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

7.2
Have I Got News for You
1990
5.9
Question Time
1979
7.1
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
5.3
An Audience with...
1978
2.8
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
7.5
Jonathan Creek
1997
6.5
Room 101
1994
Open Air
6.0
Open Air
1986
7.5
French & Saunders
1987
Morecambe & Wise in America
2018
8.0
A Life on Screen
2014
7.8
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
2008
Best Ever Bond
5.6
Best Ever Bond
2002
5.7
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
6.1
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
8.4
Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland
2018
Being Stanley Baxter
2025
6.0
Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes
2021