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Encyclopedia > BBC television drama
Cathy Come Home, a 1966 entry into The Wednesday Play anthology series, voted the best drama and second highest programme overall in the British Film Institute's 2000 survey of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century.
Cathy Come Home, a 1966 entry into The Wednesday Play anthology series, voted the best drama and second highest programme overall in the British Film Institute's 2000 survey of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century.

The British Broadcasting Corporation has been a producer and broadcaster of television drama since even before it had an officially established television broadcasting network in the United Kingdom. As with any major broadcast network, drama forms an important part of its schedule, with many of the BBC's top-rated programmes being from this genre. Image File history File links Cathycomehome. ... Image File history File links Cathycomehome. ... Carol White as Cathy at the beginning of the play. ... The Wednesday Play was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on BBC ONE from 1964 to 1970. ... The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and... 100 Greatest British Television Programmes was a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI) chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre ever to have been screened. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...


From the 1950s through to the 1980s the BBC received much acclaim for the range and scope of its drama productions, producing series, serials and plays across a range of genres, from soap opera to science-fiction to costume drama, with the 1970s in particular being regarded as a critical and cultural high point in terms of the quality of dramas being produced. In the 1990s, a time of change in the British television industry, the department went through much internal confusion and external criticism, but since the beginning of the 21st century has begun to return to form with a run of critical and popular successes, despite continual accusations of the drama output and the BBC in general dumbing down. For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A costume drama is a period piece in which elaborate costumes, sets and properties are featured in order to capture the ambience of a particular era. ... British television broadcasting has a range of different broadcasters, broadcasting multiple channels over a variety of distribution media. ... Dumbing down is a usually derogatory term which refers to the simplifying of a subject, often education, news and TV amongst others. ...


Many BBC productions have also been exported to and screened in other countries, particularly in the United States PBS network's Masterpiece Theatre strand and latterly on the BBC's own BBC America cable channel. Other major purchasers of BBC dramas include the BBC's equivalents in other Commonwealth nations, such as Australia's ABC and Canada's CBC. Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ... Masterpiece Theatre is a long-running anthology television series produced by WGBH which premiered on PBS on January 10, 1971. ... BBC America is an American television network, owned and operated by BBC Worldwide, which was launched on March 29, 1998, available on both cable and satellite. ... Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ... CBC Television is a Canadian English language television network. ...

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Experimental broadcasting and the 1930s

Already an established national radio broadcaster, the BBC began test transmissions with the new technology of television in 1929, working with John Logie Baird and using his primitive early apparatus.[1] The following year, as part of one of these test transmissions, the BBC screened their first television drama production, an adaptation of the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello's short play The Man With the Flower in His Mouth.[2] Bust of John Logie Baird in Helensburgh. ... Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. ... The Man With the Flower in His Mouth is a play by the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. ...


Broadcast live at 3.30pm on July 14, 1930,[3] the play was produced from a small studio in the Baird Company headquarters at 133 Long Acre, London.[4] The play was chosen because of its confined setting, small cast and short length, and was directed by Val Gielgud, who was at the time the BBC's senior producer of radio drama.[4] Because of the primitive 30-line camera technology, only one figure could be shown on screen at a time and the field of vision of the cameras was extremely restricted.[4] The Prime Minister of the day, Ramsay MacDonald, watched the play with his family on the Baird Televisor Baird had previously installed at their 10 Downing Street home.[5] The reviewer for The Times newspaper commented that: "This afternoon on the roof of 133, Long Acre will prove to be a memorable one... The time for interest and curiosity is come, but the time for serious criticism of television plays, as plays, is not yet."[4] Live television refers to television broadcasts of events or performances on a delay of between zero and fifteen seconds, rather than from video recordings or film. ... is the 195th day of the year (196th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Val Henry Gielgud (born April 28, 1900 in London, England, UK; died November 30, 1981 in London, England, UK) was a English actor, writer, director and broadcaster. ... The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is, in practice, the political leader of the United Kingdom. ... James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ... “TV” redirects here. ... Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney stand in front of the famous main door to Number 10. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1788. ...


The BBC's test broadcasts continued throughout the early part of the decade as the quality of the medium improved. In 1936 the BBC launched the world's first "high-definition" — then defined as at least 240-lines[6] — television channel, the BBC Television Service, from studios in a specially converted wing of Alexandra Palace in London.[6] At the time of the channel's debut on November 2, 1936 there were only five television producers responsible for the entire output.[7] The producer selected to oversee drama was George More O'Ferrall, who had some experience with working in a visual medium as he was a former assistant director of films.[7] This was unlike most of his colleagues, who came across from the BBC's radio services.[7] BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC, and the first in the United Kingdom. ... Alexandra Palace from the south Alexandra Palace was built in an area spanning Wood Green and Muswell Hill, North London, England in 1873 as a public entertainment centre and North London counterpart of The Crystal Palace. ... is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... An assistant director (AD) is a person who helps the film director in the making of a movie. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...


The first drama production to be mounted as a part of the new, regular service was a twenty-five-minute selection of scenes from the West End play Marigold by L. Allen Harker and F. R. Pryor,[8] produced by O'Ferrall with the original London Royalty Theatre cast.[9] This was broadcast live from the Alexandra Palace studios on the evening of Friday November 6, 1936.[10] Later BBC Television Head of Drama Shaun Sutton wrote about the production for The Times in 1972. "It was probably little more than a photographed version of the stage production, with the camera lying well back to preserve the picture-frame convention of the theatre."[10] Most initial drama efforts were of a similar scale; productions of selected dramatised 'scenes' or excerpts from popular novels and adaptations of stage plays, and a programme entitled Theatre Parade would regularly use original London theatre casts for re-enacting selected scenes.[11] West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre... The Royalty Theatre was a London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho. ... November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Shaun Alfred Graham Sutton OBE (born October 14, 1919 in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom; died May 14 2004 in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom) was a British television writer, director, producer and executive, who worked in the medium for nearly forty years from the 1950s to the 1990s. ... Theatre Parade was a British television programme, one of the worlds very first regular shows, running on the BBC Television Service from its inception in 1936 until 1938. ...


