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4 unusual facts about Jeremy Isaacs


Frank Cvitanovich

Cvitanovich’s greatest work was for Thames Television during the 1970s, under the enlightened reign of Director of Programmes Jeremy Isaacs.

Jeremy Isaacs

Ted Turner sought out Isaacs (confusing him with the actor Jeremy Irons) for the role of executive producer for his 1998 24-episode Cold War series.

In 1990, Isaacs named a four-hour dramatisation of an early Percy Bysshe Shelley Gothic horror novel, Zastrozzi (1986), as one of the 10 programmes of which he was most proud during his tenure as Channel 4's chief executive.

Mary Allen

In mid-1996, with the retirement of then general director Jeremy Isaacs approaching with a year, consideration of a likely successor generated some speculation in the British press.



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