At the October 2006 Conservative Conference, she was Chief Dragon in a political version of the television programme Dragons ' Den, in which A-list candidates were invited to put forward a policy proposal, which was then torn apart by her team of Rachel Elnaugh, Oliver Letwin and Michael Brown.

Alexander Bunyip, created by children's author and illustrator Michael Salmon, first appeared in print in The Monster That Ate Canberra in 1972, Alexander Bunyip went on to appear in many other books and a live-action television series, Alexander Bunyip's Billabong.

In film, entertainment, and television, Dartmouth is represented by Budd Schulberg, Academy Award winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, Michael Phillips, who won the Academy Award for best picture as co-producer of The Sting, Rachel Dratch, a cast member of Saturday Night Live, creator of Grey's Anatomy Shonda Rhimes, film director and producer Jethro Rothe-Kushel (" The Oscars "), VP of Fox Searchlight, Zola Mashariki, Chris Meledandri Executive Producer of Ice Age, Horton Hears a Who!

Other notable film and television figures include Sarah Wayne Callies ( Prison Break ), Mindy Kaling ( The Office ), Emmy Award winner Michael Moriarty, Andrew Shue of Melrose Place, Aisha Tyler of Friends and 24, Dan Rush the director of Everything Must Go and Connie Britton of Spin City, The West Wing, and Friday Night Lights.

* 1963 – Michael Moloney, American television personality and interior designer

Michael Palin plays a television host with the problem.

The first of these, It's Always Fair Weather ( 1956 ) co-directed with Donen, was a musical satire on television and advertising, and includes his famous roller skate dance routine to " I Like Myself ", and a dance trio with Michael Kidd and Dan Dailey which allowed Kelly to experiment with the widescreen possibilities of Cinemascope.

The Golden Turkey Awards formed the basis of a 1983 television series The Worst of Hollywood hosted by Michael Medved.

The original orchestral score was composed by Michael Kamen, but the soundtrack includes several songs by Queen, like " Princes of the Universe ", which was also used in the Highlander television series title sequence.

Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The War Hound and the World's Pain depicts a supernatural Grail quest set in the era of the Thirty Years ' War, and science fiction has taken the Quest into interstellar space, figuratively in Samuel R. Delany's 1968 novel Nova, and literally on the television shows Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 ( as the " Sangraal ").

* 1982: Ivanhoe, a television movie starring Anthony Andrews as Ivanhoe, Michael Hordern as his Cedric, Sam Neill as Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert, Olivia Hussey as Rebecca, James Mason as Isaac, Lysette Anthony as Rowena, Julian Glover as King Richard, and David Robb as Robin Hood.

He also co-created with Michael Jacobs the television show Dinosaurs during his final years.

John Michael Frankenheimer ( February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002 ) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action / suspense films.

* J. Michael Straczynski ( born 1954 ), contemporary fiction and television writer

In 1995, Voight played a role in the film, Heat, directed by Michael Mann, and appeared in the television films Convict Cowboy, and The Tin Soldier, also directing the latter film.

The " Pythonesque " film explored the events surrounding the 1979 television debate on talk show Friday Night, Saturday Morning between John Cleese and Michael Palin and Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the then Bishop of Southwark.

Michael Edward Palin, CBE, FRGS ( pronounced ; born 5 May 1943 ) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.

From 1974 to 1980 he wrote, designed, narrated and presented the children's television programme Michael Bentine's Potty Time and made one-off comedy specials.

* 1936 – Michael Hurll, English television producer ( d. 2012 )

Peter Michael Falk ( September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011 ) was an American actor, best known for his role as Lt. Frank Columbo in the television series Columbo.

* 2012 – Michael Hurll, English television producer ( b. 1936 )

* Michael Venus, Canadian television personality

In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1956 ), Ishmael ( Richard Basehart ) narrates the story and sometimes comments on the action in voice-over, as does Joe Gillis ( William Holden ) in Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Eric Erickson ( William Holden ) in The Counterfeit Traitor ( 1962 ); adult Pip ( John Mills ) in Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Michael York in a television remake ( 1974 ).

* Actor Philip Michael Thomas was asked by television producers if he had ever played a police officer, and he replied " Yes, I was a cop in a feature film.

* September 19 – Michael Symon, American chef and television personality

** Michael Sundin, English television presenter ( b. 1961 )

* Michael Clarke ( radio presenter ), Station Manager of Lisburn's 98FM and BBC broadcaster

* Michael Billington – Critic, author and radio presenter.

Gower is now the main presenter of international cricket coverage for Sky Sports and regular commentator alongside former England captains Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussain.

He is perhaps best known as the presenter of the UK's version of This Is Your Life, between its inception in 1955 and his death in 1987, when he was succeeded by Michael Aspel ( who had also succeeded Andrews as host of Crackerjack 22 years earlier ).

* Michael Palin – comedy actor, writer and tv presenter, a supporter of both Sheffield sides who mentions his love of the Owls several times during his travel documentaries ; shouting ' Sheffield Wednesday!

* Michael Absalom, a former CBBC presenter, usually referred to as " Abs " on air

* Michael Parkinson ( 1935 – present ) British talk show host, journalist and television presenter

Famous residents born or who have lived in the area include the political reformer Thomas Muir of Huntershill, the actor and writer Dirk Bogarde, former Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin MP, TV and National Lottery draw presenter Jenni Falconer, singers Amy Macdonald and Lena Martell, as well as former Miss Scotland and Miss United Kingdom Nieve Jennings and actor and rock singer Steve Valentine.

Culshaw performs prank telephone calls, impersonating among others Tom Baker's incarnation of the Doctor, Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, art critic Brian Sewell and talk show presenter Michael Parkinson.

Michael Aspel acted as presenter for the event.

Among the prominent British personalities he portrayed were Eddie Waring, the famously impossible to understand rugby league commentator ; Brian Clough, the controversial football manager ; Robin Day, the then top political interviewer on the BBC ; Magnus Pyke, the eccentric TV science presenter ; Alf Garnett, the star from Till Death Us Do Part ; the fictional American detective Columbo ; Frank Spencer, the comic creation of sitcom actor Michael Crawford ; and Wilson's Conservative Party rival Ted Heath.

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

Michael Terence Aspel, OBE, ( born 12 January 1933 ) is an English television presenter on programmes such as Crackerjack, Aspel and Company, This is Your Life, Strange but True?

Holness joined the BBC as a presenter on Late Night Extra, initially on the BBC Light Programme and later on BBC Radio 1 and 2, presenting alongside people like Terry Wogan, Michael Parkinson and Keith Fordyce.

* Michael Collie ( 1966 -), TV presenter, BBC Midlands Today.

Michael Ryan Flatley ( born July 16, 1958 ) is an Irish-American dancer, choreographer, actor, musician and occasional television presenter.

He was a reporter on the Cardiff evening newspaper The South Wales Echo where he was a contemporary of Michael Buerk ( later to become a distinguished BBC correspondent ) and of Sue Lawley ( later to become presenter of the BBC magazine programme Nationwide ).

Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk ( born 19 May 1942 ) is an English former politician, former independent Member of the European Parliament, and former television presenter, best known for his daytime talk show Kilroy.

TV3 announced a nationwide search for a new presenter of the show, on 4 June they announce that Michael O ' Doherty, Emma Ledden and Gerry Lundberg would judge the applicants on a new TV show called Total Xposure.

* Michael Bradbury, father of TV presenter Julia Bradbury, was born in Tideswell