A quick promo for tonight’s Granada Reports, then we’re off to the execrable Mr Merlin.
A quick promo for tonight’s Granada Reports, then we’re off to the execrable Mr Merlin.
Views of Quay Street and its surrounding area, late 1990s.
Graham James takes us off to bed for the night with an uneventful closedown of Manchester station Granada.
Granada’s schedule for 17 October 1991.
Coronation Street and World in Action are wiped out across the network and replaced with filler, while Granada viewers in the northwest have just a blank screen. We come in just as the industrial action comes to an end, allow Charles Foster to pop up out-of-vision to tell us what happened, when the missing programmes can be seen and to throw us into ‘Quincy’.
Meanwhile, HTV Wales and Central react to the missing the programmes in their own regions. It’s Sue Powell Reed* at the HTV continuity desk and Linda Cunningham* at Central.
An unusual Granada export: the format for The Krypton Factor was sold to ABC in America in 1981.
Graham James sees us Granada to bed one night in the 1980s.
A lovely oddity: Granada’s ‘Spotlight’ cheap adverts slot, but made at Kirkstall Road and voiced by YTV’s Redvers Kyle and John Crosse.
An outside broadcast from the Granada Travelling Eye.
Graham James sees Granada off to bed again one night in the 1980s.