Book Description
256 pages. 20 caricature illustrations. Includes a list of British Breakfast Television Personnel under programme headings with job titles and dates.
From the Publisher
The first book to tell the full story of British breakfast television from its inception in 1983 right up to January 2004. A lively account.
About the Author
IAN JONES writes on television for the acclaimed websites Off The Telly (offthetelly.co.uk) and TV Cream (tv.cream.org). His work has covered topics as diverse as Nationwide, The Simpsons, TV theme composers, the Seven Up series, Treasure Hunt, youth TV, Alan Bleasdale, I, Claudius and the history of Channel 4, and has received recommendations from, amongst others, the British Film Institute and the Observer newspaper. In 2000, he conceived and edited Off The Telly’s self-published project TV24: British Television On March 9, 2000, documenting and analysing an entire 24 hours of output on UK terrestrial television. In addition to being the editor of TV Cream’s weekly e-mail guide to digital television and radio, Ian has also contributed articles to Scriptwriter magazine and has participated in programmes on TV history for Granada Television and Channel 4.
