Tim Dixon
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Tim Dixon is an English
television presenter who rose to promise in 2003. Aged just 21, in 2005 he was described by Flextech
as "The best young up-and-coming television presenting talent in the UK".
, a selective grammar school in Plymouth
, between 1995 and 2002 - a school with a reputation for outstanding academic excellence. Here, Dixon was awarded the Sutton High School Oxford Memorial Prize, in 2000, for achieving more than 5 A* grades at GCSE.
performing close-up magic in bars, restaurants and at private functions.
Dixon won the prestigious Grant Cup competition in 1997, for a close-up act which he collaborated on with Dominic Wood
. The same act later saw Dixon come second in the international finals of the Young Close-Up Magician of the Year Awards, run by The Young Magician's Club - the youth initiative of The Magic Circle
.
The media exposure that followed included a guest appearance on The Disney Channel, in 1999. Soon after, Dixon was appointed Disney's "resident magician" and continued to make regular appearances on Studio Disney
until 2001.
Dixon famously performed magic on Freddy Fresh
and Fatboy Slim
's hit single Badder Badder Schwing, in 1999.
Dixon performed a number of magic tutorials for AOL
in 2006
Tim made his television debut on The Disney Channel (UK)
's "Sword and Sorcery Weekend" in early 1999.
Soon after he was selected to star in a 4-minute pop video, performing magic, for Badder Badder Schwing by Freddy Fresh and Fatboy Slim
. The music video was released in 12 countries across the globe and went on to reach number 34 in the UK Singles Chart
in 1999, with further successes abroad, most notably in America. The video also featured on BBC1's The Ozone, ITV1's Clubber Vision, MTV and The Box.
Dixon soon became a regular face on Studio Disney and made numerous appearances over the next three years. He also represented Disney at several corporate events including Pop 2000 at the Birmingham NEC and toured the country as part of Disney's Kids Awards Roadshows in 2000 and 2001 - appearing in shows in Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Reading, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Coventry, and Croydon.
He then went on to front CITV
in 2003, making his first appearance on 3 January - as part of CITV's 20th Birthday celebrations. He also appeared as a guest on ITV's flagship Saturday morning show SM:TV Live.
After some time spent working in radio (Plymouth Sound FM
, BBC Radio 5 Live
, BBC Radio Devon
), within a production capacity in the independent sector (Twofour Productions) and presenting on satellite channels, in 2006 Tim was invited to make his return to ITV as part of the presenting launch team for ITV Play
, in Manchester.
Over the next 12 months he hosted a shows including This Morning Puzzle Book and Play DJ, Friends Reunited: The School Run (between March and September 2006) and The Common Room (September–December 2006)
In 2007 Dixon became a celebrity interviewer and red-carpet roving reporter for Box Office Boys, BFBS. Work has included coverage of A Quantum of Solace, The Bourne Ultimatum
, Transformers
, Sleuth
, Run Fatboy Run
and St Trinians premiers – interviewing Daniel Craig
, Michael Caine
, Kenneth Branagh
, Jude Law
, Matt Damon
, Julia Stiles
, David Schwimmer
, Simon Pegg
and Russell Brand
.
Summer 2008 saw Dixon land arguably his biggest break to date - replacing Stephen Mulhern
as the new presenter of 30 episodes of children's’ make-and-do show Finger Tips
– which was TX from early September on ITV1, the CITV Channel and Super RTL in Germany.
In 2009 Dixon was invited to become the main anchor host and content producer for all BFBS Television's children's output, fronting Room 785 (a live, studio-based format, broadcast every weekday afternoon and Saturday morning) and Telly-Tots (BFBS's early morning breakfast show aimed at a pre-school audience). On 2 May 2009, Tim became the face of BFBS 3 Kids - a new channel dedicated to the children of the armed forces.
2010 saw Dixon busy presenting numerous corporate events including Marketing Week Live at London's Olympia Exhibition Centre, fronting a family gameshow for ITV - due to form the centerpiece of ITV's new online natural history archive, itvWILD, fronting various online productions and making his panto debut at the Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre, as Prince Charming in Cinderella
Inside Media originally operated as a 'digital agency' specialising in rich-media and social-media marketing - producing websites and online marketing campaigns for numerous high-end blue chip corporate clients including BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Introducing and the BBC Asian Network.
In early 2008 Inside Media launched a production wing and now focuses on corporate media production projects, for clients including telecommunications giant Amdocs. Inside Media also represents a select group of television presenting talent and in 2009 began supplying artists for nationwide corporate roadshows, for clients including Sony UK, alongside a number of leading youth marketing agencies.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
television presenter who rose to promise in 2003. Aged just 21, in 2005 he was described by Flextech
Flextech
Living TV Group was a British television content subsidiary of British Sky Broadcasting. It is now defunct as a company but Sky Living, Sky Livingit, Sky Living Loves and Challenge are still in operation by BSkyB.-Overview:...
as "The best young up-and-coming television presenting talent in the UK".
