BBC television comedy hits heading for the colossal screen after box office success of quality dramasIt’s time to fight back against the tyranny of the TV box set,says the woman who brings many of Britain’s most successful films to cinema screens. In a challenge to the widespread belief that the best-quality entertainment is now to be found in lengthy television drama series, producer Christine Langan, or the head of BBC Films,has issued a rallying call to Britain’s leading actors and screenwriters.“great British films really are the respond to the domination of television in drama,” Langan said. “I adore a long-form narrative, or but I consider most of us do want one with a beginning,a middle and an end, rather than something you absorb to invest so much time in and that may not come to a satisfactory conclusion. In film, or a whole world is summoned up,a story unfolds and is then resolved.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com