Jack's Throwback Attack Podcast - S6 E3 - A Chat With Tim Edmunds (Part 1 of 2)

Yes a two part interview! Because we recorded so much stuff over two recording sessions, this is a chat with former TV producer Tim Edmunds. 

You can also listen to the chat on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 

I feel really lucky to have got this one as Tim hasn't done many interviews as far as I know. He is responsible for creating and working on so many iconic 90s shows that I remember well. 

Tim's TV career started out in the 1970s as a researcher for Southern Television (the then ITV franchise holder for the South East of England). Working on shows such as The Saturday Banana, Runaround and HOW. 

In 1982, Southern Television was taken over by TVS (Television South), Tim was a producer for TVS on the likes of Do It, On Safari and No.73. It was whilst working on No.73 where he met Neil Buchanan which would lead to a professional partnership which would fuel much of his TV career. 

In the late 1980s, under the collective name of The Media Merchants. Neil and Tim created a children's art show called Art Attack. A pilot was filmed in 1989 and the show was green lit with the first edition airing in June 1990. Art Attack would go on to run for 17 years. 

In 1993, history repeated itself when TVS lost it's ITV franchise and was taken over by Meridian. By this point Tim and Neil had set up The Media Merchants as a company to continue making Art Attack. Over the next 15 years they produced the likes of Zzzap!, It's a Mystery, Animal Crazy, Terror Towers, WOW and many more.

In this first part of the interview we chat about Tim's early career with Southern Television and TVS and Art Attack. Part two will be out on January 5th.