Education
Dixon was educated at Devonport High School for BoysDevonport High School for Boys
Devonport High School for Boys is a Grammar School and Type 2 Academy, for boys aged 11 to 18, in Plymouth, Devon, England. It has around 1100 pupils. Its catchment area includes southwest Devon and southeast Cornwall as well as Plymouth...
, a selective grammar school in Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...
, between 1995 and 2002 - a school with a reputation for outstanding academic excellence. Here, Dixon was awarded the Sutton High School Oxford Memorial Prize, in 2000, for achieving more than 5 A* grades at GCSE.
Early Magical Career
Dixon was, upon joining in 1995, the youngest ever member of the Plymouth Magic Circle. He made numerous appearances in PlymouthPlymouth
Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...
performing close-up magic in bars, restaurants and at private functions.
Dixon won the prestigious Grant Cup competition in 1997, for a close-up act which he collaborated on with Dominic Wood
Dominic Wood
Dominic Simon "Dom" Wood is an English entertainer, magician and presenter of radio and television, best known as one half of the double act Dick and Dom, with the other being Richard McCourt....
. The same act later saw Dixon come second in the international finals of the Young Close-Up Magician of the Year Awards, run by The Young Magician's Club - the youth initiative of The Magic Circle
The Magic Circle
The Magic Circle is a British organisation, founded in London in 1905, dedicated to promoting and advancing the art of magic.- History :The Magic Circle was founded in 1905 after a meeting of 23 amateur and professional magicians at London's Pinoli's Restaurant...
.
The media exposure that followed included a guest appearance on The Disney Channel, in 1999. Soon after, Dixon was appointed Disney's "resident magician" and continued to make regular appearances on Studio Disney
Studio Disney
Studio Disney was a show that aired on Disney Channel Asia and Disney Channel Australia. It aired in Asia from July 2003 until the 25th of September 2005, and in Australia from Monday October 4, 1999 until 2006...
until 2001.
Dixon famously performed magic on Freddy Fresh
Freddy Fresh
Freddy Fresh is among the most active and prolific American underground dance music musicians, having released more than a hundred records on many record labels...
and Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim
Norman Quentin Cook better known by his former stage name Fatboy Slim, is a British DJ, electronic dance music musician, and record producer. He is a pioneer of the big beat genre that achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s...
's hit single Badder Badder Schwing, in 1999.
Dixon performed a number of magic tutorials for AOL
AOL
AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...
in 2006
Television and Radio Career
Tim Dixon is a British television presenter/producer and Managing Director of a media company.Tim made his television debut on The Disney Channel (UK)
Disney Channel (UK)
Disney Channel is a children's entertainment channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1 October 1995. A one hour timeshift service called Disney Channel +1 is available on Sky and Virgin Media...
's "Sword and Sorcery Weekend" in early 1999.
Soon after he was selected to star in a 4-minute pop video, performing magic, for Badder Badder Schwing by Freddy Fresh and Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim
Norman Quentin Cook better known by his former stage name Fatboy Slim, is a British DJ, electronic dance music musician, and record producer. He is a pioneer of the big beat genre that achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s...
. The music video was released in 12 countries across the globe and went on to reach number 34 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
in 1999, with further successes abroad, most notably in America. The video also featured on BBC1's The Ozone, ITV1's Clubber Vision, MTV and The Box.
Dixon soon became a regular face on Studio Disney and made numerous appearances over the next three years. He also represented Disney at several corporate events including Pop 2000 at the Birmingham NEC and toured the country as part of Disney's Kids Awards Roadshows in 2000 and 2001 - appearing in shows in Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Reading, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Coventry, and Croydon.
He then went on to front CITV
CITV
CITV is a British television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive, as well as commissions and acquisitions. CITV itself is the programming block on the main ITV Network .The CITV channel broadcasts from 06:00 to 18:00...
in 2003, making his first appearance on 3 January - as part of CITV's 20th Birthday celebrations. He also appeared as a guest on ITV's flagship Saturday morning show SM:TV Live.
After some time spent working in radio (Plymouth Sound FM
Plymouth Sound FM
Heart Plymouth was an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Plymouth in Devon, England.-History:The name heritage name Plymouth Sound was a pun on the popular meaning of sound and the bay of Plymouth Sound between Penlee Point and Wembury Point in Devon.In November 2005 it was announced...
, BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries...
