Jimmy Mulville
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After leaving Cambridge, where he was President of Footlights, Jimmy
produced for BBC Radio, where he developed and produced the awardwinning
Radio Active, before moving to television in 1982 as script
editor and producer for the first series of Alas Smith and Jones. He
went on to co-write and perform in four series of Who Dares Wins for
Channel 4. He is co-founder of Hat Trick Productions, which launched
in 1986. For Hat Trick he co-wrote as well as starred in two series of
Chelmsford 123, before creating the award-winning Have I Got News
For You, which is now in its 14th year. In 1999, along with Denise
O’Donoghue, he received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Creative
Contribution to Television. Jimmy is also a Fellow of the Royal Television
Society and was recently given an honorary doctorate from the
University of Liverpool.
