http://standpointmag.co.uk/taxonomy/term/23 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://standpointmag.co.uk/tv-may-13-a-managerial-not-a-creative-crisis-nick-cohen-tony-hall-savile-bbc <p><b>Author:</b>Nick Cohen</p><p style="text-align: justify">Not coming to a television near you soon: Kevin Spacey in Netflix’s online-only series “House of Cards”</p><p style="text-align: justify">As successive director-generals have found out, running the BBC is no laughing matter. If Tony Hall is to make a success of it, he must get &quot;the reporter and the editor in the Sahara&quot; joke. Allow me to share it with you.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">A plane crashes in the Sahara. Only a reporter and an editor survive. At first they hope that rescuers will see the smoke rising from the wreckage. But the fire dies, and no one comes. They are lost and alone under a merciless sun, and start walking.</p><p><a href="http://standpointmag.co.uk/tv-may-13-a-managerial-not-a-creative-crisis-nick-cohen-tony-hall-savile-bbc"><span>read more</span></a></p> http://standpointmag.co.uk/tv-may-13-a-managerial-not-a-creative-crisis-nick-cohen-tony-hall-savile-bbc#comments Television House Of Cards iTunes Netflix Newsnight Savile row The BBC Tony Hall TV Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:26:10 +0100 Frances Weaver 4964 at http://standpointmag.co.uk