Although Michael Parkinson's talk shows had a live band and musical interludes, there were no sidekicks and no monologue, as the former print journalist for the Guardian focused on serious interviews with almost every international celebrity you could name--"Parkinson" ran for eleven years on BBC1 from 1971 to 1982, when he left to help start with several other noted British broadcasters (including David Frost) tvAM, the ITV network's first venture into morning television, but like most of his colleagues left a few years into its existence as the attempt at a more cultured morning show was dropped for something more like what the American morning shows had become (and, surprisingly, the BBC's original morning show, which beat tvAM on the air by a few weeks in 1982)--after doing various radio and TV work (including a stint on BBC Radio 4's famous "Desert Island Discs") he returned to the "Parkinson" format from 1998 to 2007, moving from BBC1 to ITV in the middle of the run--death by undisclosed illness at home earlier today:
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