'They're destroying the BBC.'(producer Phillippa Giles' worries about future plans for market-led system)(includes related article on producer choice policy) (Interview)

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Phillippa Giles, 33-year-old producer of 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' and 'A Fatal Inversion', explains her worries about BBC plans, introduced by John Birt, to use producer choice from Apr 1993. In-house talent would be lost because it is too specialised and the design department would be priced out of the market as it has to carry part of the BBC's overheads. The first business unit set up, the film unit at Ealing is 2 million pounds sterling out of pocket. Programmes win or lose the Charter for the BBC and if the culture that produces the programmes is affected by producer choice the Charter may not be renewed. BBC training and opportunities would disappear and management would increase in the name of efficiency.

British Broadcasting Corp., Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Television, Giles, Phillippa(Producer)

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The difficult man from Manchester

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David Plowright, ex-chairman of Granada TV, is establishing a satellite newsagency and is a consultant to the Premier League. He is also involved in a media training centre at Salford University College. He joined Granada from newspapers in 1957 and worked his way up. Good programmes and good profits were the rationale, not the other way round. Programme-led scheduling is changing to market-led scheduling in the 1990's, which means more of the same type of programmes, omitting new ideas and risk-taking programmes which develop talent.

Appreciation, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Television programs, Television stations, Granada Television International Ltd., Plowright, David

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Have the likely lads had their last laugh?

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Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, both 54, wrote many popular television drama series, including 'The Likely Lads' and 'Porridge.' In 1993 their new series, a comedy on ITV, 'Full Stretch,' is only watched by 7.7 million. Carlton TV's managing director Paul Jackson expects peak-time shows to reach 10 million. Clement and La Frenais live in Los Angeles. They established one of the first independent companies in the UK, Witzend Productions, to make comedy drama series.

Product introduction, Personalities, Authorship, Television comedy writers, Television authorship, Television writing, Clement, Dick, La Frenais, Ian, Witzend Productions

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