TELEVISION
May 2013
British television editors still live in the 1980s, where the world of Netflix and iTunes is a distant dream
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April 2013
Mayday showed the originality so often lacking in management-led and prescriptive British television
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March 2013
Middlebrow TV drama like Death in Paradise is what tired viewers want and British writers do best
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January/February 2013
In broadcasting, as in literature, cynical writers devoid of self-belief are doomed to fail
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