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Thanks for the memories 

AUTHOR: Redvers

8 October 2003 tbs.pm/811

Name dropping signals end of an era for Granada

So, farewell then

Granada TV

Manchester 3.

You were staid

And old fashioned

But you had dignity.

Keith’s mum says

She’d forgotten about you.

But then she’s stopped watching

ITV like

Everyone else.

E J Thribb (Age 47 3/4)

With apologies to Private Eye

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