Michael Grade

Biography

Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth, CBE is an English television executive and businessman. He was chairman of the BBC from 2004 to 2006 and executive chairman of ITV plc from 2007 to 2009. Since 2011, he has been a Conservative Party life peer in the House of Lords.

Known for

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

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Question Time

September 25, 1979

The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse

January 3, 2011

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

September 4, 2022

Best Ever Bond

November 22, 2002

An Audience With Victoria Wood

December 10, 1988

An Audience with...

January 8, 1978

Acting roles

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
2022	Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg	Self – Chair, Ofcom
2022	Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story	Self
2022	Days That Shook the BBC with David Dimbleby	Self
2021	Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes	Self
2018	Golazzo: The Football Italia Story	Himself
2018	Morecambe & Wise in America	Self
2016	Burt Bacharach - A Life in Song
2016	British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves	Self
2014	The Real Tom Thumb: History's Smallest Superstar	Narrator
2014	The Fight for Saturday Night	Self - Presenter
2014	A Life on Screen	Himself
2013	Frost on Sketch Shows	Self
2013	Goodbye Television Centre	Self - Host
2011	The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse
2011	Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes	Self (as Michael Grade CBE)
2011	The Story of Music Hall	Self
2011	The Story of Variety with Michael Grade
2008	Trials and Tribulations	(archive footage)
2002	Best Ever Bond	Self
2002	The Trial of Jack The Ripper	Self
1986	Open Air
—	Have I Got a Bit More News for You	Self - Panellist
1997	Jonathan Creek	Michael Grade (uncredited)
1994	Room 101	Self
1988	An Audience With Victoria Wood	Himself, questioner
1987	French & Saunders
1979	Question Time	Himself - Panellist
1978	An Audience with...	Self

Credits

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
2019	42nd Street	Executive Producer
1985	Kane & Abel	Producer