An increasing number of full-length dramatised productions began to take place in the Alexandra Palace studios during 1937, with Journey's End in November 1937 being a notable full-scale adaptation of a play.[12] When television transmissions on Sundays began in March 1938, one Sunday per month would see the broadcast of a full-length Shakespeare play by actors from the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.[13] Productions also become more technically advanced, with the use of film inserts on telecine and more ambitious shooting, cutting and mixing, as opposed to televising the equivalent of a standard theatrical performance with unmoving cameras.[14][15] Outside broadcast cameras were used to show thirty Territorial Army troops with two howitzers in the Alexandra Palace grounds for added effect in The White Chateau (1938),[16] and boats on the Palace lake in scenes depicting the Zeebrugge Raid in a World War I play.[16] A Penguin edition of R.C. Sherriffs Journeys End Journeys End is the seventh and most famous play by R. C. Sherriff. ... Shakespeare redirects here. ... Birmingham Rep (formerly Birmingham Repertory Theatre) is a theatre in Birmingham, England. ... It has been suggested that multiple sections of 24p be merged into this article or section. ... Outside broadcasting is the production of television programmes (typically to cover sports events) from a mobile television studio. ... The Territorial Army (TA) is the principal reserve force of the British Army, the land armed forces of the United Kingdom, and composed mostly of part-time soldiers paid at the same rate, while engaged on military activities, as their Regular equivalents. ... 19th century 12 pounder (5 kg) mountain howitzer displayed by the National Park Service at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, USA A howitzer is a type of artillery piece that is characterized by a relatively short barrel and the use of comparatively small explosive charges to propel projectiles at trajectories with... Zeebrugge (French: Zeebruges) is a harbour-town at the coast of Belgium, a subdivision of Bruges, for which it is the modern port. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ...


The Times credited the ambition of BBC television drama in its review of a July 1938 modern dress version of Julius Caesar, while also criticising some of the production's technical failings. The Tragedy of Julius Cæsar, more commonly known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare written in around 1600. ...

"From the moment when Mr. Sebastian Shaw and Mr. Anthony Ireland were discovered sitting at a café table, discussing the political situation over a glass of beer, looking like two Fascist officers, yet speaking the lines assigned to Brutus and Cassius, the attention of the audience was riveted... The penumbrascope, a device for providing a background by means of shadows, which came into play for the first time in this production, was used so carelessly that its edges were often visible. The essence of stagecraft is illusion, which must not be shattered by such accidents. Caesar's ghost was also very unconvincing, nor did the handful of people listening to the funeral orations suggest an excited mob."[17] Sebastian Shaw (left) as the original version of Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Ancient marble bust of Marcus Brutus Marcus Junius Brutus (85 BC – 42 BC), or Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, was a Roman senator of the late Roman Republic. ... Caius Cassius Longinus featured on a denarius (42 BC). ... Gaius Julius Caesar [1] (Latin pronunciation ; English pronunciation ; July 12 or July 13, 100 BC or 102 BC – March 15, 44 BC), was a Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men in world history. ...

Greater praise was given by the same paper to Felicity's First Season, broadcast in September 1938 and, unusually for the time, written directly for television.

"The play relies on dialogue throughout, and there is a skilful use of film to suggest the journey to Scotland. While there are few characters and little change of scenery, enormous cocktail parties, balls, and jumble sales seemed to be in progress just out of sight. The result was something between a stage play and a film — that is to say, good television entertainment."[18] This article is about the country. ...

The overwhelming majority of BBC television drama produced during the 1930s consisted of adaptations of stage plays,[19] but there were exceptions. These included the first multi-episodic drama serial, Ann and Harold,[13] a five-part story about a married couple which began showing on July 12, 1938.[20] There was also Telecrime, a series of ten- and twenty-minute plays which presented various crimes, with the viewers given enough clues to be able to solve themselves using the evidence shown on screen.[16] It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... is the 193rd day of the year (194th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Telecrime was an early British television programme, which could be described as the first multi-episodic television drama series ever made, although transmission was occasional rather than regular. ...


As with almost all programmes of the era, the live television broadcasts meant that no record of the drama productions were kept outside of photographs, scripts and press reviews. BBC Programme Organiser Cecil Madden later claimed that they had experimented with telerecording a production of The Scarlet Pimpernel, but were ordered by film director Alexander Korda to destroy the print as he felt it infringed his film rights.[21][22] Telerecording (known as kinescoping in the USA) is the British name for a process pioneered during the 1940s for the storing of electronically-shot television programmes on film, which was used for the preservation, re-broadcasting and sale of television programmes before the use of commercial broadcast-quality videotape became... The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the French Revolution. ... Sir Alexander Korda (September 16, 1893 - January 23, 1956) was a film director and producer, a leading figure in the British film industry and the founder of London Films. ...


Despite the difficulties and challenges its production often presented, drama had become a central part of the BBC's television schedules; a BBC audience research survey conducted in 1937 found that 90% of those replying generally enjoyed the drama productions, a figure equalled only by outside broadcasts.[23] In Christmas week 1938, drama accounted for fourteen of the twenty-two hours of programming broadcast.[24] By the following year, drama programming had fifteen producers working on it, compared to nine for all other types of programmes combined.[7]


In 1939, the total audience for the BBC's programmes had grown to an estimated audience of 100,000 viewers, watching on 20,000 television sets.[23] However, BBC television broadcasting ceased on September 1, 1939 in anticipation of World War II.[25] The station remained off-air for the duration of the conflict. The British Government were afraid that the VHF transmission signals would act as a guiding beacon for German bombers targeting central London,[26] and the technicians and engineers of the service would in any case be needed for war efforts such as the radar programme.[25] September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Her Majestys Government, or when the Sovereign is male, His Majestys Government, abbreviated HMG or HM Government, is the formal title used by the Government of the United Kingdom. ... Very high frequency (VHF) is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. ... This long range radar antenna, known as ALTAIR, is used to detect and track space objects in conjunction with ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll. ...


