[…]the thing, of course, was that cinema attendances were then so low. Because of the novelty of television, people weren't going----- INT This was when ITV started.This was when ITV started, yes. INT That was 1955. That must have been a ----That was a big blow, yes. INT A very sudden drop in attendanc[…]
[…]rticipation that the union had less and less industrial clout but in these days of course films counted for nothing the the the the money spinner was ITV, that funded the union and they were obstreperous in some respects.  The Union was beginning to fall apart it was so badly managed one h[…]
[…]oducing Link which was a community project that Central ran at the time in the days when Central, when, when the independent un-centralised ITV companies still did run some community daytime television and they, they found the money for that. And Link was about the disabled on th[…]
[…]I hadn't got over to the other side in fact I'd never been asked to. There was quite. BBC was occupying me pretty fully and I was a bit frightened of ITV. So I went on doing plays for the BBC and I think that the first ITV one was I can't remember what year but I think it wasn't until ‘68, quite lat[…]
[…]o, three years.Lew Grade : Oh! Unbelievable. I just can't understand it.Alan Sapper : You know, this ... that Television Act has destroyed, you know, ITV as we knew it. As it served the public.Lew Grade : Yes. It's a terrible thing to have a central planning committee who approve everything, I mean […]
