Granada broadcaster Mike Scott, 75
Posted: Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 11:44 amDecember 8, 1932 - May 30, 2008
Mike Scott was one of the foremost producer-performers in commercial television, one of an elite group at Granada whose other members included Bill Grundy and Michael Parkinson.
His career on the small screen involved extensive work both in front of camera and behind it. In both capacities, he was regarded as exceptionally skilled at presenting complex and superficially unattractive subjects — of all sorts — in a simple and appealing way. Perhaps his finest achievement in this regard was Nuts and Bolts of the Economy, which he presented and produced from 1975 until 1978; though he will probably be better remembered for presenting ITV’s networked morning-discussion programme The Time . . . The Place, in the late Eighties and early Nineties. … Read full obituary
