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Articles about Michael Parkinson

The fall and rise of TV-am

Published 29 September 2023

As TV-am finally overtakes BBC Breakfast Time, the TVTimes takes a look back at the tumultuous first 3 years

Published 17 August 2023

Interviewer, presenter and journalist Michael Parkinson has died

Published 22 September 2022

The franchise results are in. What will this mean for ITV in the 1980s?

Published 22 September 2022

Elkan Allan looks at what convinced the IBA to pick TVS, TSW and TV-am

Published 15 October 2021

The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror

Published 4 December 2020

Inside Granada’s greatest regional programme, Scene at 6.30

Published 25 June 2018

Will TV-am be a success? Peter Jay says yes. Others tell the Sunday Express Magazine in 1981 that it’s a disaster in the making

Published 7 June 2018

Looking forward to the arrival of TV-am, later in 1983