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RockitRon



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:27 am    Post subject: Sir Bill Cotton Reply with quote

I expect everyone has heard the news that Sir Bill Cotton has died, but I thought it merited a thread.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2542794/Sir-Bill-Cotton.html

Quite apart from having a famous father, and being the spitting image of him, he presided over and brought to our television screens a right royal procession of high quality family entertainment programmes, most of which (Morecambe & Wise, Two Ronnies, Val Doonican etc) had their roots in old-fashioned Variety. He still preferred to sign people up by taking them out to dinner, rather than poring over costings and ratings - he frequently bemoaned the change to the more money-conscious way of doing things which happened while he was still at the BBC.

His going spells the end of an era, and of a dynasty - there is still Fearne Cotton, but she's a distant relative and perhaps not quite in the same league.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was Sir Bill more than anyone who gave Morecambe and Wise a chance to make a TV comeback after Eric's first heart attack.

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