The return of television and the 1950s

An episode of The Quatermass Experiment from 1953, a popular science fiction serial and one of the oldest surviving pieces of BBC television drama.
An episode of The Quatermass Experiment from 1953, a popular science fiction serial and one of the oldest surviving pieces of BBC television drama.

BBC Television resumed broadcasting on June 7, 1946,[27] and the service began in much the same way it had ceased in 1939, with many of the 1930s drama producers returning.[28] In 1949 there was a major development in drama when Val Gielgud was made the new head of department,[29] a position he had previously and successfully occupied at BBC Radio.[30] Since producing the first television play in 1930, Gielgud had worked in television again, serving on attachment to the service at Alexandra Palace in 1939 and directing a half-hour adaptation of his own short story Ending It, starring John Robinson and Joan Marion and broadcast on August 25, 1939, less than a week before the service was placed on hiatus.[31] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 59 KB)Screenshot the opening title sequence from the BBC television serial The Quatermass Experiment Source : Screenshot from a DVD copy of The Quatermass Experiment created and uploaded by User:Angmering. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 59 KB)Screenshot the opening title sequence from the BBC television serial The Quatermass Experiment Source : Screenshot from a DVD copy of The Quatermass Experiment created and uploaded by User:Angmering. ... The Quatermass Experiment is a British television science-fiction serial, transmitted by BBC Television in the summer of 1953. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Robinson (born November 11, 1908 in Liverpool, England, UK; died March 6, 1979 in London, England, UK) was a British actor. ... is the 237th day of the year (238th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Gielgud was an unpopular choice with many in the television service, with the channel's controller, Norman Collins, protesting that "Anything less than complete familiarity with all aspects of television production will mean... that the Head of Television Drama is an amateur."[32] Gielgud himself felt that television drama was too influenced by the cinema and ought to be closer to its radio equivalent, with television plays being more like illustrated radio broadcasts than independent entities in and of themselves.[33] Gielgud eventually returned to radio,[29] being replaced as Head of Drama by his assistant, the experienced producer Michael Barry, in 1952.[34] Norman Collins was a British radio and television executive, and one of the major figures behind the establishment of the Independent Television (ITV) network in the UK, which was the first organisation to break the BBC’s broadcasting monopoly when it began transmitting in 1955. ... Michael Barry (born May 15, 1910; died 1988) was a British television producer and executive, who was an important early influence on BBC television drama. ...


One important move that had occurred under Gielgud was the establishment in 1950 of the Script Department, and the hiring of the television service's first in-house staff drama writers, Nigel Kneale and Philip Mackie. Barry later expanded the Script Department and installed the experienced film producer Donald Wilson as its head in 1955. Television was now developing beyond simply adapting stories from other media into creating its own originally written productions. It was also becoming a high-profile medium, with national coverage and viewing figures now running into the millions, helped by the explosion of interest due to the live televising of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in the summer of 1953. 5 Nigel Kneale (born Thomas Nigel Kneale on April 18, 1922 in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, UK) is a Manx television and film scriptwriter, who has worked mostly in the UK. He is best known for his creation of the character of Professor Bernard Quatermass, who has appeared in three... Donald Wilson (born September 1, 1910, Dunblane, Scotland; died March 6, 2002, Gloucestershire, England) was a British television writer and producer, best known for his work on the BBCs adaptation of The Forsyte Saga in 1967. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ...


That same year, Barry invested the majority of his original scripting budget into a six-part science-fiction serial written by Kneale and directed by Rudolph Cartier, an Austrian-born director who was establishing a reputation as the television service's most inventive practitioner. Entitled The Quatermass Experiment, the serial (miniseries in American terminology) was a huge success and went a long way towards popularising the form, where one story is told over a short number of episodes, on British television: it is still one of the most popular drama formats in the medium to this day. Kneale and Cartier went on to be responsible for two sequel serials and many other highly successful and popular productions over the course of the decade, drawing many viewers to their programmes with their characteristic blend of horror and allegorical science fiction. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Katscher on April 17, 1904 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary; died June 8, 1994 in London, England, UK) was an Austrian television director, who worked almost exclusively in British television for the BBC. Cartier initially trained as an architect, but an enthusiasm for drama and the theatre... The Quatermass Experiment is a British television science-fiction serial, transmitted by BBC Television in the summer of 1953. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ...


It was they who were responsible for the 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the second performance of which drew the largest television audience since the coronation, some seven million viewers, and is one of the earliest surviving dramas in the archive. The telerecording process had by now been perfected for capturing live broadcasts for repeat and overseas sales, although it was not until the early 1960s that the majority of BBC dramas were prerecorded on the new technology of videotape. The BBC, unlike American broadcasters and their commercial British rivals, did not produce dramas entirely on film stock on any regular basis until the 1980s, preferring their traditional electronic studio methods, which gave much of the drama produced by the Corporation a somewhat unique – although some argue cheaper-looking – feel. Film would, however, be used to mount scenes unachievable in a live television environment or on location, which would be pre-shot and inserted into live productions at relevant points, later being inserted into videotaped shows at the editing stage. "These sequences bought time for the more elaborate costume changes or scene set-ups, but also served to 'open out' the action,"[1] as the British Film Institute explained on its Screenonline website in 2004. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903[1][2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ... Peter Cushing played Winston Smith while Donald Pleasence played Syme. ... Bottom view of VHS videotape cassette with magnetic tape exposed Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. ... Film stock is the term for photographic film on which films are recorded. ...


