Background
He is the great-grandson of Hollywood pioneer Albert E. Smith, founder of Vitagraph Studios.
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Gareth Edwards
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He has worked on a number of radio and television programmes including Comedy Firsts ( Independent Television, 1995), The Big Town All Stars (British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, 1998), Spaced (Channel 4, 1999), The Bigger Issues (British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, 2000), Parsons and Naylor"s Pull-Out Sections (British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2, 2001), Dead Ringers (British Broadcasting Corporation Two, 2003, 2004), Posh Nosh (British Broadcasting Corporation Two, 2003), Vent (British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, 2006-2009) Edwards also produced The One Ronnie (British Broadcasting Corporation One, 2010), a one-off comedy television sketch show that aired on British Broadcasting Corporation One on Christmas Day 2010 to celebrate the 80th birthday of Ronnie Corbett and Still Open All Hours (British Broadcasting Corporation One Boxing Day 2013). He has also produced Bleak Expectations (British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, 2007-2011), the cult radio show starring Anthony Head and the television spin-off to this, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (British Broadcasting Corporation Two, 2011). Gareth Edwards also produced the short-lived radio comedy series The Airport (British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, 1995), which was the first radio comedy series in Britain to feature self-representative experiences of black people.
Edwards was appointed acting head of radio comedy at the British Broadcasting Corporation from November 2008 to May 2009, though announced subsequently that he was returning to producing and writing.
Achievements
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Edwards produced That Mitchell and Webb Sound (British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, 2003-2009), which won a Sony Silver Award in 2004. He also produced the television version of this, starring the same David Mitchell and Robert Webb, entitled That Mitchell and Webb Look (British Broadcasting Corporation Two, 2006-2010), which won best comedy British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2006.
