[…]it was unexpectedly good, put it this way.I’ll give you another example, later in my career. I became Controller of Factual Programmes at the new boy TVS, Television South which took over the South-East franchise from Southern Television. The great thing about being Controller, I discovered, was tha[…]
[…]esting. For a weekday comedy, where do we slot it? After Coronation Street or after This Week? How good is it? Horse-trading. Greg Dyke at LWT turned TVS into satellite production company for weekend schedule. Alan Boyd was TVS Director of Programmes, so I’d say to him ‘If you do all that for the we[…]
[…] would you say?TE: I would say for the home viewers you’re trying to create a satisfying look, shall we say. You can never guarantee what everybody’s TVs are set up like so you have to just go by what you see on a properly set up monitor at the transmission stage. You want to produce an enjoyable, s[…]
[…]o run part of the ITV schedule, kids and various other bits and pieces schedule so I knew the kind of geography of the Network, so to speak, but when TVS lost their license in the South-East, I moved in and hired some of their people, took over some of their programmes and we built a big portfolio o[…]
[…]iting in the wings, unquestionably. And it was a group that Brian Young had somehow got together, which had failed down in Southern Television, TVS had got the contract in the South, and another group had got together, and he had various people together said, “Look, they’ll get the contract, a[…]
50 Years of British TV Documentaries: A Diary of Decline, by a film editor – Simon Rose 2014 With his unique perspective […]
