[…]p; “Essentially … I was waiting for Channel 4 to launch in 82”. I wasn’t made Head of Documentaries at Thames, bizarre because I was clearly the right person, so it was easy to resign an[…]
[…] with Doomwatch, which was a two-hour film we did for Channel 5. And there’s a wonderful quote, I’ve got it in […]
[…]t Angel. And, obviously... At least he did approach me, and I went to meet this company Art Angel, who invested a lot in art. And they got money from Channel 4 to make a film, and they got, Mike Figgis directed it. And they wouldn’t employ, they would not pay me or my miner friend, Terry Dunn, who h[…]
[…]for that was television because television got to the point where they were prepared to buy anything. They need product because, if you look how many channels there are now, they buy anything. And the BBC told us as a lab once, “Any film you’ve got, we’ll buy, and we don’t care if you don’t know who[…]
[…]rom the network or reassembled the network and the local station, between the network and the local station, so we were all in effect part of WCBS TV channel 2 New York City and the CBS Television Network. Rodney Giesler:So you were going from coast to coast were you?Roy Fowler:No, no, no, no t[…]
[…] independent sector. The move to multiple broadcasters which started with Channel 5 and Sky in the late eighties was modelled on […]