Strictly's developer and first Exec producer Richard Hopkins has died aged 47.
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R.I.P Richard
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“The highly creative TV Producer and MD of Fever Media, Richard Hopkins passed away on Saturday 7th January 2012. He was just 47 years of age.
Step2TV send their conolences and we're sure Richards legacy will live on through the company, his family and of course the smash hit TV shows he created.
Here is a statement from the Fever website:
Richard was co-founder and joint managing director of Fever and the life and soul of our company, so his death has left us all shocked and saddened beyond belief.
Richard was one of the most gifted TV producers of his generation and one of the few people who could genuinely claim to have changed the TV landscape. He had an extraordinary career and his CV is a long list of some of the most successful shows of the last twenty years.
He was the Executive Producer of Fame Academy, The Big Breakfast and Fear Factor. As a series producer he worked on the BAFTA award winning first series of Big Brother and was series producer of the ground breaking comedy series the 11 O'Clock Show.
Richard developed, pitched and went onto produce Strictly Come Dancing, which has won numerous awards and has been officially recognised as the world's most successful reality TV format. The format has sold to well over 30 different countries and it was Richard's personal persistence and unique mixture of charm and persuasiveness that first got the show sold in America. Richard then went to America to executive produce the show which was rechristened Dancing With The Stars for the ABC network. To this day it remains one of the most successful shows on American Television.
All of us at Fever feel extraordinarily lucky to have known Richard as both a creative collaborator and friend. Richard cared about television hugely, but the centre of his life was his family. At this terrible time our hearts go out his wife Katy and his three beautiful girls Angelica, Joséphine and Julianna.
http://step2inspire.tv/newspost/rich...g-passes-away/”
“The highly creative TV Producer and MD of Fever Media, Richard Hopkins passed away on Saturday 7th January 2012. He was just 47 years of age.
Step2TV send their conolences and we're sure Richards legacy will live on through the company, his family and of course the smash hit TV shows he created.
Here is a statement from the Fever website:
Richard was co-founder and joint managing director of Fever and the life and soul of our company, so his death has left us all shocked and saddened beyond belief.
Richard was one of the most gifted TV producers of his generation and one of the few people who could genuinely claim to have changed the TV landscape. He had an extraordinary career and his CV is a long list of some of the most successful shows of the last twenty years.
He was the Executive Producer of Fame Academy, The Big Breakfast and Fear Factor. As a series producer he worked on the BAFTA award winning first series of Big Brother and was series producer of the ground breaking comedy series the 11 O'Clock Show.
Richard developed, pitched and went onto produce Strictly Come Dancing, which has won numerous awards and has been officially recognised as the world's most successful reality TV format. The format has sold to well over 30 different countries and it was Richard's personal persistence and unique mixture of charm and persuasiveness that first got the show sold in America. Richard then went to America to executive produce the show which was rechristened Dancing With The Stars for the ABC network. To this day it remains one of the most successful shows on American Television.
All of us at Fever feel extraordinarily lucky to have known Richard as both a creative collaborator and friend. Richard cared about television hugely, but the centre of his life was his family. At this terrible time our hearts go out his wife Katy and his three beautiful girls Angelica, Joséphine and Julianna.
http://step2inspire.tv/newspost/rich...g-passes-away/”
R.I.P Richard
R.I.P Richard.
