By 1989, Greg Dyke was getting into his stride as director of programmes at LWT, and was keen for the company to...
Aside from streamlining the rank and file of LWT, Greg Dyke was also intent on maximising the company’s advertising revenues. To do...
Unsurprisingly the press seized upon the failed Blind Date pilot and David Glencross and the IBA felt compelled to act. Birt, comfortable that...
“It’s wallpaper TV,” claimed Daily Mail entertainment columnist, Baz Bamigboye in 2000. “But watching Cilla is like using an illegal substance. You know you...
LWT’s head of comedy, Humphrey Barclay was growing increasingly concerned. Much effort had been made in the late 1970s to sort out...
Bob Monkhouse found his niche at the BBC in 1984, but he was not the only one to attain a sense of...
As the new age of ITV co-operation started to bear fruit in 1984, further promises were made. Granada, still resistant to Birt’s...
The steady trickle of new weekend ITV programmes made by the traditionally weekend-averse Granada and Central Television was taken as a personal triumph...
A weekend television audience differs from a weekday one in both composition and expectation, so that the principles and practice of programming...
On the evening of Monday 5 September 1969, the available LWT unit heads – Doreen Stephens, Terry Hughes, Humphrey Burton, Derek Granger and...
LWT’s output in those early days was as varied as any other ITV station, however the combination of, as David Docherty in...
In 1968, Frank Muir sat down at his desk to write a letter. Concentrating on work was not always easy in this office....
Friday, 7th August 1970 PICK OF THE DAY 5.20pm TWO D’S AND A DOG, ITV We think of spin-offs as a modern...
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