Jon Magnusson (producer)
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- Magnus Magnusson (father)
- Mamie Baird (mother)
Jon Magnusson | |
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| Born | May 1965 (age 60) |
| Occupations | Television producer, writer and director |
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| Relatives | Sally Magnusson (sister) |
Jon Magnusson (born May 1965)[1] is a British producer, writer and director. He is the son of Magnus Magnusson, the original presenter of Mastermind and Mamie Baird, a journalist, and a brother of TV presenter Sally Magnusson.
Magnusson produced the medical sketch show Struck Off and Die,[2] several editions of the spoof radio panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, and episodes of the sketch series Bremner, Bird and Fortune[3] and Alas Smith and Jones[4] on television. He wrote the original music for the 1994 BBC Radio 4 series 'The Skivers'.[5]
He has a long involvement with Graham Norton, as producer of So Graham Norton (1999), Graham Norton's Bigger Picture (2005), and series producer of The Graham Norton Show (2009–2018).[3][6][7]
Magnusson was awarded a BAFTA for Best Entertainment Programme or Series for The Graham Norton Show in 2013,[8] and for So Graham Norton in 2001,[9] and was nominated for the same award for the same programme in 2000.[9] Magnusson was also nominated for another BAFTA, the Best Light Entertainment award, for impressionist show Rory Bremner, Who Else?[9]
Magnusson credits Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones ("the Guv'nors") with teaching him to write comedy,[6] and has written for Bremner, Bird and Fortune and So Graham Norton.[3]
