Ben Elton is an atheist. Elton studied at Stillness Junior School and Godalming Grammar School in Surrey, South Warwickshire College in Stratford-upon-Avon and the University of Manchester. His first television appearance was a stand-up performance on the BBC1 youth and music programme, The "Oxford Road Show". His first TV success, at 23, came as co-writer of the television sitcom, "The Young Ones", in which he occasionally appeared. In 1983/84 he wrote and appeared in Granada Television's sketch show "Alfresco", which was also notable for early appearances by Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane. In 1985, Elton produced his first
Boxer TV A/S Boxer TV A/S Boxer TV A/S is a company that is broadcasting pay television channels on the digital terrestrial television network in Denmark since February 1, 2009. It is a subsidiary of Boxer TV Access, a Swedish company which is owned by Com Hem. Boxer won the right to build four multiplex networks to broadcast digital television in 2008. They were competing against "Danmarks Digital TV A/S" (owned by Telenor) and "Danmarks TV A/S" (owned by Modern Times Group, MTG). The procurement was organized by the government agency "Mediesekretariatet" and in March 2008 Radio- og TV-nævnet chose Swedish Boxer as