Idiot Box
Gemma ArrowsmithVery occasional thoughts about the TV & radio industries (mostly)
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Bypassing The Fortress
Did anyone else have those ‘Record of Achievement’ Diaries at school? Ours was red and you wrote your homework in it. And every week you had to get it signed by your parents. (They had to redesign the diary and move the parent’s signature f...
Will the audience sitcom ever return?
Back in 2012 the BBC ran a writing competition called ‘Laugh Track’ which was looking for the next big audience sitcom. It was when Miranda was riding high in the ratings and multi-camera sitcoms seemed to be coming back in vogue again? May...
I stood in the room where the first BBC television programme was broadcast in 1936!
Back in 2018 I was working on Tracey Breaks the News, a topical offshoot of Tracey Ullman’s Show. Some of it was filmed at Halliford Studios, a tiny little TV studio near Shepperton which hadn’t changed much since it was built in 1955, the...
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