âI canât go onâ ⦠Laurence Olivier and Helen Mirren in 1976 in The Collection. Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock âI canât go onâ ⦠Laurence Olivier and Helen Mirren in 1976 in The Collection. Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock On his centenary, the veteran producer recalls adding punch to Coronation Street, bringing Brideshead to the screen and his âturbulentâ relationship with one of the acting worldâs greats Mon 19 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT There are more than 22,000 centenarians in the UK, and on 23 April there will be a sprightly addition to their number: Derek Granger, a former Granada TV producer whose credits include Brideshead Revisited and Coronation Street. Talking to Granger in his Thames-side flat, I donât get the sense of a man who lives in the past: the latest books are on his desk alongside current copies of the New Yorker and the Times Literary Supplement, and he talks enthusiastically of pre-lockdown theatre visits to see Andrew Scott in Present Laughter and Ian McKellen in King Lear.