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Tuesday 28th February 2012


A Country without a Story?

A Country without a Story?

The two most important recommendations of the recent UK Film report, according to its author, are (1) that producers should be free to use the money generated by success to invest further – as opposed, I presume, to returning money to public bodies which have funded them – and (2) that producers should work with distributors right from the outset to tailor their film to audiences. All this is in the interest of greater commercial success – but not necessarily mainstream films, the term used by Prime Minister … Read more…

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Friday 6th May 2011


Making the Killing: a Development Strategy that Worked

Making the Killing: a Development Strategy that Worked

Yesterday morning I watched the last four episodes of the Danish series, The Killing. As so often, I was late on this one. If you work in the entertainment industry, you invariably miss the exceptional because you are busy monitoring the ordinary.   But discriminating viewers found it — and in Britain its BBC4 audience rose steadily throughout its run, from about 350,000 to 500,000 for the first run of each episode.  It takes a lot to penetrate the language filter that prevails in Anglo countries. That alone suggest … Read more…

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