How To Write A Screenplay:
New Strategy Likely For BBC3 And BBC4 Drama |
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The Director of BBC Vision, Jana Bennett, has said there will be a “renewal” of drama on BBC3. According to a newspaper interview, Ms Bennett has also suggested that BBC4 will move away from its reliance on biographical commissions. These have included its Curse of Comedy series featuring biopics about comedians Frankie Howerd, Tony Hancock, the Steptoe and Son actors Wilfred Bramble and Harry H Corbett, and the presenter Hughie Green. Ms Bennett said that biopics will not be the only type of drama programme the channels will be known for. “They may not drop completely but there will be other new types in the mix coming through.” Ms Bennett was speaking to The Guardian (September 29 2008). Referring back to concerns expressed earlier in the year that the BBC’s drama commissioning strategy was dominated by the tastes of one woman, the Controller of BBC Fiction, Jane Tranter, Ms Bennett stressed: “There isn’t one voice coming out of BBC drama – there are many.” This echoes something Ms Tranter said at the third Screenwriters’ Festival in Cheltenham, in July 2008. Stating that while she was controller of BBC fiction, she only commissioned drama, not comedy or films. “I do not personally like every piece of television drama I commission. It’s not commissioned to my taste: it would be very odd if it were,” she said. “What we try and do is a public service … we want to make something that every licence payer wants to watch, but not necessarily at the same time.” www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/29/jana.bennett.bbc
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