• Times. 12 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023. Bill Cotton at IMDb Bill Cotton at British Comedy Guide Sir Bill Cotton – Obituary from The Guardian...
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    Thomas Bryant Cotton (born May 13, 1977) is an American politician, attorney, and former military officer serving as the junior United States senator from...
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    executive Sir Bill Cotton (1928–2008) was her paternal grandfather's cousin. He was the son of the well-known entertainer and band leader Billy Cotton. In August...
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  • "Cotton-Eyed Joe" (also known as "Cotton-Eye Joe") is a traditional American country folk song popular at various times throughout the United States and...
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    Contest 1974 was produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Bill Cotton served as executive producer, Michael Hurll served as producer and director...
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    the new venue. The Cotton Club was a whites-only establishment with rare exceptions for black celebrities such as Ethel Waters and Bill Robinson. It reproduced...
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  • running for almost two decades, between May 1975 and July 1994. Devised by Bill Cotton, the show encouraged children to write a letter to Savile with a "wish"...
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  • William Edward Cotton (6 May 1899 – 25 March 1969) as Billy Cotton was an English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived...
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  • sketch show starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It was created by Bill Cotton and aired on BBC1 from 10 April 1971 to 25 December 1987. The usual format...
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    Cillablack.com. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2020. Cotton, Bill. Double Bill: Bill Cotton - 80 Years of Entertainment. Fourth Estate Ltd (2001). ISBN 978-1841153285...
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  • African cotton producing countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali), and Australia (2-2.5 percent). Under a 2015 version of the U.S. farm bill, cotton would...
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  • Hiddleston, which was directed by Clio Barnard. In 2023 Jibson played Bill Cotton in the BBC mini series series The Reckoning, starring Steve Coogan as...
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  • "Cotton Eye Joe" is a song by Swedish country pop group Rednex, released in August 1994 as the first single from their debut studio album, Sex & Violins...
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  • offering him £1,000. It is said that the BBC's Head of Light Entertainment Bill Cotton not only refused the pay rise that Dee demanded, but said that he would...
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  • long-running music programme Top of the Pops with Stanley Dorfman and Bill Cotton. Stewart co-produced Top of the Pops with Dorfman until 1969, when Stewart...
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  • of London 1874–1885 Will Cotton (born 1965), American painter Bill Cotton (1928–2008), British television producer Billy Cotton (1899–1969), bandleader...
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    director Johnny Harris. Lulu later recalled: I had a series on TV, and Bill Cotton was the Head of Light entertainment [at the BBC], and he said to my manager:...
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  • Charlie Cotton is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Christopher Hancock. Charlie is a recurring character, introduced...
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    talent to play a man much older than his real age. However, BBC executive Bill Cotton overruled him, casting Clive Dunn because he was better known. According...
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  • fierce objections from the then managing director of BBC Television, Bill Cotton, otherwise in charge of all scheduling decisions. The very announcement...
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    broadcasting, real drama, news, current affairs". In early summer 1984, Bill Cotton recruited Grade for BBC Television, where he became controller of BBC...
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    television service and continued to lead in the ratings until 1984. In 1984, Bill Cotton become managing director of Television at the BBC, and set about overhauling...
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  • Cotton University (formerly known as Cotton College) is a public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established in 2017 by the...
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  • May 1976. Whilst producers were aware of the switch to the new group, Bill Cotton, the then head of the light entertainment unit of which Top Of The Pops...
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    Cotton bale is a standard-sized and weighted pack of compressed cotton lint after ginning. The dimensions and weight may vary with different cotton-producing...
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  • The BBC, suffering poor ratings, decided to make its own game show. Bill Cotton, the BBC's Head of Light Entertainment, believed that Forsyth was best...
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  • "Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)" (also known as In Them Old Cotton Fields Back Home) is a song written by American blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, better...
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  • Souphanousinphone, Minh Souphanousinphone, Connie Souphanousinphone, John Redcorn, Cotton Hill, Didi Hill, Buck Strickland, and Lucky Kleinschmidt. Henry Rutherford...
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  • Dominic Cotton is an English journalist. Born in Cheshire, but moving to London when he was two, Cotton trained and worked as an actor, gaining parts...
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  • The Cotton Bowl Classic (also known as the Cotton Bowl) is an American college football bowl game that has been held annually in the Dallas–Fort Worth...
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