Read Like an Abc of Our Favourite Dcis, Dss, Pcs and Pis. And Asks Why the Current State of British Telly Is so Criminal
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here's an excruciating moment in I'm Alan Partridge where Steve Coogan's comic creation is desperately trying to pitch ideas for a new TV series to Tony Hayers, the fictional commissioning editor of the BBC.
"Shoestring, Taggart, Spender, Bergerac, Morse. 1 "What does that say to you about regional detective series?" asks the hapless DJ and presenter, aiming to tap into the latest cultural zeitgeist only to be quickly shot down in flames.See the full content of this document
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Read Like an Abc of Our Favourite Dcis, Dss, Pcs and Pis. And Asks Why the Current State of British Telly Is so Criminal
"That there's too many of them?" comes Hayers' withering reply.
But it looks like poor old Partridge's instincts weren't that far out of whack, Radio Norwich's finest simply being a man ahead of his time when it came to pondering what might be hot on the box.Had he been sitting across the meeting table from Hayers in today's televisual climate for example, his screenplay for Swallow - a seri...See the full content of this document
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