Timothy "Tim" Graham is a British

United Kingdom

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, RTS

Royal Television Society

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 Award-winning TV Producer, journalist and former television presenter, currently chairman and founder of Soho-based Fin London.

Television career

Graham started his TV career as researcher on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 show Number 73

No. 73

No 73, later re-titled 7T3, was a British 1980s children's TV show produced by Television South for the ITV network. It was broadcast live on Saturday mornings and ran from 1982 to 1988...

 (1983–1984) and music associate (1985) and presenter on Channel 4

Channel 4

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's BAFTA-winning Wired (1988), which involved working with artists including Elton John

Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...

, Miles Davis

Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...

, Paul Weller

Paul Weller

Paul Weller is an English singer-songwriter. Starting with the band The Jam , Weller then went on to branch out musically to a more soulful style with The Style Council...

, Nina Simone

Nina Simone

Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...

, Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

, Al Green

Al Green

Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...

 and Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop

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He also co-devised BBC Children's series What's That Noise!, which won a Royal Television Society

Royal Television Society

The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...

 Children's Entertainment Award in 1992.

In 1997, Tim was promoted to deputy editor of cable and satellite channel Granada

Granada

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 Talk TV

In the late 1990s, Graham became Executive producer

Executive producer

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 for shows including Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay

Gordon James Ramsay, OBE is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars....

's television series Beyond Boiling Point

Boiling Point (1998 miniseries)

Boiling Point is a five-part, 1999 Channel 4 documentary miniseries produced by Tim Graham and David Nath for London Weekend Television and following Chef Gordon Ramsay...

, LWT, (2000-1), having previously filmed original 1997 pilot and A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play, also titled An American Tragedy, which was adapted by Patrick Kearney from the novel. It tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women; one who...

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In early 2001, Tim was promoted to Deputy Managing Director of LWT's digital unit The Lab - having previously been its Head of Development - where he reported to Managing Director Ralph Jones.