Following on from the profiles of Jack Hylton and Val Parnell, here is the third article in this occasional series within Comedy Chronicles in which Graham McCann looks at the main impresarios ...
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Michael Grade has done more than most to shape the past half-century of British TV. The man who stole Bruce Forsyth for ITV, commissioned The South Bank Show, brought Neighbours to these shores for ...
Lord Lew Grade, the canny and flamboyant show-business entrepreneur who celebrated his 80th birthday Christmas Day, has suggested ”What I Promise, I Keep” as his epitaph. ”I`m in the middle of a ...
Thunderbirds co-creator Gerry Anderson received bribes from former ITV boss Sir Lew Grade in exchange for selling the rights to the iconic puppet series in a cut-price deal, claims his stepdaughter.
Return of the Saint star Ian Ogilvy tells the story of Lew Grade's ITC company, which revolutionised British television in the 1960s and 70s. From espionage on the Riviera to surrealist thrillers ...
Like F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of Jay Gatsby, Lew Grade, as an impresario, 'sprang from his Platonic conception of himself'. Always brandishing his big cigar for the cameras, forever quick with a ...
Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter If Lew Grade's autobiography, Still Dancing, isn't the dullest account of a fascinating life ever written, it's near the top.
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