The BBC suffered during the second half of the 1950s from the rise of the ITV network, which had debuted in 1955 and rapidly begun to take away audience share from the Corporation as its coverage spread nationally. Despite popular hits such as the police drama series Dixon of Dock Green and soap opera The Grove Family, the BBC was seen as being more highbrow, lacking the popular common touch of the commercial network. One of the major figures in commercial television drama of the late 1950s and early 1960s was Canadian producer Sydney Newman, the Head of Drama at ABC Television responsible for such programmes as Armchair Theatre and The Avengers. In December 1962, keen to turn around the fortunes of their own drama department, the BBC invited Newman to replace the retiring Barry as Head of Drama, and he accepted, keen on the idea of transforming what he saw as the staid, docile image of BBC drama. 6 Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television series, which ran from 1955 to 1976, and later a radio series. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... The Grove Family was a British television soap opera, generally regarded as the first of its kind broadcast in the UK, made and transmitted by BBC Television from 1954 to 1957. ... Sydney Cecil Newman OC (April 1, 1917—October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, best remembered for the pioneering work he undertook in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. ... Associated British Corporation (otherwise known as ABC Television or ABC Weekend TV) was one of a number of commercial television companies set up in the 1950s by cinema chains in an attempt to safeguard their business by getting involved in television which was taking away their cinema audiences. ... For the album of the same name, see Armchair Theatre (Jeff Lynne album) Armchair Theatre was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 until 1968 in its original form, and was intermittently resurrected at various points during the 1970s. ... The Avengers is a British 1960s television series featuring secret agents in a fantasy 1960s Britain. ...


The 'golden age' of BBC drama

Even before Newman's arrival, some BBC producers were attempting to break the mould, with Elwyn Jones, Troy Kennedy Martin and Allan Prior's landmark police drama series Z-Cars shaking up the image of television police dramas and becoming an enormous popular success from 1962 onwards. Newman, however, restructured the entire department, dividing the unwieldy drama group into three separate divisions: series, for on-going continuing dramas with self-contained episodes; serials, for stories told over multi-episode runs, or programmes which were made up of a series of serials; and plays, for any kind of drama one-offs, an area Newman was especially keen on following the success of Armchair Theatre at ABC. Elwyn Jones (born 1923; died May 19, 1982) was a British television writer and producer, whose best-known work was perhaps the co-creation of the famous police drama series Z-Cars for BBC Television in 1962. ... Troy Kennedy Martin (born 1932; sometimes credited as Troy Kennedy-Martin) is a British film and television scripwriter. ... Allan Prior (born 1924 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne) is a British television script writer and novelist, with over 300 television scripts to his name since the 1950s. ... Z-Cars (sometimes written as Z Cars, and always pronounced zed, never zee) was a British television drama series centred around the work of regular beat police officers in the fictional town of Newtown, near Liverpool, in the north-west of England. ...

The Daleks in Doctor Who, a science-fiction series which started in 1963 and went on to become one of the most popular, successful and long-lasting BBC programmes in any genre.
The Daleks in Doctor Who, a science-fiction series which started in 1963 and went on to become one of the most popular, successful and long-lasting BBC programmes in any genre.

Newman followed BBC Managing Director of Television Sir Huw Wheldon's famous edict to "make the good popular and the popular good," once stating: "damn the upper classes! They don't even own televisions!" While he did personally create populist family-entertainment-based dramas such as Adam Adamant Lives! and the incredibly long-running science-fiction series Doctor Who, he also attempted to create drama that was socially relevant to those who were watching, initiating The Wednesday Play anthology strand to present contemporary dramas with a social background the resonance. Says Screenonline of this development, "It was from this artistic high of the 'golden age' of British TV drama (this 'agitational contemporaneity', as Newman coined it) that a new generation of TV playwrights emerged."[2] Image File history File links Daleksindoctorwho. ... Image File history File links Daleksindoctorwho. ... The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... Sir Huw Wheldon OBE MC (7 May 1916–March 14, 1986) was a BBC broadcaster and executive. ... Adam Adamant Lives! was a television series that ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC. The show was the BBCs attempt to emulate the success of ITVs The Avengers, with a comedy adventure theme that would take a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... The Wednesday Play was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on BBC ONE from 1964 to 1970. ...


The Wednesday Play proved to be a breeding ground for acclaimed and sometimes controversial writers such as Dennis Potter and directors such as Ken Loach, but sometimes Newman's desire to create biting, cutting drama could land the Corporation in trouble. This was particularly the case with 1965's The War Game by Peter Watkins, which depicted a fictional nuclear attack on the UK and the consequences of such, and was banned by the BBC under pressure from the government. It was eventually screened on television in 1985. Liber Amoris Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935—7 June 1994) was a controversial British dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. ... Ken Loach Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is an English television and film director, known for his naturalistic style and socialist themes. ... The War Game is a 1965 television film on nuclear war. ... Peter Watkins (born October 29, 1935) is an English film and (once) television director. ...


Newman's reign saw a large number of popular and critically acclaimed dramas go out on the BBC, with Doctor Who, Z-Cars, Doctor Finlay's Casebook and the epic The Forsyte Saga picking up viewers while the likes of The Wednesday Play and Theatre 625 presented challenging ideas to the audience. Newman left the staff of the BBC once his five-year contract expired in 1967, departing for an unsuccessful attempt to break into the film industry. He was replaced by Head of Serials Shaun Sutton, initially on an acting basis combined with his existing role, but permanently from 1969. 7 Dr. Finlay is the hero of a series of stories by Scottish author A. J. Cronin. ... The Forsyte Saga is the collective title of a series of novels by John Galsworthy. ... Theatre 625 was a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Shaun Alfred Graham Sutton OBE (born October 14, 1919 in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom; died May 14 2004 in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom) was a British television writer, director, producer and executive, who worked in the medium for nearly forty years from the 1950s to the 1990s. ...

Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes with Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, a 1968 series which was one of the first major BBC dramas to be made in colour.
Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes with Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, a 1968 series which was one of the first major BBC dramas to be made in colour.

