GRUMPY Outdated Males creator Stuart Prebble has sadly handed away aged 74.
The previous ITV chief govt’s household confirmed he died final week after battling pancreatic most cancers.
GettyTV producer and writer Stuart Prebble has sadly died on the age of 74[/caption]
AlamyStuart turned chief govt of ITV in 2001[/caption]
Tributes have flooded in for the influential tv determine, who was hailed as a “gifted and distinguished” journalist.
Political broadcaster Michael Crick posted on X: “Some of the distinguished TV journalists of contemporary instances”.
One other penned: “One in every of Britain’s finest TV journalists, editors, investigators and authentic minds: fabulous sense of humour has died.
“RIP Stuart Prebble: Editor of World in Motion and creator of Grumpy Outdated Males and @sky Panorama Artist.”
A 3rd added: “What I bear in mind most about Stuart was at Ncle Uni he lead the weekly debate on Saturday evenings within the debating chamber on the college students’ union.
“No matter was too daft, too critical or too controversial. He was an excellent public speaker who might assume on his ft. RIP.”
On his web site, Stuart spoke fondly of his profession, which noticed him work throughout a wide range of high-profile positions on the BBC and ITV.
He wrote: “I’ve travelled to a number of the most tough and harmful locations on the planet.
“I’ve met each Prime Minister from Harold Wilson to David Cameron. I’ve made Joan Bakewell snicker and Joan Rivers cry.
“Somebody advised me early on that it could all be enjoyable, and if it wasn’t enjoyable, it could be attention-grabbing.
“Most of it was enjoyable and attention-grabbing. Some was simply enjoyable. Some was simply attention-grabbing.
“In writing all of it down, I’ve the phrases of my previous headmaster ringing in my ears. ‘You’re not humorous, Prebble, and also you’re not intelligent.'”
“He was in all probability proper then, and he’d in all probability be proper now. It’s not humorous and it’s not intelligent. However it’s all as true as I can bear in mind it.”
Stuart began working in TV after he left Newcastle College in 1974.
He was working for pupil newspaper The Courier when Paul McCartney arrived together with his band Wings for an impromptu gig.
The younger reporter mentioned: “I seemed at the back of the van and there was Paul McCartney.
“I advised them the Pupil Union was closed on a Sunday however that they could have the ability to play within the canteen.”
From right here, Stuart joined the BBC as an on-screen reporter and journalist.
He then moved to ITV, the place he produced the World In Motion collection and have become commissioning editor for factual programmes.
World In Motion noticed him earn a BAFTA nomination and he received ‘finest factual collection’ RTS award for Community First.
On his web site, he jokes that he was lastly “enticed to put on a go well with” when he turned the organisation’s chief govt in 2001.
However a yr later, he left ITV to arrange his personal tv firm, Liberty Bell.
It was then he created the vastly common TV collection Grumpy Outdated Males, which featured middle-aged males discussing life’s irritations.
It was primarily based on a survey which highlighted that the “grumpiest” folks within the UK had been aged between 35 and 54.
Contributors to the present included Jeremy Clarkson, Nigel Havers, Bob Geldof and Rick Stein.
Talking on the age vary, Prebble mentioned: “They’re grumpy about the whole lot from squid-brained visitors wardens to body-piercing…
“…from predictive texting to individuals who take telephone calls within the cinema.”
It ran for 3 years, inspiring a number of extra “Grumpies” programmes equivalent to Grumpy Outdated Girls.
Even Stuart’s autobiography, Nonetheless Grumpy: After All These Years, referenced the TV present.
After promoting Liberty Bell, he arrange one other manufacturing firm known as StoryVault Movies.
The agency produced common exhibits equivalent to Portrait Artist of The 12 months and Panorama Artist of The 12 months for Sky.
BBCThe present was primarily based on a survey that highlighted the ‘grumpiest’ age vary was 35-54[/caption]
BBCArthur Smith was one other star of Stuart’s Grumpy Outdated Males[/caption]