Geoff Moore – Granadaland

Geoff Moore on how he joined Granada TV

I joined Granada in January 1969. I’d just graduated from Liverpool University, did a second degree in politics there. I came out after four years at university (Birmingham and Liverpool) vaguely wanting to be a journalist. I mean I’d done a lot of politics and I liked writing. I’d come from a left-wing family. We’d…

Geoff Moore describes the range of musicians he worked with on So It Goes

My second show as a producer was So It Goes. So from World in Action I went to So It Goes. That’s a big leap! Yes. It was, wasn’t it? Six months on So It Goes. My music background helped me get this maybe. So It Goes became a cult hit – still is –…

Geoff Moore remembers working in comedy with Kenny Everett

So I found myself going into comedy as the first job, which is not at all my background or my bent. Mind you, I was young and this was great! You know, who cares what it is! You are working in television and you go out filming with Kenny Everett, you travel and they get…

Geoff Moore recalls his first stint on World In Action

By July or August 1969 I was in World in Action with John Birt. In the summer of 1970 I left Granada to become a rock and roll star! But my first period on World in Action was late summer ’69 to the middle of 1970 in which time I researched three World in Action’s.…

Geoff Moore on his second period working on World in Action

I remember in the winter of ’73/’74 I got fed up with music (there was nothing in it for me) and then I knocked on the doors of Gus MacDonald, for World in Action again, and John Birt at London Weekend. They both offered me contracts! I took the Granada one. So then we have…

Geoff Moore remembers the diversity of Granada’s output in the 70’s

At that time we’re talking about late ‘70‘s, what a great place to work Granada was. There was little competition. And Granada made lots of regional programmes. There was a big commitment to regional programmes , that’s now gone from ITV. There was a farming programme, Down to Earth. There was Regional Sports. There was…

Geoff Moore describes the particular ethos of Granada

It suited us, us left-leaning provincial grammar school boys. I mean it wasn’t a posh place, it wasn’t a place for public school boys. It wasn’t a culture-vulture place or snobbish. It was quite the opposite of that. It was a Northern ‘muck-in let’s do it’ kind of thing, which for example you found in…

Geoff Moore reflects on whether Granada could be considered ‘left-wing’

It was undoubtedly a left-wing company in the ’60s and ’70s especially when feelings were running very high between left and right in this country and it was a given at Granada that you were left-wing. It was un-stated but there. You were kind of anti-Establishment and that phrase sort of sums up Granada’s ethos…

Geoff Moore recalls producing The Krypton Factor

Then I got the call from Steve Leahy to do Krypton Factor, which involved me for 2 years, ’86 and ’87. That won an award, which I’m proud of, the Spanish TV Festival Best Entertainment Programme 1987. I did transform Krypton. They’d become fed up with Krypton. It started in ’77. They were just bored…