In G2 Arts (13 October), you quote Alan Parker as saying he wrote The Evacuees. Alan Parker would never claim such a thing, so it has to be a mistake. The Emmy-award-winning play was written by the late, great playwright, Jack Rosenthal, at the behest of the late, great head of Granada TV’s drama department, Peter Eckersley, in the days when ideas were suggested, assessed and commissioned. It was Alan’s first TV play as a director and my first TV play as an actress playing her own mother-in-law.
Maureen Lipman
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- 10/14/2015
- by Letters
- The Guardian - Film News
Producer and director Michael Apted pays tribute to the former Granada TV chairman who died last week
When I joined Granada in 1963, I was part of a small group straight out of university (which included Mike Newell) chosen by Sir Denis Forman, in his role as head of programmes, to train at the company. It was the place to be – ahead of the field in current affairs, drama, light entertainment and comedy. I doubt any of us has any idea of how lucky we were to be asked to join.
Granada was a small company, with neither the space nor resources for serious training, so ours was on-the-job. I did news, some small documentaries, football matches, church services, World In Action, then on to Coronation Street and eventually into drama, working with some to the best writers of their generation: Jack Rosenthal, Arthur Hopcraft and Colin Welland. In those early years,...
When I joined Granada in 1963, I was part of a small group straight out of university (which included Mike Newell) chosen by Sir Denis Forman, in his role as head of programmes, to train at the company. It was the place to be – ahead of the field in current affairs, drama, light entertainment and comedy. I doubt any of us has any idea of how lucky we were to be asked to join.
Granada was a small company, with neither the space nor resources for serious training, so ours was on-the-job. I did news, some small documentaries, football matches, church services, World In Action, then on to Coronation Street and eventually into drama, working with some to the best writers of their generation: Jack Rosenthal, Arthur Hopcraft and Colin Welland. In those early years,...
- 3/4/2013
- by John Plunkett
- The Guardian - Film News
Here's a look back at Back Stage's top 10 memories:10. Undead DAYTIMEBack in 2009—when the daytime-drama format looked to be going the way of the wild polar bear—American Federation of Television and Radio Artists New York local president Holter Graham sounded a mournful note about the format's future. "The writing was on the wall about daytime and that it was a changing market a long time ago," Graham said. "The economic crisis given to us by the Bush administration sped up that process and made that writing on the wall bright yellow highlighter."That highlighter ink didn't wash away in 2010, but it faded a little. In 2009, CBS announced that its long-running soaps "Guiding Light" and "As the World Turns" would come to an end. This year no such similar announcement came, the networks instead making multiyear commitments to dramas such as "The Young and the Restless" and "Days of Our Lives.
- 12/29/2010
- backstage.com
When the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved passage on Nov. 18 of legislation aimed at battling online content piracy, the road ahead of the bill looked smooth. Champions of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act—among them the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists—could boast of broad, bipartisan support and assurances that President Obama would sign the bill into law should it arrive on his desk.By the end of the day, that road was closed. Hours after the Judiciary Committee meeting, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced that he would seek to block Coica. Senate rules allow individual legislators to place holds on bills."Deploying this statute to combat online copyright infringement seems almost like using a bunker-busting cluster bomb, when what you need is a precision-guided missile," Wyden said. "If you don't think this thing through carefully, the collateral damage would be American innovation,...
- 12/1/2010
- backstage.com
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