- Hilary Bevan Jones
Hilary Susan Bevan Jones (born 18th October 1952; sometimes credited as Hilary Bevan-Jones) is a British
television producer , who has worked on several acclaimed drama programmes, including the multi-award-winning "State of Play" (2003). She did not enter the television industry until the age of twenty-seven in 1979, when she gained a job as anassistant floor manager atBBC Television Centre . Previously, she had worked as a teacher inEssex , after having failed in several attempts to gain work in thetheatre .During the 1980s she worked predominantly on comedy programmes such as "
Not the Nine O'Clock News " and "Blackadder ", becoming a producer in 1988, working in that capacity on "Red Dwarf ". In the 1990s she switched to working on drama programming and also left theBBC . She produced "Cracker" forGranada Television , upon which she first worked with the writerPaul Abbott , who went on to write "State of Play", which she produced in 2003."State of Play" was co-produced by
Endor Productions , a company Bevan Jones had co-founded in 1994, but after working on the series with Abbott the pair of them established their own new production company,Tightrope Pictures . Tightrope has produced several dramas for the BBC, including theRichard Curtis piece "The Girl in the Café ", which Bevan Jones produced herself.References
* Brown, Maggie. [http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,1367061,00.html "Don't stop me now..."] (subscription link). "
The Guardian ". MondayDecember 6 2004 .External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0079638/ Hilary Bevan Jones] at the
Internet Movie Database .
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