Award-winning writer Paul Abbott has continued his pressure on broadcasters, with a demand they commission more single films on television.More from Liz Thomas in The Stage.
The outspoken creator of Channel 4’s hit series Shameless, which follows the lives of the dysfunctional Gallagher family on a sink estate in Manchester and has won popular and critical acclaim, said that the reluctance to make screenplays was a problem for the UK.
He warned: “If someone has a brilliant idea for a 90-minute film, they go to the UK Film Council, get funding and release it as a cinema-release film, instead of as TV film. The BBC rarely pays for TV films anymore.”
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Abbott calls for more TV films
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He's quite right. And the outcome is too often a stilted piece of cinema divorced from its true audience and natural home.
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