Ian Lorimer

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Ian Lorimer is a television director, most noted for being the director for the British panel game QI . He is also a director of Room 101 .

Formerly a freelance vision mixer, Lorimer is well known in the British television industry for winning a court case against the Inland Revenue over his tax status as a freelancer, which served as a precedent for many other media workers.


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