The BBC is under attack from many sides in 2020. With the arrival of a sizeable Conservative majority, rumours abound that the Government wants to do away with the public licence fee. Meanwhile, in an effort to cut costs, redundancies and programme culling has been announced – the most high-profile being the Victoria Derbyshire Show. There are also those (from […]
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Why ‘Call The Midwife’ is the most culturally and politically significant programme on British TV
Call The Midwife started as a quaint, conventional story of a post-WW2 midwifery practice in East London, based on the memoirs of a real-life midwife – Jennifer Worth – and quickly became a Sunday-night ratings success for the BBC. Now into its sixth series, the setting may not have changed and the tales of expectant mothers in poverty still abound, but […]
Read moreHollywood, we have an editing problem
I used to work in magazines and one of the things I loved about writing for them was that you had a fixed word count. Being told a piece had to be 350 words long forced you to be economical with your writing and avoid padding out the piece. TV has a similar restriction placed upon it – making a […]
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