[4] In 2000, Prebble had agreed to pay £315 million over three years for TV rights to the Football League, but low user penetration, a conflict over carriage rights with Sky and high debt led ITV Digital's parent investors to walk away.
[5] In Autumn 2002 he left ITV to set up an independent television production company based in London and the North East called Liberty Bell.
Other TV productions for Liberty Bell have included 3 Men in a Boat for BBC2, Why We Went to War for More4, The Alastair Campbell Diaries for BBC2, and Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory for Channel 4.
These include two early novels, A Power in the Land, and The Lazarus File, as well as five comedy books on "Grumpy" themes.
He is the co-author of "Black and Blue" with Parm Sandhu, who was the most senior female BAME officer when she retired from the Met in 2019.