Michael Grade
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Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth is an English television executive and businessman. He has held a number of senior roles in television, including controller of BBC1, chief executive of Chan
Official portrait, 2023
Mind Your Language
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Mind Your Language is a British sitcom that premiered on ITV in 1977. It was produced by London Weekend Television and directed by Stuart Allen. Three series were made by London Weekend Television bet
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…black cast. At LWT, Grade worked with both John Birt and Greg Dyke. After he became director of programmes in 1977, Grade commissioned the series Mind Your Language, but later cancelled it. At an event at the Edinburgh Television Festival in 1985, he agreed that the series was racist, and said that "it was really…
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