Sutton became the BBC's longest-serving Head of Drama, serving as such until 1981 and presiding over the BBC's move from black and white into colour broadcasting. His era took in the whole of the 1970s, a time when the BBC enjoyed large viewing figures, positive audience reaction and generally high production values across a range of programmes, with drama enjoying a particularly well-received spell. The Wednesday Play transformed into the equally famous and long-running Play for Today in 1970; later in the decade the BBC began a run of producing every single Shakespeare play, a run which Sutton himself would later take over the producer's role on following his departure from the Head of Drama position in the early 1980s. Image File history File links DVD screen capture, uploaded to illustrate BBC television drama. ... Image File history File links DVD screen capture, uploaded to illustrate BBC television drama. ... Peter Cushing OBE Cushing (left) in the television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the winter of 1954 on BBC Television. ... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... Nigel Stock (actor) Nigel Stock was a veteran British actor of stage, screen, radio and TV, known as a character actor in particular. ... Dr. John H. Watson is a fictional character, the sidekick of Sherlock Holmes, the fictional 19th century detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930) is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. ... The Play for Today logo, seen here in the opening title sequence from 1976. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...


Popular dramas such as Doctor Who and Z-Cars continued into the new decade, and were joined by costume dramas such as The Pallisers, The Onedin Line and Poldark, carrying on from the successes of The Forsyte Saga, which had been set in the past and been a major success in the late 1960s. Family-audience based period dramas, often adaptations such as The Eagle of the Ninth (1977), were popular on Sunday afternoons, with the Classic Serial strand which ran there becoming something of an institution until the early 1990s. Another success between 1973 and 1977 was the popular Warship drama series, filmed with a documentary-like look for forty-five episodes over four seasons on a Royal Navy frigate. Along with many BBC dramas of the decade, Warship was also very successful in countries such as Ireland and Australia. Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. ... Photograph from Radio Times depicting Peter Gilmore as James Onedin and Jessica Benton as Elizabeth Frazer. ... Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, and a popular BBC television series of the 1970s based on the books. ... The Eagle of the Ninth is a historical adventure novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1954. ... Warship was an extremely popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). ... For the bird, see Frigatebird. ...


There were also failures, however. The epic Churchill's People, twenty-six fifty-minute episodes based around Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, was deemed unbroadcastable by Sutton after he had viewed the initial episodes, but so much time and money had been invested in huge pre-transmission publicity that the BBC had no choice but to show the plays, to critical derision and tiny viewing figures. Never again would a fifty-minute series be given a run as long as twenty-six episodes, for fear of being too committed to a project: runs of thirteen became the norm, although in later years even this began to be considered quite long. Plays such as Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle and Roy Minton's Scum were not broadcast at all due to fears over their content at the highest levels of the BBC, although despite this Potter continued to write landmark drama serials and one-offs for the Corporation throughout the rest of the decade and into the 1980s. Both Brimstone and Treacle and Scum were eventually transmitted several years later. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. ... Brimstone and Treacle is a 1970s play by Dennis Potter about a middle-aged middle-class couple living in a North London suburb who are unfortunate enough to have their beautiful undergraduate daughters life reduced to a severely handicapped existence by a hit-and-run driver. ... Scum is a film made in 1979 portraying the brutality of life inside a British borstal. ...

Pennies From Heaven, a highly acclaimed 1978 drama serial by famed television playwright Dennis Potter, who did much of his most famous work for the BBC.
Pennies From Heaven, a highly acclaimed 1978 drama serial by famed television playwright Dennis Potter, who did much of his most famous work for the BBC.

Whenever writers and media analysts criticise the current state of British and particularly BBC television drama, it is frequently the 1960s and 1970s period which they cite as being the most important and influential, with a vast variety of genres (science fiction, crime, historical, family based) and types of programme (series, serials, one-offs, anthologies) being produced. "What may justly be rated as the golden age of television drama reached its zenith,"[3] as The Guardian described it in their 2004 obituary of Sutton. Or in the words of the Royal Television Society, "...an era that championed new writers, young directors and challenging drama. The amazing diversity... helped to make it the golden age of broadcasting."[4] Image File history File links Penniesfromheaven. ... Image File history File links Penniesfromheaven. ... The opening title sequence to the first episode of Pennies from Heaven. ... Liber Amoris Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935—7 June 1994) was a controversial British dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... The Royal Television Society is a British-based society for the discussion, analysis and preservation of television in all its forms, past, present and future. ...


However, despite this high esteem, the television drama of the era does not fully exist in the archives. Most of the live output up until the 1950s was not recorded at all, and a large amount of material from the 1960s and early 1970s was wiped once it had been repeated the number of times contractually allowed, or when it was of no further use for overseas sales. The transfer from black and white to colour broadcasting led to an increase in the destruction of older material which was now regarded as redundant, although by 1978 the BBC had realised the historical value of its archive and ceased the wiping process. However, by this stage many series were completely missing – United!, a football-based soap opera which ran from 1965 to 1967 has no episodes existing at all. Others have large gaps – Doctor Who, for example, has 108 missing episodes. Live television refers to television broadcasts of events or performances on a delay of between zero and fifteen seconds, rather than from video recordings or film. ... Wiping or junking is an economic move by radio and television companies in which old audiotapes, videotapes and telerecordings are wiped (deleted) and reused or destroyed. ... United! is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and screened twice-weekly on BBC1. ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ...


Changing attitudes in the 1980s and beyond

Following Sutton's departure from the Head of Drama role in 1981 and his return to front-line producing duties in Shakespeare plays, his place as Head of Drama was taken by Graeme MacDonald. MacDonald had been Head of Serials and later Head of Series & Serials under Sutton, with the two departments having been merged in 1980, remaining so for most of the decade before separating again at the end of it. MacDonald maintained the status quo, and was only Head of Drama for a short time before he was promoted again to run a channel as Controller of BBC Two. He was succeeded in turn by his own Head of Series & Serials, Jonathan Powell. Graeme MacDonald (sometimes credited as Graeme McDonald) was a British television producer and executive. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Jonathan Powell (born 1947) is a British television producer and executive. ...

Boys from the Blackstuff, writer Alan Bleasdale's first major success, from 1982.
Boys from the Blackstuff, writer Alan Bleasdale's first major success, from 1982.

