Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers
29,188
edits
Michael Grade: Difference between revisions
m
added Category:Businesspeople using HotCat
mNo edit summary |
m (added Category:Businesspeople using HotCat) |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{creator}} <!-- ...for certain values of "Creator". -->
The man every ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fan hates. [[Brass Eye|Bit of a cunt.]] British, former high-level executive in TV, holding a CBE.
Son of Leslie Grade, a theatrical agent (and nephew to Lord Lew Grade of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' fame), he started as a journalist and moved to TV in 1973, namely [[ITV|London Weekend Television]]. There he commissioned (and later canned) ''[[Mind Your Language]]'' (a controversial show about an English-As-A-Second-Language class), ''[[The Professionals]]'', and ''The South Bank Show''.
He moved to the BBC in 1984 as Controller of [[BBC 1]], where he proceeded to cancel ''[[Doctor Who]]'', bring it back 18 months later after a public outcry, sack Colin Baker, and put the show up against ''Coronation Street'' (his successor, Jonathan Powell, eventually brought down the axe in 1989). He also canned the ''Tripods'' trilogy before Part 3 could be produced, turning it into a duology with a [[Downer Ending]].
Line 10:
In 2004, following the Hutton Inquiry, he became Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors. There he had to consume much humble pie after the spectacular success of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' revival.
In 2007, he became Chairman of [[ITV]], which
Grade holds the distinction of being the only BBC controller who was ''not'' knighted by [[
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Producers]]
[[Category:Businesspeople]]
[[Category:Michael Grade]]
[[Category:Banned On TV Tropes]]
| |||