Jonathan Thake

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Jonathan Thake is a television writer best known for ‘the slag of all snacks’ campaign for Pot Noodle.^{[citation needed]} His first comedy series, The Persuasionists, premiered on Wednesday 13 January 2010 on BBC2.

Biography

Thake and Lee Tan began working together as a creative team when they were paired by a headhunter in 1997 for a placement with Bartle Bogle Hegarty. The pair were hired by HHCL in 1998, which is the "slag of all snacks" campaign they directed launched in 2002.^[1]

Thake wrote a pilot episode about a fictional advertising agency, "The Scum Also Rises", that was broadcast on BBC3 in 2007. It was picked up by BBC2^[2] and the series, The Persuasionists, premiered on 13 January 2010.^[3]

References

↑ Ford, Piers (2004-03-01). "The Quiet Ones are the Worst". Boards.
↑ Hemley, Matthew (2009-06-11). "BBC2 commissions ad agency sitcom". The Stage.
↑ Keal, Graham (2010-01-12). "I'm nothing like character I play in new comedy The Persuasionists, says Daisy Haggard". The Daily Record.

External links

Jonathan Thake at the Internet Movie Database

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