Powell had been a producer of high-quality all-film drama serials such as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) and its sequel Smiley's People (1982), and he very much favoured this form of short-run, self-contained filmed serial over longer-running videotaped drama series. It was under his aegis, therefore, that the BBC produced some of its highest-quality examples of this type of drama, of particular note being 1985's Edge of Darkness by Troy Kennedy Martin, and the following year's Dennis Potter piece The Singing Detective, both regarded as seminal BBC drama productions. "A gripping, innovative six-part drama which fully deserves its cult status and many awards,"[5] was the British Film Institute's verdict on Edge of Darkness in 2000. Image File history File links Boysfromtheblackstuff. ... Image File history File links Boysfromtheblackstuff. ... Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama serial of five episodes, originally transmitted from October 10 to November 7, 1982 on BBC TWO. The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, and was a sequel to a television play called The Black Stuff, which he had originally... Alan Bleasdale (born March 23, 1946 in Liverpool, England, UK) is a British television dramatist, best known for several powerful social drama serials based around the lives of ordinary people. ... Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a spy novel by John le Carré, first published in 1974. ... Smileys People is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1979, by Random House (ISBN 0394508432). ... Bob Peck as Yorkshire police officer Ronald Craven, investigating what appears to be the accidental killing of his daughter. ... The Singing Detective The Singing Detective was a 1986 BBC television miniseries, written by Dennis Potter and starring Michael Gambon. ...


Powell also oversaw the rise of more populist continuing drama series, however, encouraged by the ratings-chasing strategy of the then Controller of BBC One, his friend Michael Grade. It was during Powell's tenure that the BBC launched the twice-weekly soap opera EastEnders (1985–present) and the medical drama Casualty (1986–present), both of which remain linchpins of the BBC One schedule to this day and the highest-rated drama productions on BBC television. Indeed, EastEnders achieved phenomenal success in its early years, its Christmas Day 1986 episode earning a massive 30.15 million viewers, the highest British television audience of the 1980s.[6]Aside from these continuing dramas, based in one major location and shot entirely on videotape and thus comparatively cheap to make, longer runs of drama series became rare, with short series of six or eight episodes becoming the norm. BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC, and the first in the United Kingdom. ... Michael Ian Grade CBE (born March 8, 1943) is a British businessman and a distinguished figure in the field of broadcasting. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[4] and continuing to date. ... Casualty is a long-running BBC television drama serial, first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted on BBC One. ...


The single play, in its original studio-based form, also began to disappear from the schedules, with the final series of Play for Today airing in 1984, and the last single drama recorded at Television Centre being Henry IV, Part 1 in 1995 [35]. The BBC was envious of the success of its rival Channel 4's newly formed film arm, which had seen made-for-television one-offs such as Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette gain cinematic releases to considerable success. New strands such as Screen One and Screen Two concentrated on short runs of all-film, cinematic-style one-off dramas, with the most successful of these being Anthony Minghella's Truly, Madly, Deeply (Screen One, 1990) which became a successful film released to cinemas. The Plays department eventually disappeared altogether, being replaced latterly with a 'Head of Film & Single Drama' position with autonomous powers for investing in feature film production, co-commissioning television one-offs with the Head of Drama. This interest in film production is perhaps best demonstrated by the fact that both of Powell's successors as Head of Drama, Mark Shivas (1988–93) and Charles Denton (1993–96), went on to work in the film industry after leaving the position. BBC Television Centre BBC Television Centre (sometimes abbreviated TVC or TC) in London is home to the vast majority of BBC television output and, since 1998, almost all of the corporations national TV and radio news output by BBC News. ... Title page of the first quarto (1598) The History of Henrie the Fourth, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare. ... Channel 4 is a public-service British television station, broadcast to all areas of the United Kingdom (and also the Republic of Ireland), which began transmissions in 1982. ... FilmFour Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel 4. ... Stephen Frears in Sweden, 1989 promoting his movie Dangerous Liaisons. ... My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 film directed by Stephen Frears. ... Anthony Minghella (born January 6, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning British film director, playwright and screenwriter. ... Truly, Madly, Deeply is a British romance film, made in 1990 for the BBCs Screen One series. ... Mark Shivas is a British television producer and executive. ... Charles Denton is a British film and television producer and executive. ...

Bob Peck as Ronald Craven in the 1985 eco-thriller Edge of Darkness, by Troy Kennedy Martin. The serial was so successful it was repeated on BBC One mere weeks after its initial BBC Two showing.
Bob Peck as Ronald Craven in the 1985 eco-thriller Edge of Darkness, by Troy Kennedy Martin. The serial was so successful it was repeated on BBC One mere weeks after its initial BBC Two showing.

Another major change to BBC production methods in all areas, but particularly affecting drama, occurred in 1990 with the passing of the new Broadcasting Act, which amongst other things obliged the BBC to commission 25% of its output from independent production companies. Many BBC drama productions were subsequently outsourced to and commissioned from independent companies, although the BBC's in-house production arm continued to contribute heavily, with the separate Drama Series and Serials departments remaining intact. Production arms such as costumes, make-up and special effects were all closed by the early 21st century, however, with these services now being bought in from outside even for in-house programmes. Image File history File links Eod02. ... Image File history File links Eod02. ... Bob Peck as Ronald Craven, the role that brought him widespread recognition, in Edge of Darkness. ... Bob Peck as Yorkshire police officer Ronald Craven, investigating what appears to be the accidental killing of his daughter. ... Troy Kennedy Martin (born 1932; sometimes credited as Troy Kennedy-Martin) is a British film and television scripwriter. ... BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC, and the first in the United Kingdom. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Broadcasting Act 1990 is a law of the British parliament, often regarded by both its supporters and its critics as a quintessential example of Thatcherism. ...


