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- Brian_Tesler abstract "Brian Tesler's career encompassed virtually the whole of British television's post-war evolution from a single-channel BBC to the beginning of today’s multitude of cable and satellite channels. In the course of it he worked as a producer in both the BBC and Independent Television in the 1950s, launching the television careers of Bruce Forsyth and Roy Castle among many others. He devised the Billy Cotton Band Show and British Television's first request show Ask Pickles with Wilfred Pickles, and worked with countless stars of stage and screen from Julie Andrews and Petula Clark to Tony Bennett and Mario Lanza.He joined BBC Television as a trainee Light Entertainment producer in 1952 and was put in charge of the Department's output of panel games, both finding and producing them, which he proceeded to do by introducing Guess My Story, Find the Link, The Tall Story Club and The Name's the Same. With fellow trainee Ernest Maxin he co-produced and directed the first television comedy series by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, And So to Bentley, starring Dick Bentley, Peter Sellers and Bill Fraser. He went on to produce series with Bob Monkhouse, Petula Clark, Billy Cotton, whose Band Show Wakey! Wakey! he devised, Ask Pickles, British television's first request series, which he also devised, and Bathnight with Braden, starring Bernard Braden and written by Muir and Norden, which was BBC Television's first weekly comedy series, such shows until then only being broadcast fortnightly.At ATV from 1957 to 1960 he took over Sunday Night at the London Palladium, produced specials built round such international artistes as Rosemary Clooney and Johnnie Ray, devised and produced series of Val Parnell's Saturday Spectaculars with Max Bygraves, Dickie Henderson, Arthur Askey, Harry Secombe and Dave King, and devised and produced New Look, a revue with a team of new performers including Bruce Forsyth and Roy Castle, whose television careers the series kick-started. In 1957 he won BAFTAS's first award for Light Entertainment Production when the Academy was still the Society of Film and Television Arts.As a Director of Programmes at ITV during the 1960s and 1970s, he commissioned The World at War, produced Sammy Davis Jr's first British TV show, and oversaw the first British television shows of Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee. He introduced ITV's first weekly series dedicated to the arts with Tempo, British television's first late night chat show with Eamonn Andrews' Live from London and its first hidden camera show Candid Camera with Bob Monkhouse. He was a founder-director of both Thames Television and Channel Four, and managing director, and then chairman and managing director of London Weekend Television. He worked for four legendary broadcasting bosses: Ronnie Waldman, Lew Grade, Howard Thomas and John Freeman; and when he became a broadcasting boss himself he successively appointed three future legends as his Director of Programmes at LWT: Michael Grade, John Birt and Greg Dyke.".
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