David Renwick interview

In The Manchester Evening News, Ian Wylie talks to Guild member David Renwick about the return of Jonathan Creek.

He’s now less inclined to try and create a brand new project because of the length of time it takes to bring to the screen. “You do have to look at time like a geologist, really. Ten years is nothing at all in terms of getting a show on air.”

Then there’s the use of focus groups and other devices that interfere with a TV writer’s work, as he highlighted in one scene during the second series of Love Soup.

“That’s an increasing worry to me. I have led a bit of a charmed life – I have been more or less left alone, thus far. I find it all a very horrifying prospect. You get on the BBC’s internal system and they’ve got hundreds of pages of research reports about attempting to dissect and analyse every genre – comedy, entertainment and drama, with all the pie charts and breakdowns."