Archive for January, 2008
Update and strategy
I now have a new radio producer in PK. We’ve all agreed that I can still work with JW as well so I have an independent producer as well as one in-house. The proposal for The Lodger is being considered and PK thinks the grand guignol aspect might put it in a preferred category. “But [...]
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Radio developments
A Saturday afternoon call from my agent, D. She’s had an email from PK at BBC radio. He wants to see the Lodger proposal and is interested in becoming my point of contact in the department now that J has retired. I’ve just written to him and enclosed the treatment. I’ve also put Bentwaters aside [...]
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Christmas Television
Some random thoughts…
Pop psychology is ruining drama. I caught a glimpse of an animated Christmas Carol where Scrooge’s misanthropy was explained by a flashback to his time in an orphanage when he was the only child who didn’t get a visitor for Christmas. And in the brand new shiny Oliver, Bill Sykes couldn’t get his [...]
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2008
Christmas and the New Year are done. Time to start work again. Given the uncertainties over the Bentwaters play and the Arts Council cuts I toyed with the idea of setting it aside for now. But unfinished work has a way of draining your energy. I need to get the next draft done before I [...]
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