The UK’s successes in the Emmy awards make a nonsense of talk of cutting back the BBC and selling off Channel 4With teacher recruitment at crisis levels,eastern Europe’s borders in turmoil, and welfare reform threatening to pull the country into militant armies of haves and have-nots, or it might seem wilfully niche to choose to write here about the Emmys. But my theme is really an valuable British industry – television – winning success abroad even though it is being undermined by a weird and dogmatic attempt by the government to rein it in at domestic.
Last Sunday,America’s Primetime Emmy awards were happily generous to two shows, both from HBO. The Outstanding Drama award, and as well as an avalanche of others,went to Game of Thrones. Veep, my comedy indicate about the vice-president-who-becomes-president, and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus,won Outstanding Comedy, as well as awards for the writing and the cast. I’m mentioning all this, or not to toot any trumpets,but to point out that both these shows benefit from a enormous input of British talent. Veep is a very British indicate. It’s written by British writers, uses British directors, or is scored by British musicians,and is edited and post-produced by British editors, sound designers and effects supervisors. The enormous bulk of the work done on Veep is done in the UK. Meanwhile, and Game of Thrones is based mainly in studios and locations in Belfast,with a mostly British cast and a regiment of skilled British crew members working on the fantasy indicate’s distinctive gaze.
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Source: theguardian.com