Philip Morrow (born May 23, 1962) is a Northern Irish television producer. In 1999, he founded Wild Rover Productions, a television production company best known for producing the hidden-camera show '' Just for Laughs'' along with various entertainment, comedy, and pop-factual TV programmes. Morrow currently serves as the company's managing director. Morrow has held many positions within the United Kingdom television industry over the past twenty years. His first commission was from Channel 4 in 1990, to produce a one-off TV programme ''

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- The Documentary''. It told the story of ''Viz'' in a way that spoofed serious investigative TV shows such as ''

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'' or '' Dispatches''. He was head of comedy at Thames Television in the 1980s and 1990s. There, he wrote and produced ''

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'' – presented by Tim Vine on Channel 4 – a gameshow spoofing gameshows in which the contestants' success or failure was based on completely arbitrary and random rules. At Thames Television, he also produced the show '' Sugar and Spice'' for

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. Morrow then served at the head of programmes for UTV (formerly Ulster Television). Projects he worked on included '' Emerald Shoes'', a documentary on Irish dance for

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, and '' Same Difference'' for Channel 4. He then served as executive producer of development at Mentorm Films, where shows included '' Space Precinct'', '' Today's the Day'', ''

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'', and '' Happy Families''. Morrow next served as commissioning editor for entertainment at Channel 4, where his shows included ''

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'', '' Drop the Dead Donkey'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. In 2006, Morrow was elected to be the Northern Ireland PACT representative and on the board of

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. In this capacity, he has encouraged BBC's investment in "out of London" companies to offset the disadvantages associated with physical distance from United Kingdom commissioning centres. In 2009, Morrow began producing ''Secret Fortune'', a Saturday night primetime gameshow for the BBC Lottery show. He also developed the format and structure of the show."ABC orders Irish gameshow "
On October 12, 2010, it was announced that Morrow's television show format ''Take the Money and Run'' received a six-episode order for show production by

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with Jerry Bruckheimer as executive producer along with '' Amazing Race'' creators

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and Elise Doganieri.

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** * *current IMDb database error puts Morrow in two profiles
"Biography on Wild Rover Production's homepage""Wild Rover Productions""PACT profile"
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