Michael Grade Management & Representation. Among the artists whom Grade represented were Morecambe and Wise (he successfully negotiated the duo's defection from ATV to BBC2 in 1968) and Larry Grayson. Grade entered the television industry in 1973 when he joined London Weekend Television (LWT) as Deputy Controller of Programmes (Entertainment). During this time he bought the scripts of an Afro-American sitcom "Good Times" which had an all-black cast. Adapted as "The Fosters" (1976–77), it became the first British sitcom to have an entirely black cast. At LWT, Grade worked with both John Birt and Greg Dyke. After he became Director of Programmes
Norman Beaton to his home city of Georgetown, Guyana (just as his character in "Desmond's" was doing the same), where he collapsed at the airport from a heart attack and died a few hours later on 13 December 1994 at the age of 60. He was survived by five children from three marriages. It was announced in the spin-off show of "Desmond"'s called "Porkpie" that Beaton's character, Desmond, had died approximately a year before the spin-off's first episode. M. Gloria Moshette (1958–?) Granddaughters – Sabrina Gayle (Kim Beaton), Alexandra Beaton (Norman Beaton Jr), Mica Beaton (Jeremy Beaton) Grandsons – Marlon Beaton (Jeremy