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Nick Elliott, born 1944, was a senior executive for ITV, best known for his work in Drama. Having joined Granada in 1963 as a Production Trainee, he moved to London Weekend Television in 1972 as Producer and later Editor of Weekend World, a current affairs programme introduced by Peter Jay. In 1977 became Head of Features, introducing amongst other programmes The South Bank Show with Melvyn Bragg and producing an award winning ice ballet with Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Fire And Ice. In 1981 he was made LWT's Head of Drama where over the next ten years he executive produced numerous films (The Tall Guy, Handful of Dust, Where Angels Fear To Tread,Blue Money, Dutch Girls) and many successful series (Mapp And Lucia, Dempsey And Maakepiece, The Charmer, London's Burning, Agatha Christie's Poirot). After the takeover of LWT by Granada he went to the BBC in 1994 for a brief period as Head of Drama Series, where he introduced Ballykissangel and Silent Witness but moved back to ITV the following year as Head of Drama. Elliott stayed in ITV until his retirement in 2007 and in those 13 years commissioned films such as Hillsborough and Bloody Sunday as well as feature film such as The Queen starring Helen Mirren. He introduced many series -At Home With The Braithwaites, Fat Friends, Doc Martin, Bad Girls, Footballers Wives, Touching Evil - as well as overseeing Coronation Street and Emmerdale.