PROFITS TO POPEYE
The world’s biggest mouse house and why Gerry Robinson of Granada TV chose profit over priesthood. Robinson ran Britain’s Granada company. It triggered a takeover battle which changed the face of British TV and enraged the comedian John Cleese of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
In America, John Swinfield made a TV documentary about the Disney Corporation, the world’s biggest entertainment conglomerate and home to Mickey Mouse and Popeye. Disney embraces everything from films to theme parks such as Orlando, in Florida. It has myriad businesses – from TV stations, studios and theatres, to global brands like Marvel, Pixar, X-Men and Star Wars, competing with other entertainment colossi such as Comcast, DreamWorks, Netflix, NBC Universal, CBS and Nintendo.
This episode of Big Business is dedicated to Gerry Robinson who sadly died shortly after it was recorded.
PROFITS TO POPEYE
The world’s biggest mouse house and why Gerry Robinson of Granada TV chose profit over priesthood. Robinson ran Britain’s Granada company. It triggered a takeover battle which changed the face of British TV and enraged the comedian John Cleese of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
In America, John Swinfield made a TV documentary about the Disney Corporation, the world’s biggest entertainment conglomerate and home to Mickey Mouse and Popeye. Disney embraces everything from films to theme parks such as Orlando, in Florida. It has myriad businesses – from TV stations, studios and theatres, to global brands like Marvel, Pixar, X-Men and Star Wars, competing with other entertainment colossi such as Comcast, DreamWorks, Netflix, NBC Universal, CBS and Nintendo.
This episode of Big Business is dedicated to Gerry Robinson who sadly died shortly after it was recorded.