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
Isabelle Boni-Claverie citizens. In February 17 and 18, "Too Black to be French?" will be screened respectively at NYU and Columbia University, with Isabelle Boni-Claverie debating these issues for the first time in the United States. Boni-Claverie was a juror in 2012 for the Mediterranean Short Film Festival of Tangier with Oumy Ndour and Safinez Bousbia. Isabelle Boni-Claverie Isabelle Boni-Claverie(/ˈɪzəˌbɛl ˈboʊni-Claverie/) is an author, screenwriter, and film director born in the Ivory Coast. She moved to Switzerland when she was a few months old, then to France, but mostly grew up in Paris. She is the granddaughter of Alphonse Boni, a French