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Twenty Six 03 founder, Duncan Gray<\/strong>, has been responsible for bringing some of the most popular, memorable and ground-breaking entertainment shows to TV audiences in the UK and the US over the past 25 years.<\/p>\r\n He started his career working on BBC’s London radio station, GLR, with Chris Evans before joining Evans at Planet 24 where he developed Channel 4’s\u00a0The Big Breakfast\u00a0and series edited Channel 4’s\u00a0The Word.\u00a0 From there he became Planet 24’s Development Executive in Los Angeles where he developed\u00a0Survivor, before returning to the UK as Executive Producer of\u00a0The Big Breakfast, revitalising the show with Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen.<\/p>\r\n He co-founded At It Productions before being appointed Controller of Entertainment at Granada, launching ITV’s flagship entertainment series including Ant & Dec’s\u00a0Saturday Night Takeaway\u00a0and\u00a0Popstars: The Rivals.<\/p>\r\n In the US he was appointed Vice President, Alternative Series and Specials, at ABC Entertainment where he launched\u00a0Extreme Makeover: Home Edition\u00a0and became Executive Producer on\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live\u00a0for three years.<\/p>\r\n On return to the UK, his appointment as Controller of Entertainment at ITV saw him commission\u00a0Britain’s Got Talent\u00a0and oversee\u00a0The X Factor\u00a0and\u00a0Harry Hill’s TV Burp.\u00a0 As subsequent Head of Entertainment for Sky 1 he commissioned some of the channel’s biggest shows to date including\u00a0Got To Dance\u00a0and\u00a0League of Their Own.\u00a0 Duncan was Creative Director at Princess Productions until he founded TwentySix03 in 2015 winning his first major commission,\u00a0Bring The Noise, an all-new music and comedy entertainment series with a stellar line-up for Sky 1.<\/p>\r\n Twenty Six 03 Managing Director, Antonia Hurford-Jones, has been working in television for the past twenty-four years and is an experienced channel head, commissioner, head of department and executive producer in the world Entertainment and Factual Entertainment.\u00a0 She started her career working on BBC Question Time until she was poached by Chris Evans to work on Don\u2019t Forget Your Toothbrush and subsequently help him develop TFI Friday.\u00a0 From there she gained experience producing a wide variety of non-scripted series including comedy entertainment documentaries for Tiger Aspect (My Favourite Frasier, Channel Izzard, Harry Enfield Undressed, The Story of Bean) and reinvigorating C4\u2019s Saturday nights with archive-based, factual entertainment series at North One Television (Top Ten Love Songs, Heartbreakers, TV Losers\u2026).<\/p>\r\n She ran the entertainment departments at Shine and Whizz Kid Entertainment (including pitching and exec producing BBC2\u2019s The Story of Light Entertainment, C4\u2019s youth format Musicool, a revamped Clothes Show, three series of BBC1\u2019s Let\u2019s Dance for Comic Relief) before going in-house at the BBC to executive produce The Royal Variety Show with Michael McIntyre hosting.<\/p>\r\n Joining Sky as their Commissioner for Entertainment, Antonia executive produced their existing slate of programming including A League of Their Own and Got To Dance and commissioned new series including Adam Buxton\u2019s BUG, Duck Quacks Don\u2019t Echo and Portrait Artist of the Year.<\/p>\r\n Prior to joining Twenty Six 03 she had been running the channel Sky Living for three years, acquiring hit US series (eg The Blacklist, Hannibal, Scandal) and commissioning across scripted and non-scripted, including the drama series Enfield Haunting, the scripted comedy Doll and Em and entertainment series The Face and Desi Rascals.<\/p>\r\n Gateshead Office: London Office:![\"00758b](\"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AJ.jpg\")
<\/p>\r\nAntonia Hurford-Jones – Managing Director<\/h3>\r\n
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Baltimore House | Baltic Business Centre | Abbot’s Hill |\u00a0\u00a0Gateshead | NE8 3DF<\/p>\r\n
32 Bedford Row\u00a0 |\u00a0 London\u00a0 |\u00a0 WC1R 4HE<\/p>\r\nContact<\/h2>\r\n