Jonathan Powell's attempt to repeat the success of EastEnders in 1992, when he had become Controller of BBC One, led to one of the BBC's most notorious and costly failures. Eldorado was set in the British expatriate community in Spain, created by the same team of Julia Smith and Tony Holland who had come up with EastEnders. The costly soap opera, hugely maligned by critics and the victim of a viewer backlash against the massive advertising campaign the BBC had undertaken to promote it, was scrapped by Powell's successor Alan Yentob after less than a year's run, under pressure from the Director-General of the BBC John Birt. Eldorado was an ill-fated British soap opera that aired for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Julia Smith (26 May 1927 – 19 June 1997) was an English television director and producer. ... Tony Holland (born in London, England) is a television writer. ... Alan Yentob (born March 11, 1947) is a British television executive. ... The Director-General is chief executive and editor-in-chief of the BBC. The position is appointed by Board of Governors of the BBC. Sir John Reith (1927-1938) Sir Frederick Ogilvie (1938-1942) Sir Cecil Graves and Robert W. Foot (joint Director-Generals, 1942-1943) Robert W. Foot (1942... John Birt, Baron Birt (born 10 December 1944), served as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1992 to 2000, having previously been deputy director-general since 1987. ...


The 1990s saw a rise in the popularity of costume drama adaptations of literary classics, mostly adapted by the acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies. One of the most successful of these was a 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. Contemporary social drama, a BBC signature style since the 1960s, remained in the form of landmark productions such as Our Friends in the North (1996), but it was notable that this was transmitted on the more niche BBC Two channel rather than the mainstream BBC One as might well have been the case in previous decades. Andrew Wynford Davies (born September 20, 1936 in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales) is a British screenwriter. ... 1873 engraving of Jane Austen, based on a portrait drawn by her sister Cassandra. ... Pride and Prejudice is a 1995 British television drama serial, adapted from Jane Austens novel of the same name, originally published in 1813. ... Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor. ... Jennifer Ehle (born December 29, 1969) is a stage and screen actress best known for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice. ... The opening titles sequence of Our Friends in the North. ...


There was criticism of the department's commissioning process in some quarters, which was seen as being overly intricate and bureaucratic. As The Independent described: "Lengthy agonising over whether the BBC1 saga Seaforth would be given a second series (eventually, it wasn't) further encouraged the view that the BBC's management floor is full of desks where the buck does not so much stop as hang around for a few months." ^  Further problems emerged for the drama department after the departure of Charles Denton as its Head in May 1996. He was briefly replaced on a temporary basis by Ruth Caleb, the Head of Drama at BBC Wales. However, Caleb had no interest in taking the job on a permanent basis, and after a six-month attachment left the post at the end of the year. With no suitable candidate to take the job on a full-time basis having been found, Director of Television Alan Yentob was forced to oversee the department, again on a temporary basis. The Independent is a British compact newspaper published by Tony OReillys Independent News & Media. ... BBC Wales (Welsh: ) is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. ... Alan Yentob (born March 11, 1947) is a British television executive. ...

The 1996 serial Our Friends in the North, which took up the majority of BBC Two's drama budget for the entire year, was one of the few major critical successes of the 1990s, a time of turbulence within BBC drama.
The 1996 serial Our Friends in the North, which took up the majority of BBC Two's drama budget for the entire year, was one of the few major critical successes of the 1990s, a time of turbulence within BBC drama.

There was much criticism in the press over the inability of the BBC to find a full-time Head of Drama, with even the BBC Chairman Sir Christopher Bland criticising the amount of time it was taking to find a new Head of Department, stating publicly that: "There aren't a lot of people who are pre-eminently qualified and able to do the biggest job in drama. That's the difficulty." ^ . Experienced BBC Drama staff such as Michael Wearing (Head of Serials) were leaving the department, which was seen to be in trouble after the failure of hugely expensive productions such as the historical drama Rhodes in 1996. "Many in the drama business, and not just BBC insiders, are worried about the hand-over of creative say to the controllers, low morale and the lack of a head," ^  The Guardian reported in December 1996. Finally in June 1997 Colin Adams was appointed as the new Head of Drama. Adams was a surprising choice, his previous role at the Corporation having been as Head of Northern Broadcasting. However, he was essentially an administrator and seen by Drama staff as a temporary appointment. Image File history File links Ourfriends. ... Image File history File links Ourfriends. ... The opening titles sequence of Our Friends in the North. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Sir Francis Christopher Buchan Bland (born circa 1939), known as Christopher Bland is a British businessman and politician. ... Michael Wearing is a British television producer, who has spent much of his career working on various drama productions for the BBC. He is best known as the producer of the highly-acclaimed serials Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) and Edge of Darkness (1985), which created for him a reputation... Colin Adams is a British television executive. ...


In 1997 the BBC approached Mal Young, best known for producing Liverpool-set Channel 4 soap Brookside, to head up the Drama Series section of the in-house Drama Department, which had become something of a poisoned chalice with many Controllers departing in quick succession. As Controller of Continuing Drama Series, Young oversaw the move to volume production and also commissioned a new medical Series, Holby City. By the time Young left the BBC to join 19 Television Limited as head of Drama in December 2004, the BBC had increased Series production to nearly 300 hours per annum, including EastEnders at four times a week, Holby City x 52 episodes, Casualty x 48 episodes. Volume Series production was a controversial move because it took a large part of the Drama budget away from original production and contributed to accusations of "dumbing down" its programming. "The decision to show EastEnders four nights a week, followed by Holby City has left the corporation open to accusations that the BBC1 schedule has been cleared for a diet of 'precinct pulp',"[7] reported The Guardian in 2003. Mal Young (born in Liverpool, England, on January 26, 1957) is a British television producer and executive . ... Location within England Coordinates: , Sovereign state United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool City Centre Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government  - Type Metropolitan borough, City  - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area  - Borough & City 43. ... Channel 4 is a public-service British television station, broadcast to all areas of the United Kingdom (and also the Republic of Ireland), which began transmissions in 1982. ... For other uses, see Brookside (disambiguation). ... Holby City is a medical drama television serial, formerly a drama series, broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. ... 19 Entertainment, based in the United Kingdom, is a leading creator and producer of entertainment properties, including American Idol in the United States, Pop Idol in the United Kingdom, as well as versions of the Idol series in more than seventy countries around the world and US Television show So... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[4] and continuing to date. ...


