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| About Mike |
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The baby of six, Mike had a South London upbringing and eventually the family settled down in Surrey where, during school holidays, you could hear Mike shouting as he was selling fruit 'n' veg on a stall. Mike got into the motor trade in his late teens and quickly built a reputation for being sharp and honest, Mike set up and ran the biggest 4x4 centre in the south of England importing cars from around the globe. Mike embarked on his television career through pure luck. He answered a friend’s telephone and discovered he was talking to a television producer. A long chat and a few anecdotes ensued and he was hired for the first series of Deals On Wheels. His success in this role led him into the presenter’s position on Driven. 2003 Mike presented the final series of Driven for Ch 4 (over 100 episodes in total) but also branched out and recorded several other programmes for the Discovery Channel and ITV. Mike was seen presenting several specials including Driven at Le Mans. As well as The British Rally Championships for Ch 4 Sports and now Sky sports, at all the meetings around the country for the sixth year running, and has been re-commissioned for 2008. Mike has also had his own format commissioned. Called Remote Madness it will be shown on the Discovery Channel in 2003. It’s a game show that’s made up of radio-controlled craft racing each other over obstacles. Mike was also thrilled to be asked to present Channel Four’s flagship programme about overcoming disability in Britain called Celebrity Wheelchair Challenge. Mike oversaw Gaby Roslin, Tanya Strecker and Sean Hughes to travel from Edinburgh to London in a wheelchair. This was a pioneering show, which attracted huge ratings for Channel Four, and it was a departure from the type of programme he normally presents. 2004 was a busy year for Mike with Wheeler Dealer’s, British Rally, a new house Building programme ‘House Race’ for ITV1 Central, and his own Motoring programme for ITV1 national, called ‘Wrecks to Riches’ that was aired this spring. ITV1 also commissioned Mike to front up another motoring series called ‘Revved-Up’ for transmission autumn 2004. Several other ventures, like wheelerdealer.com keep Mike on his toes because they put the motoring knowledge of Mike Brewer within the public’s reach together with Mike’s weekly and monthly columns for Esquire and Auto-Express. Mike Is also a keen Motorcyclist, he has a healthy passion for fast bikes, and has ridden many for various TV programmes, and Mike has recently presented the fantastic races of the Isle of Man TT and has been re-commissioned to present in 2008 for ITV4. 2005 was a busy year with several production companies courting Mike to front shows for them and broadcasters wanting Mike to make shows with he’s newly formed production company X2 Productions, X2 was set up in February 2005 with ITV’s executive producer Mike Burch together they won the commission for Pulling Power, a network ITV1 magazine car show and King for Day a ground breaking male makeover show that Mike both presented and produced, again for ITV. Pulling Power has been re-commissioned for summer 2008 and Mike has also secured a 15 week commission for Discovery Real Time for a new used car show called Autotrader, quite possibly the first mast-head deal done between a broadcaster and a magazine. Mike will be presenting another of the popular motoring makeover show for Discovery Real Time ‘Wheeler Dealers’ now in its 5th year. Sky Sports will be having Mike present the British Rally Championship for the 6th year for Sky Sports 1 and several other projects are on going. Formula 1, computers and ‘toys for boys’ vie for a place in Brewer's heart, and beside his passion for cars he is also a keen flyer of model helicopters, for which he has won awards. He is the current holder of the British 24hr endurance record. He lives in North Oxford with his Wife Michelle and their daughter Chloe. Celebrity wheelchair challenge for channel 4 2002 He’s gotta have it, 2 series for Discovery Europe 2002 – 2003 Remote Madness 1 series for Discovery Europe 2002 Wheeler Dealers 6 series for Discovery Europe 2003 - 2009 Wrecks to Riches ITV1 2004 House Race ITV1 2004 Revved Up ITV1 2004 Royal Television Society (Best Presenter) Award 2004 Pulling Power ITV1 Presenter-Producer 2005 - 2008 King for a Day ITV1 Presenter-Producer 2005 Isle Of Man TT Men and Motors-Sky 2005 Build a Sportscar Greenlight TV – DVD 2005 The British Sportscar industry Greenlight TV -DVD 2005 Autotrader Discovery Real Time, Presenter-producer 2006 Isle of Man TT ITV4 – presenter 2007 - 2008 Pulling Power ITV1 Presenter-Producer 2007 Isle of Man TT ITV4 – presenter 2008 Pulling Power ITV1 Presenter-Producer 2008 Columnist Autoexpress 2000 – current Columnist Esquire 2000 – current After-dinner speaker Event host Web site, www.wheelerdealer.com |
Ex -Car trader Mike Brewer has spent most of his 43 years selling thousands of motor vehicles and is perhaps best known as the star of Channel 4's second-hand car show Deals On Wheels and the top-rated motoring programme Driven.