Tributes Flood in After Death of Michael Parkinson, Doyen of TV Interviewers

Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer calls him a 'broadcasting giant'

Michael Parkinson receiving a CBE at Buckingham Palace in London on Nov. 24, 2000. Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA

One of the most famous British interviewers of the TV age, Sir Michael Parkinson, has died at the age of 88 and tributes have started pouring in.

Sir Michael, whose Saturday night chat show was regularly watched by an audience of 12 million people in the 1970s and early 1980s, died “peacefully” at home on Wednesday surrounded by his family.