# Tim Hewat

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**Timothy Edward Patterson Hewat** (4 May 1928 – 19 May 2004) was an Australian television producer and journalist. He has been described as the "maverick genius of [Granada television](/source/Granada_TV)'s current affairs in its formative years" and "one of the true greats of the medium."[1]

Born in New Zealand, he was raised in Australia and educated at [Geelong Grammar School](/source/Geelong_Grammar_School), where a contemporary was [Rupert Murdoch](/source/Rupert_Murdoch).[1] After a start as a cub reporter on the [Melbourne Age](/source/Melbourne_Age), he migrated to London in 1948. He was a reporter, then a sub-editor on the [Daily Express](/source/Daily_Express), followed by a move to Canada to work at *[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)* in Toronto.

Returning to Britain in the late 1950s, he joined Granada TV's *Searchlight* programme (1959–60) in [Manchester](/source/Manchester) as a current affairs producer. Hewat is most celebrated for creating Granada's revolutionary and long-running *[World in Action](/source/World_in_Action)* in 1963.

Hewat later went back briefly to the *Daily Express* as a senior editorial executive. His second marriage was to Granada casting director Ann Suudi. They had two children. He returned to Australia in the late 1960s and wrote many self-help books. He died aged 76 from injuries sustained in a road accident.[1]

## Works

- *Who Made the Mabo Mess*, Wrightbooks, North Brighton, Vic., c1993.
- *The Intelligent Investor's Guide to Share Buying*, 3rd edition, Wrightbooks, North Brighton, Vic., 1994.

## Notes

1. ["Tim Hewat"](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/dec/04/guardianobituaries.media). *The Guardian*. 4 December 2004. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

## External links

- [Tim Hewat](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0381958/) at IMDb

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