When I was at primary school a teacher told my class that there was no such thing as black paint or ink or dye: anything that was called black would, if you looked hard at it, turn out to be dark brown or blue or some other colour. Because black is not a colour, it [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘television’
July 25, 2007
BBC values
A disheartened BBC employee told me that there is now no chance of getting a ‘factual’ programme commissioned unless:
it has a presenter dominating the screen, as if the audience will be uneasy watching the world outside their home without an implausibly friendly stranger – someone richer, or posher, or younger, or more attractive than them [...]
