Hilary Bevan Jones

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Hilary Bevan Jones
OccupationTelevision producer
Years active1979–present

Hilary Bevan Jones is a British television producer. In 1994 she started Endor Productions, choosing the name from that of the novel The Road to Endor by E. H. Jones, her grandfather. [1] [2] [3] [4] [2] Endor has produced series such as Deep State and Vienna Blood . [5] [6]

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Career

Bevan Jones started work as an floor assistant at the BBC in 1979; she had previously worked as a teacher in Essex, after trying without success to get work in theatre. She worked on comedy programmes such as Not the Nine O'Clock News and Blackadder . [1]

She left the BBC in 1990. She worked on Cracker for Granada Television, where she first worked with the writer Paul Abbott. [1] After she again worked with Abbott on State of Play in 2003, they together started Tightrope Pictures, which produced the Richard Curtis piece The Girl in the Café , starring Bill Nighy and produced by Bevan Jones. [1]

She was chairman of BAFTA from 2006 to 2008, the first woman in that position. [7] [1]

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