“Or it was too expensive, or ‘we don’t do TV set in the Caribbean.’
“And I’d realised quite consciously that I needed someone really powerful to go and bat for the idea.”
The writer revealed how he spent 18 months trying to pitch it to various companies.
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However, thankfully he then managed to get Tony Jordan on board, who has just founded Red Planet Pictures.
Thorogood entered his script into his competition, which helped get him in the door.
He told RadioTimes.com: “When I pitched it to Tony, I immediately followed it up with, ‘But unfortunately it’ll never happen.
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“I’m saving myself. I’m going to a safe place.”
Una echoed a similar sentiment, saying: “I’m way safer here than I would be at home.
“I m very sorry for the people that begrudge us for being out here. It is my time now. It is what it is,” she added.
Many callers were not happy with the pair, with one woman, Nicky, saying they should be ashamed of themselves.
Nicky lives in Oxford, and was unable to return to return to Ireland when one of her loved one’s died in December.
“I’d like to point out we had a very sudden bereavement ,” she said. “I took the decision not to travel home… I’m still not over it.
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Luminar CEO Austin Russell is the youngest self-made billionaire after taking his company public via a special-purpose acquisition company merger last month.
It s a Silicon Valley tale: Russell has built inventions since his childhood and dropped out of Stanford when he got the Thiel Fellowship to work on Luminar.
He disrupted innovation in an emerging industry, developing nontraditional lidar sensors that help self-driving cars see the road.
Luminar s future looks promising, but it still has a few obstacles to overcome. Russell s billionaire status depends on Luminar s ability to execute.
The world s youngest self-made billionaire hopes to power every future self-driving car with a technology that Elon Musk says is doomed hhoffower@businessinsider.com (Hillary Hoffower) © Provided by Business Insider Austin Russell, the founder and CEO of the self-driving-car tech startup Luminar, is the youngest billionaire. Luminar
Luminar CEO Austin Russell is the youngest self-made billionaire after taking his company public via a special-purpose acquisition company merger last month.
It s a Silicon Valley tale: Russell has built inventions since his childhood and dropped out of Stanford when he got the Thiel Fellowship to work on Luminar.
He disrupted innovation in an emerging industry, developing nontraditional lidar sensors that help self-driving cars see the road.
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