[…] of all television channels, a proliferation of things all over the place. You haven't got the clean cut picture of what's going on when you had BBC, ITV. It isn't as clean cut a world now it's all over the place, but I'm just an idealist. I just hope there's gonna be a bit of a breakthrough by some[…]
[…]lm after lovely film. Until the mid’50s you didn’t touch television and according to the list, it was a film for television in ’57. Play of the Week, ITV.RENÉE GLYNNE: Ah, like Laura or I don’t know what ... The Telephone.DARROL BLAKE: Heaven and Earth. (TIME 36.10)RENÉE GLYNNE: […]
[…] from the start. You think? You know, yes. But there’s a great thirst. Yes, you’re not going to get it on ITV in prime time. But there’s a great, maybe not, but there’s a great thirst for all things connected with, especially with the film and T[…]
[…]I mean, I think, I think, you know, I didn't experience what it was like to be a PA at the BBC, or I did. I did a couple of I did a bit of PA ing for ITV at some point, but I very quickly after doing the work for telecation, after doing the kids series, I grew up sort of graduated to to being a prod[…]
[…]As a result of which I got asked to do, and then (by now I was I was in my fourth or fifth year now at the BBC) and I then got asked to do Hamlet for ITV and I couldn't because I was under contract to BBC. And it was Dr. Richard. Richard Chamberlain. Yeah, he was gonna do Hamlet. Yeah. And he asked […]
[…]because when it came in the 80s. We had this flourishing of independent production companies who were commissioned by Channel 4 and later the BBC and ITV to make programmes for them. People like Acme?productions or you know Barney Straw? production companies who actually make the programs and sell t[…]
[…]they were enough to get an interest in in I think whether they were ever shown on television, I have a feeling they probably weren't [they were tx on ITV in 1958]. But they must have survived somewhere. And he then got his sort of first proper things. And I think the Journey of Master Ho was rather […]
[…]nk, Jeremy was very, Jeremy Isaacs, was very instrumental in that in that he did give people a chance, and would back things, and, in the way that in ITV and BBC people had been willing to back things then, so that there was a, a very rich source of programmes, and people weren’t afraid to stand by […]
[…];Darrol Blake 11:47 Prior to that, though there had been other television series, presumably, I mean animated things for BBC or ITV, Kent Houston 11:55 I never did very much in the way TV series, except when I was working for Halas and […]
