Sydney Newman

...Motors Theatre before in 1958 leaving Canada to live and work in the United Kingdom. He was inspired by his compatriot Sydney Newman, who had been the Director of Drama at the CBC and had moved across to the UK to take up a similar...

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..."a futile waste". 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. He left the UK on January 3, 1970, leading ''The Sunday Times '' to...

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...next month. The Avengers began life when the head of the Associated British Corporation suggested to his director of drama, Sydney Newman, that ABC s line-up might be better balanced with the addition of lighter fare, such as a thriller.

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...most common. The most successful era of Armchair Theatre is generally regarded as being that overseen by the Canadian producer Sydney Newman, who was ABC's Head of Drama from 1958 to 1962, and who personally produced more than forty...

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...subjects in the then-popular "kitchen sink realism" style, yet still managed to gain a mass audience. The Canadian producer Sydney Newman, who was ABC's Head of Drama from 1958 to 1962, turned Armchair Theatre into a vehicle for the...

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...to ''The Avengers in 1965. He wrote a few more scripts for the Emma Peel era before being tapped by Sydney Newman to script edit Adam Adamant Lives! When Newman cancelled that show, he returned to The Avengers, for which he was a dominant...

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...This Week '' before securing employment at ABC television . At ABC, she worked as a story editor for producer Sydney Newman on the anthology series ''Armchair Theatre, overseeing such plays as "Where I Live" by Clive Exton, "A...

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And Captain Jack Harkness is the first dashing and athletic male lead since Ian Chesterton But even Mr Newman's foresight failed him on occasion. One of the cardinal rules for the new show, spelled out in one of the newly-released...

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A plot written for the original Doctor but rejected, called Troubleshooters, can be seen in Torchwood But even Mr Newman's foresight failed him on occasion. One of the cardinal rules for the new show, spelled out in one of the...

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...in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. Initially a film editor with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Newman later moved into television with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he began his long...

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