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'''Derek Granger''' (23 April 1921 – 29 November 2022) was a British film and television producer, and screenwriter. He worked on ''[[Brideshead Revisited (TV serial)|Brideshead Revisited]]'', ''[[A Handful of Dust (film)|A Handful of Dust]]'', and ''[[Where Angels Fear to Tread (film)|Where Angels Fear to Tread]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/derek-granger-dead-brideshead-revisited-1235271729/|title=Derek Granger, 'Brideshead Revisited' Writer and Producer, Dies at 101|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=29 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/brideshead-revisited-and-coronation-street-producer-derek-granger-dies-aged-101-42183457.html|title=Brideshead Revisited and Coronation Street producer Derek Granger dies aged 101|website=independent|date=29 November 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2022/04/20/derek-granger-unsung-hero-british-tv-told-olivier-jealous/|title=Derek Granger, the unsung hero of British TV: 'I was told Olivier was jealous of me'|first=Jasper|last=Rees|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=20 April 2022|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>
== Early
Derek was born in [[Bramhall]], [[Cheshire]], to Winifred (née Ashcroft) and Edgar Granger. When he was 14, the family moved to [[Eastbourne]], where his father managed a chain of confectionery shops. Granger first saw [[Laurence Olivier]] as a star in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' at the New theatre, London, in 1935 when Granger watched the performance. In 1938, after leaving [[Eastbourne College]], Granger joined the Southern Publishing Company as a reporter on the Sussex Daily News and the [[The Argus (Brighton)|Evening Argus]] in [[Brighton]]. He was a sub-lieutenant in the [[Royal Naval Reserve|Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve]] establishing himself as a theatre critic when he returned to work for the papers.<ref name="the guardian">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/nov/30/derek-granger-obituary|title=Derek Granger obituary|website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=30 November 2022}}</ref>
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In 1962, he created and produced the sitcom ''[[Bulldog Breed]]'' (1962), starring [[Donald Churchill]] as the disaster-prone Tom Bowler and [[Amanda Barrie]] as his girlfriend, Sandra Prentiss. He returned to ''Coronation Street'' with the hit spin-off ''[[Pardon the Expression]]'' (1966) with Leonard Swindley ([[Arthur Lowe]]) being relocated to the branch of a national chain store as assistant manager. However, ''Turn Out the Lights'' (1967), a spin-off of the spin-off, with Swindley as a ghost hunter, bombed.<ref name="the guardian"/>
In 1964, Granger executive produced ''[[World in Action]]'' which featured ''[[Seven Up!]]'' which in turn featured seven year olds with [[Michael Apted]], who was the show's researcher who would subsequently visit as director of stand-alone programmes every seven years to chart the ups and downs of their lives and presented Granada’s regional programme Cinema during 1964 and 1965. He later in 1968 produce music programmes and executive produced of two drama series, ''[[The Inside Man (TV series)|The Inside Man]]'' (1969), about a psychiatrist-criminologist, and ''[[Wicked Women (TV series)|Wicked Women]]'' (1970), the stories of female Victorian criminals for the new London ITV company [[LWT]].<ref name="the guardian"/><ref>{{imdb title|0902940|Wicked Women}}</ref>
From 1969 to 1972, Granger was Olivier's, who was artistic director at the National Theatre, literary consultant. He then made the Bafta award-winning ''[[Country Matters]]'' (1972–73), based on stories by [[H. E. Bates]] and [[A. E. Coppard]], the anthology series ''[[Laurence Olivier Presents]]'' (1976–78) for Granada, which he co-produced with Olivier, featuring six plays of the actor’s choice, all but one starring him. They included [[Tennessee Williams]]’s ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' and [[Harold Pinter]]’s ''[[The Collection (play)|The Collection]]''. He made in 1981, ''[[Brideshead Revisited (TV serial)|Brideshead Revisited]]'' starring [[Jeremy Irons]]. He made two literary film adaptains with Sturridge such as ''[[A Handful of Dust (film)|A Handful of Dust]]'' (1988) and ''[[Where Angels Fear to Tread (film)|Where Angels Fear to Tread]]'' (1991) after leaving Granda in 1982.<ref name="the guardian"/>
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