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SPI Members Invitation:
Phil Edgar Jones was appointed Director of Sky Arts in March 2014 having been Head of Entertainment at Sky since 2012.  Phil will address SPI members to talk about Sky Arts, its aims and ambitions and its commissioning priorities.  The budget for Sky Arts is estimated at £20m. per year.

Date:      Friday 13th June 2014
Time:      9:30am to 11:30am
Venue:    Raddison Blu Hotel,
Golden Lane, D8

Phil Edgar Jones (brief biog.)
Phil Edgar Jones was promoted to Director of Sky Arts in March 2014 to replace James Hunt who had been in the position since 2011. Edgar Jones reports to Stuart Murphy, Director of Entertainment who said on his appointment “..Sky Arts has become the place world class talent want to play,  it has been recognised by all the major awards and receives widespread critical acclaim. I’m confident that Phil will take the Sky Arts brand to the next level, both as a TV channel and as an investor in the arts community – he  is one of the most gifted and experienced TV execs in the UK, with an in depth knowledge of making TV of scale.  Phil’s job will be to recognise crazy ideas and make them massive. We need several big, bold shows that pull in an audience.”
Edgar Jones had been Head of Entertainment at Sky since January 2012 where he oversaw entertainment production across Sky 1 HD, Sky Living HD, Sky Atlantic, HD, Sky Arts HD and Sky Movies HD.
Before Sky, Edgar Jones worked as Creative Director of Running Bare, where he exec produced Very Important People with Morgana Robinson and Terry Mynott, as well as a host of other projects with talent in the John Noel stable.
Prior to that, Edgar Jones was Creative Director of Remarkable Pictures (part of Endemol UK) where he oversaw Big Brother and a number of entertainment projects including the first constructed reality show in the UK, The Salon, Space Cadets, Shattered and Seven Days on the Breadline.
Edgar Jones's credits also include Ginger TV (Exec Producer, The Priory); Absolutely (exec Producing The Jack Docherty Show and working alongside writers such as Mitchell and Webb, Armstrong and Bain, Cecil and Riley); and before that on The Big Breakfast, The Word and The Sunday Show. One of his first jobs was as a writer for a Sky 1 show called Barry's Joy Pad featuring a then unknown performer called David Williams.

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