After the publication of a government green paper on its future, there are very real fears about the shape of the BBC in years to come...
People in television: picture this.
Imagine going into the offices of a television commissioner in, say, the early 2000s. Imagine suggesting that the key to Saturday night viewing on a major television channel involved a show about ballroom dancing, hosted by a man in his late 70s.
Take the context of the last ten or 12 years out of it, and just think for a minute what the reaction would be. Could you imagine a single American network touching it? Can you imagine a commercial broadcaster in the UK giving it a whirl?
Yet in 2003, this is just the proposal that producer Richard Hopkins put together. He took it into the BBC, and, to be fair, got knocked back. A little while later, the BBC...
People in television: picture this.
Imagine going into the offices of a television commissioner in, say, the early 2000s. Imagine suggesting that the key to Saturday night viewing on a major television channel involved a show about ballroom dancing, hosted by a man in his late 70s.
Take the context of the last ten or 12 years out of it, and just think for a minute what the reaction would be. Could you imagine a single American network touching it? Can you imagine a commercial broadcaster in the UK giving it a whirl?
Yet in 2003, this is just the proposal that producer Richard Hopkins put together. He took it into the BBC, and, to be fair, got knocked back. A little while later, the BBC...
- 7/20/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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