Tributes have been paid to former Granada Television chairman Sir Denis Forman, who died in a London nursing home on Sunday at the age of 95.
Sir Denis helped bring Coronation Street and celebrated 1980s drama The Jewel In The Crown to the screen.
As chairman of Granada, he was involved with other groundbreaking programmes including current affairs show World In Action and period drama Brideshead Revisited.
Sir Denis, who lost a leg at the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy in 1944, joined Granada at its launch in 1956 and served as its chairman from 1974 to 1987. He was deputy chairman of the Royal Opera House during the 1970s.
The 1999 film My Life So Far was based on his memoir of growing up in Scotland in the 1920s.
ITV director Peter Fincham described him as “one of the great pioneers of British broadcasting”.
