Biography

Michael (Mike) Hollingsworth is a UK broadcasting executive and agent. He has also worked continuously for Cancer Research UK, mainly as Head of the VIP supporter team. He has additionally worked with the Down's Syndrome Association in fundraising and for his family charity the Diamond Cot Death Appeal.

Mike left school to become a trainee journalist in the England/Scotland borders reporting on Lake District climbing accidents and Gretna Green runaway marriages. He became a television reporter at 18 after being asked by the BBC to do bank holiday traffic reports!

After working for Anglia TV, he joined the BBC to help start local radio in Leicester and Durham, before creating a national newsdesk for all BBC local television and radio.

Before returning to television in ITV newsrooms, he ran the Jimmy Young "prog" on BBC Radio 2, notably bagging the first interview with Margaret Thatcher as leader of the Tory party, which earned him promotion to Assistant Editor of the Radio 4 "Today" programme.

In 1983 he was a launch Editor of BBC Breakfast Time with Frank Bough and Selina Scott, before being headhunted as Director of Programmes to help save the commercial breakfast tv station. TV-am, from financial bankruptcy. In 1992, after a spell running satellite tv channels on the Sky satellite, he returned to BBC-1 as Executive Producer of daytime programmes.
- IMDb mini biography by: Mike Hollingsworth

Former television executive who became an agent for TV presenters and then worked for Cancer Research UK.