Jon Thoday
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JONATHAN MURRAY THODAY
Jon Thoday is the founder of the Avalon Group of Companies which includes Avalon Live Entertainment, Avalon Management Group, Flame Television, Topical Television, Liberty Bell Productions and Tinderbox. In partnership with Richard Allen-Turner, the group now manages acts as wide-ranging as Frank Skinner and David Baddiel, Harry Hill, Al Murray, Russell Howard, Adrian Childs and Christine Bleakley. The Group produces a range of entertainment programmes including the highly successful TV Burp and Not Going Out, as well as factual formats such as Heir Hunters, Grumpy Old Men, and Seaside Rescue.
Thoday has frequently courted controversy with his adversarial attitude towards broadcasters - famously falling out with the BBC over fees for Frank Skinner which saw the comedian labelled as "the greediest man in Britain" - and more recently over the move of Christine Bleakley and Adrian Childs from BBC1 where their "One Show" enjoyed enormous success, to ITV, where their breakfast show was heavily criticised.
Along with BBC Directior General Mark Thompson, Thoday was accused of blasphemy for his role as the producer of The Jerry Spinger Show. The charge was unsuccessful.
Thoday is married to Leanne Newman.