director-General of the BBC, first jointly with Cecil Graves from 26 January 1942 to 6 September 1943 and then solely until he resigned on 31 March 1944.
Cecil McGivern CBE ( 22 May 1907, Newcastle, England – 30 January 1963, Buckinghamshire, England ) was a British broadcasting executive, who initially worked for BBC Radio before transferring to BBC Television in the late 1940s.
In 1954 Cecil McGivern, the Controller of Programmes at BBC Television, referred to the success of the serial in a memo discussing the impending launch of a new commercial television channel, ending the BBC's monopoly.
Referring to the 1953 science-fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment in a memo written in 1954, BBC Television's Controller of Programmes, Cecil McGivern, noted that: " Had competitive television been in existence then, we would have killed it every Saturday night while Quatermass Experiment lasted.
The serial was also criticised internally at the BBC by Cecil McGivern, who felt it to be not as good as the original.
These have included ' A Mighty River of Song ' at the Royal Albert Hall on 12 May 2007, the BBC Electric Proms concert, ' Once in a Blue Moon: A Tribute to Lal Waterson ', at Cecil Sharp House in London on 25 October 2007 and ' A Tribute to Bert ,' a concert celebrating the life and work of Albert Lloyd, at Cecil Sharp House on the 15 November 2008.
With Kevin Cecil, his friend since they attended Aylesbury Grammar School, he created and wrote the sitcoms The Great Outdoors for BBC Four, Hyperdrive for BBC Two and Slacker Cats for the ABC Family Channel.
In February 1957 he returned once again to the BBC to succeed Cecil McGivern as the Controller of Programmes at the BBC Television Service.
* BBC audiobook narrated by Jonathan Cecil ( 2005 ) ISBN 1-57270-484-5
BBC and Madden
Film maker John Madden ( Shakespeare in Love, Mrs. Brown, Captain Corelli's Mandolin ) made his first feature film for the BBC around the story of Scott's visit to Poppyland.
BBC and later
* The tapes for the revival of BBC show Doctor Who were labeled with the anagram Torchwood, which later went on to be used as the name for a spin-off show.
Despite this, several features that would later be associated with BBC Master and Archimedes were first features of Electron expansion units, including ROM cartridge slots and the Advanced Disc Filing System — a hierarchical improvement to the BBC's original Disc Filing System.
BBC Text originally launched on digital terrestrial services in 1999, and was later introduced on satellite and cable platforms.
on BBC Radio 4, then later, Channel 4.
The relationship was sometimes awkward and Orwell and Heppenstall even came to blows, though they remained friends and later worked together on BBC broadcasts.
The Doctor was loomed in the House of Lungbarrow in the mountains of South Gallifrey, but unique among the house's cousins he has a belly button ( Lungbarrow suggests this is because he is a re-incarnation of The Other, but later BBC books featuring the Eighth Doctor suggest he actually has a Gallifreyan father and human mother as stated in the 1996 telemovie ).
In 2006, in response to 9 / 11 conspiracy theories surrounding its original news story, the BBC said that confusion had arisen with the common Arabic names, and that its later reports on the hijackers superseded its original story.
On 18 December the BBC broadcast his radio play The Eye of the Beholder ( later revised as The Voice of One ) in which an avante-garde artist is commissioned to paint a church mural.
After filming for Fierce Creatures finished, Palin went on a travel journey for a BBC documentary and, returning a year later, found that the end of Fierce Creatures had failed at test screenings and had to be reshot.
Lloyd later got the opportunity to develop the idea that became the satirical BBC television series Not the Nine O ' clock News.
Schuster later became principal cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Kinnock himself later claimed to have half-expected his defeat in the 1992 election and proceeded to turn himself into a media personality, even hosting a chat show on BBC Wales and twice appearing – with considerable success – on the topical panel show Have I Got News For You within a year of the defeat.
When Cook learned a few years later that the videotapes of the series were to be wiped, a common practice at the time, he offered to buy the recordings from the BBC but was refused because of copyright issues.
The Daily Mail picked up the term four days later, and the BBC then brought it into common use internationally.
In a BBC documentary, called the Death of Yugoslavia, and later in his testimony before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia during the trial of Slobodan Milošević, Yugoslav official Borisav Jović revealed that the Bosnian Serb army arose from the Yugoslav army forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ownership of the concept was retained by the BBC ; Pemberton later told an interviewer for Doctor Who Magazine, " I'm very cross that the sonic screwdriver — which I invented — has been marketed with no credit to myself.
In the later years of the series many Goon Show ' grams ' were produced for the series by members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a notable example being the famous " Major Bloodnok's Stomach " effect, realised by Dick Mills.
Later that year, he was commissioned by the BBC to write and star in Q5, the first in the innovative " Q " TV series, acknowledged as an important precursor to Monty Python's Flying Circus, which premiered several months later.
Der Spiegel later investigated the claims of " living " hijackers by the BBC and discovered them to be cases of mistaken identities.
A few days later, while Herzog was giving an interview to Mark Kermode for the BBC, an unknown individual shot Herzog with an air rifle during filming.
The Commodore 64, BBC Microcomputer and later the Amstrad CPC range were major rivals to the Spectrum in the UK market during the early 1980s.
On 9 June 2009 Mani stated that the band would reform if they were offered enough money but admitted that he's " very nearly given up " on trying to orchestrate a reunion and two months later told BBC Newsbeat how Ian Brown " isn't up for it at all ".
When UHF television allowed a greater number of television stations to broadcast, the BBC launched a second network, BBC Two ( and the original service was later renamed BBC One ).
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