Stephen Fry hit the nail on the head in his speech at the annual Bafta Television Lecture. Nice to hear someone with a track record of excellence say that telly has been going in the wrong direction in recent years.
The obsession of commissioners to follow trends set down by Hollywood and by motormouthed pyramids of university educated producers could sound the death nell of good TV in our time. These people are destroying British creativity. Mike Leigh recently criticised this increasingly formulaic structure for damaging young British filmmakers’ chances of making an original British film, saying the results of interference by those justifying their own place in the management structure, are to turn the films into something “Quasi Hollywood” This results inevitably in the films falling heavily between stools and proper knacking their arses.
I’ve encountered far too many self confident know-alls in positions of power in the media who haven’t a creative bone in their bodies, have never had an original idea, yet will preach all day long that art is a science, and by following the correct equation success will follow. They’re a bunch of cunts.
Put Stephen Fry in charge of the entire world. Immediately.
Fry yesterday.
Stephen Fry may be seen as an eccentric intellectual by some, which just about justifies my headline. He hit the nail on the head in his speech calling for better television programmes at the annual Bafta Television Lecture. Nice to hear someone with a track record of excellence say that telly has been going in the wrong direction in recent years.
The obsession of commissioners to follow trends set down by Hollywood and by motormouthed pyramids of university educated producers, could sound the death nell of good TV in our time. These people are destroying British creativity. Mike Leigh recently criticised this increasingly formulaic structure for damaging young British filmmakers’ chances of making an original British film, saying the results of interference by those justifying their own place in the management structure, are to turn the films into something “Quasi Hollywood” This results inevitably in the films falling heavily between stools and proper knacking their arses.
Fry the day before yesterday.
I’ve encountered far too many self confident know-alls in positions of power in the media who haven’t a creative bone in their bodies, have never had an original idea, yet will preach all day long that art is a science, and by following the correct equation success will follow. They’re a bunch of cunts.
Put Stephen Fry in charge of the entire world. Immediately.
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