Category: media

“For better or worse, Mr. Key’s government has taken extreme measures that have linked its fortunes to some of Hollywood’s biggest pictures, making this country of 4.4 million people, slightly more than the city of Los Angeles, a grand experiment in the fusion of film and government.”

Well, if there was an easy answer, no shows would ever fail. There are no easy answers. But here’s a theory for network TV right now: There are just too many shows.

Addressing actors and writers at the event, Steven Moffat warned that the BBC is “under terrible attack” and urged the industry to defend it. He said if no one speaks out in support of the Corporation it “will never be here again”. “That light will go out. And that would be a terrible and awful thing for everyone in this room. So let’s start shouting now,” he added.

“Filmmakers are pushing hard against, and sometimes dispensing with, storytelling conventions, and audiences seem willing to follow them.”

“There is no drama set in engineering, in marketing, in insurance, or in any of the things that most people actually do. Ordinary work is only considered fit for comedy.”

“But heroes have been in short supply in the country’s hour of need, which could explain the rush to cinemas to spend time in the company of an 18th-century pirate turned luxury foodstuffs tycoon.” The film’s title: God Loves Caviar.

“The strict regulatory shackles of the past don’t work in today’s fast-moving environment, CBC president Hubert Lacroix told a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearing Monday.”

“On behalf of my family, and particularly my late father, I wish to convey my sincerest apologies and deepest regrets to those who were victimized by this unfortunate incident.”

Alongside recommendations to reform statutory damages for copyright infringement, expand fair use and punish false copyright claims, the report stated, “Current copyright law does not merely distort some markets — rather it destroys entire markets”

“‘The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste,’ the playwright Joe Orton once wrote. That motto might be stitched into the silk pillowcase of the TV creator [of Glee, American Horror Story and The New Normal], whose taste is called into question nearly every week.”