Summary
'APPARENTLY," sighs Tony Marchant, "I'm a show-runner." The new- fangled term comes from the US and, as Britain's pre-eminent television dramatist understands it, means a writer taking responsibility for his idea and overseeing the entire production. Nothing wrong with the concept, he argues, but must we adopt the Americanism?
There's a lot about American TV that Marchant - the man behind the searing, polemical and very British dramas Holding On and Goodbye Cruel World - does not like. Such as Lost. "Glossy, meretricious crap," is his damning verdict.See the full content of this document
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Bending the Rules to Make Babies
"It's pricktease TV. It only exists to pull you in for the first five minutes and the last five minutes. In between, nothing happens. The creative impulses aren't honourable, they're all about: 'Let's get a 26-week season, then another.'"
Marchant, 45, was a boxer in his youth and he's pulling no punches in th...See the full content of this document
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