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Merge suggestion[edit]

I think that a great deal of information on this page actually directly relates to ITC Entertainment and really belongs on that page instead. I suggest a merge of some of the information into the ITC article, leaving just the biographical information on this page. Howie ☎ 21:56, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've tagged the two sections I think are the biggest culprits Howie ☎ 22:00, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the article is actually about ITC and its productions. To a Brit like me, this seems like an excessively American perspective on LG's life and achievements. --80.176.142.11 (talk) 18:51, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why do you think it's American? ITC operated out of Elstree. Howie ☎ 18:58, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Missing information[edit]

Seems to me that the most fascinating aspect on the emergence of the Grade family is how they managed to rise to the very top of British society, with Lordships and all. Especially given Britain's rigid class system. It should follow the following opening paragraph:

In 1912 the Jewish family fled to a new life in the East End of London. Isaac managed a cinema, while his three sons attended the Rochelle Street School in Bethnal Green, near Shoreditch, where Yiddish was spoken by 90% of the pupils. For two years they lived in rented rooms at the north end of Brick Lane, then moved to the nearby Boundary Estate[1]. At 15 Louis became an agent for a clothing firm, and shortly afterwards started his own business. But after he won a Charleston competition at the Royal Albert Hall in 1926, he became a professional dancer under the name Lew Grade. In 1933, he founded a talent agency with his brother, Bernard.

Then what? JohnClarknew (talk) 21:22, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Britain's rigid class system" has always been a bit of a myth. You can find many examples like LG.

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CBS and syndication[edit]

There is a sentence in this article (with no citation) that says, "CBS came close to agreeing to broadcast The Muppet Show', but only if it was during a syndicated block of its programming." I don't understand what this means. Broadcast syndication and broadcast on a network such as CBS are two different things. What would it mean for a network to broadcast a show in a syndicated block? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:22, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]