Kieran Prendiville
Kieran Prendiville (born 25 December 1947) is an English-Irish television writer, producer, and presenter. Early life. Prendiville was born on 25 December 1947 in Rochdale, Lancashire, the son of an Irish father from Killorglin, County Kerry, who had relocated to Rochdale to practise medicine. He attended Clongowes Wood College in Clane, County Kildare, the same Jesuit boarding school his father had attended. Career. Presenting. Working alongside Glyn Worsnip, Prendiville was a presenter of the BBC consumer programme "That's Life!" from 1973 to 1978. Also featuring on "Tomorrow's World", the BBC's science programme, an urban  myth has it that he claimed that the CD was indestructible and that he demonstrated this by spreading strawberry jam on a copy of the Bee Gees' "Living Eyes"; this in fact happened on BBC Breakfast Time. He was the BBC's on-site commentator on the first Space Shuttle mission, reporting from Cape Canaveral and Edwards Air Force Base. He was also a reporter at football matches on the BBC's "Grandstand" Saturday afternoon sports program in the 1980s. Writing. The creator of the 1990s BBC dramas "Ballykissangel" and "Roughnecks", Prendiville's other writing credits include episodes of "The  Bill", "Boon" and "Perfect Scoundrels" (all ITV). He received praise and criticism for "Care" (2000), his controversial drama about child abuse in a Welsh children's home.