, BBC Radio Devon
BBC Radio Devon
BBC Radio Devon is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Devon. It began transmissions on 17 January 1983, replacing a previous breakfast show for Devon and Cornwall broadcast on the local frequencies of Radio 4....
), within a production capacity in the independent sector (Twofour Productions) and presenting on satellite channels, in 2006 Tim was invited to make his return to ITV as part of the presenting launch team for ITV Play
ITV Play
ITV Play was a 24/7 participation television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. The ITV Play name continued on the ITV Network until December 2007....
, in Manchester.
Over the next 12 months he hosted a shows including This Morning Puzzle Book and Play DJ, Friends Reunited: The School Run (between March and September 2006) and The Common Room (September–December 2006)
In 2007 Dixon became a celebrity interviewer and red-carpet roving reporter for Box Office Boys, BFBS. Work has included coverage of A Quantum of Solace, The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bourne Ultimatum is the third Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum and a sequel to The Bourne Supremacy . First published in 1990, it was the last Bourne novel to be written by Ludlum himself. Eric Van Lustbader wrote a sequel titled The Bourne Legacy fourteen years later.A film titled...
, Transformers
Transformers
A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling.Transformer may also refer to:* ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet computer manufacturer by Asus...
, Sleuth
Sleuth
-Theatre and film:*Sleuth , a 1970 play by Anthony Shaffer*Sleuth , a film adaptation of the Anthony Shaffer play, directed by Joseph L...
, Run Fatboy Run
Run Fatboy Run
Run Fatboy Run is a 2007 British comedy film directed by David Schwimmer, written by Michael Ian Black and Simon Pegg, and starring Pegg, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton, Harish Patel, India de Beaufort, and Hank Azaria...
and St Trinians premiers – interviewing Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...
, Michael Caine
Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine, CBE is an English actor. He won Academy Awards for best supporting actor in both Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules ....
, Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V , Much Ado About Nothing , Hamlet Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from...
, Jude Law
Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989...
, Matt Damon
Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting , from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck...
, Julia Stiles
Julia Stiles
Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...
, David Schwimmer
David Schwimmer
David Lawrence Schwimmer is an American actor and director of television and film. He was born in New York City, and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was two. He began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern...
, Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and director. He is best known for having co-written and stared in various Edgar Wright features, mainly Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the comedy series Spaced.He also portrayed Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the 2009 Star Trek film...
and Russell Brand
Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, columnist, singer, author and radio/television presenter.Brand achieved mainstream fame in the UK in 2004 for his role as host of Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother's Big Mouth. His first major film role was in the 2007 film St Trinians...
.
Summer 2008 saw Dixon land arguably his biggest break to date - replacing Stephen Mulhern
Stephen Mulhern
Stephen Daniel Mulhern is a British TV presenter, entertainer, and former magician. He began presenting in the studio on CITV in May 1998 and became a leading presenter until he left in August 2002. He has presented a number of shows, including SMTV Live, Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown and...
as the new presenter of 30 episodes of children's’ make-and-do show Finger Tips
Finger Tips
Finger Tips is a television programme produced by RDF Media's Children's production division, The Foundation. It is made primarily for CITV and was first broadcast in 2001....
– which was TX from early September on ITV1, the CITV Channel and Super RTL in Germany.
In 2009 Dixon was invited to become the main anchor host and content producer for all BFBS Television's children's output, fronting Room 785 (a live, studio-based format, broadcast every weekday afternoon and Saturday morning) and Telly-Tots (BFBS's early morning breakfast show aimed at a pre-school audience). On 2 May 2009, Tim became the face of BFBS 3 Kids - a new channel dedicated to the children of the armed forces.
2010 saw Dixon busy presenting numerous corporate events including Marketing Week Live at London's Olympia Exhibition Centre, fronting a family gameshow for ITV - due to form the centerpiece of ITV's new online natural history archive, itvWILD, fronting various online productions and making his panto debut at the Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre, as Prince Charming in Cinderella
Production Company
Dixon has worked extensively within television production; recent roles have included those of a Production Manager for Discovery, a Live Gallery Producer for ITV and as part of UKTV's Commissioning Team. Whilst not presenting, he manages his own independent production company, Inside Media Group.Inside Media originally operated as a 'digital agency' specialising in rich-media and social-media marketing - producing websites and online marketing campaigns for numerous high-end blue chip corporate clients including BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Introducing and the BBC Asian Network.
In early 2008 Inside Media launched a production wing and now focuses on corporate media production projects, for clients including telecommunications giant Amdocs. Inside Media also represents a select group of television presenting talent and in 2009 began supplying artists for nationwide corporate roadshows, for clients including Sony UK, alongside a number of leading youth marketing agencies.