MichaelDean
- Presenter
- Journalist
Palmerston North-born Michael Dean won fame as a longtime presenter on pioneering BBC arts show Late Night Line-Up. Although his three decade broadcasting career was mostly spent in England, Dean also did time downunder. In 1972 he presented an opinionated Survey special on how New Zealand had changed, followed by talk show Dean on Saturday. He passed away in England on 5 October 2015.
Screenography
Biography
In an age where local television executives made a habit of calling in overseas experts to help show the colonials how to make programmes — sometimes with embarrassing results — Michael Dean set off in the other direction, and ended up with a high profile job amidst the fertile cultural scene that was 60s London.
“His interviews with Tony Hancock, Morecambe and Wise, Gore Vidal and Peter Sellers were no showbiz soundbites but thoughtful conversations, in which Michael used his modesty and intelligence to steer guests to often revealing insights.”