Derek Granger on Cecil Bernstein

Cecil was a very, very interesting man. He hadn’t got the huge personality or the grandeur of Sidney, but he had a great integrity, and he had a marvellous nose for comedy and popular entertainment. And that’s what he did. And comedy under Cecil was very, very good. There was a very, very good actual producer, Peter Eadon, but Cecil Bernstein was very much the inspiration of all that, and as I say, there was very good comedy from Granada, Bootsie and Snudge, The Army Game, were enormously successful, and they were entirely Cecil’s babies, as was the light entertainment programmes, the musical stuff, and also in the end, Coronation Street, which became Cecil’s baby. So the brothers rather carefully divided their interests. Sidney’s were more serious, intellectual and artistic, and Cecil’s were much more light entertainment and comedy. And they divided up…

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