The modern era

As of September 2006, the current Commissioner of Drama at the BBC is Julie Gardner. She reports directly to Jane Tranter, who held the role from 2000–06 and was then promoted to the newly-established Controller, BBC Fiction, position. Working with Gardner are: Head of Series & Serials Kate Harwood and Controller of Continuing (i.e. year-round) Drama Series John Yorke (who also acts as Head of Drama for the BBC's in-house production arm), with David Thompson of Film & Single Drama overseeing one-offs. Sarah Brandist and Polly Hill are the commissioning editors for independently-produced drama programming. Gardner is also Head of Drama for BBC Wales, with Patrick Spence Head of Drama for BBC Northern Ireland and Anne Mensah Head of Drama for BBC Scotland. She was born on September 3, 1981 in Richmond, Virginia. ... Jane Tranter (born March 17, 1963 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK) is a British television drama executive, who as of August 2004 is currently the Head of Drama at BBC Television. ... Kate Harwood on the set of EastEnders Kate Harwood is a British television producer. ... John Yorke: Executive Producer of EastEnders, December 1999 - May 2002 John Yorke is currently the Controller of Continuing Drama Series and Head of Independent Drama for the BBC. He joined the BBC in the late 1980s, working initially in radio as a studio manager and then as a producer on... BBC Wales (Welsh: ) is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. ... BBC Northern Ireland Logo. ... BBC Scotland (BBC Alba in Gaelic) is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ...


Tranter's era from 2000–06 saw a return to longer-run episode series, with programmes such as Spooks being given longer second runs following successful debut seasons. Recent years have also seen a huge increase in continuing drama output, with EastEnders gaining a fourth weekly episode to add to the third added during the mid-1990s, and Casualty and its spin-off series Holby City (1999–present) turning from regular seasonal shows to year-round soap opera-style productions. These moves have been criticised in some quarters for filling the market with insubstantial populist dramas at the expense of 'quality' prestige pieces, although there have been several notable drama serial successes, such as Paul Abbott's State of Play (2003) and the historical drama Charles II: The Power and The Passion (BBC Northern Ireland - 2004). For the Three Stooges film, see Spooks!. Spooks is a British television drama series, produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One. ... Holby City is a medical drama television serial, formerly a drama series, broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. ... now. ... State of Play is a British television miniseries first broadcast in 2003. ... BBC Northern Ireland Logo. ...

Spy drama Spooks, produced independently for the BBC by Kudus Film & Television, was a critical and popular success on its 2002 debut.
Spy drama Spooks, produced independently for the BBC by Kudus Film & Television, was a critical and popular success on its 2002 debut.

Another move of recent years has been the regionalisation of BBC drama, in response to criticisms that the majority of programmes were made and set in and around London and the surrounding areas, with the BBC's central drama department currently being based at Television Centre in West London. As far back at 1962, the makers of Z-Cars had deliberately set their programme near Liverpool in the North of England to break away from the perceived London bias (although, ironically, it was shot in the BBC's London studios), and in 1976 an English Regions Drama Department had been established at BBC Birmingham with a remit for making 'regional drama', gaining a major success with Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff in 1982. In the modern era, however, the separate BBC branches in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have their own drama departments with Heads of Drama who have autonomous commissioning powers, both for in-house production and co-production with or commissioning from independents. Image File history File links DVD screen capture, uploaded to illustrate BBC television drama. ... Image File history File links DVD screen capture, uploaded to illustrate BBC television drama. ... For the Three Stooges film, see Spooks!. Spooks is a British television drama series, produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One. ... Kudos Film & Television is a British television production company, which has produced drama series for most of the major television networks in the UK. Its best-known series are the spy drama Spooks (known as MI5 in the United States) and con-artist thriller series Hustle for BBC One and... Location within England Coordinates: , Sovereign state United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool City Centre Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government  - Type Metropolitan borough, City  - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area  - Borough & City 43. ... The north, the midlands and the south Northern England, The North or North of England is a rather ill-defined term, with no universally accepted definition. ... The Mailbox, current home to BBC Birmingham BBC Birmingham is one of the oldest regional arms of the BBC. It was the first region outside of London to start brodcasting both the corporations radio (in 1922) and television (in 1948) transmissions from the Sutton Coldfield television transmitter. ... Alan Bleasdale (born March 23, 1946 in Liverpool, England, UK) is a British television dramatist, best known for several powerful social drama serials based around the lives of ordinary people. ... Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama serial of five episodes, originally transmitted from October 10 to November 7, 1982 on BBC TWO. The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, and was a sequel to a television play called The Black Stuff, which he had originally... This article is about the country. ... This article is about the country. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ...


Although some of these shows are purely for regional consumption, such as BBC Scotland's River City and BBC Wales' Belonging, many programmes networked nationally on BBC One and Two are made in 'the nations', with perhaps the highest profile being the current BBC Wales revival of Doctor Who. The larger English regions also produce drama productions of their own, with BBC Birmingham providing the detective drama Dalziel and Pascoe, daytime soap opera Doctors and anthology series The Afternoon Play for national consumption, for example. BBC Scotland (BBC Alba in Gaelic) is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Fiction River City (television series) is a soap opera produced by BBC Scotland River City is a fictional city set in Iowa in The Music Man. ... Belonging is a Welsh television drama series, produced by BBC Wales and screened on the BBC One network during a national opt-out section from the UK feed. ... BBC Wales (Welsh: ) is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (usually known as Andy) and Detective Sergeant (later Detective Inspector) Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill that became a BBC television series, also named Dalziel and Pascoe. ...


From 1999 until 2006, the BBC also had a new in-house drama division, BBC Fictionlab, which specialised in producing dramas for the corporation's digital stations, particularly BBC Four. Notable Fictionlab productions for BBC Four included The Alan Clark Diaries (2003), a live re-make of The Quatermass Experiment (2005) and the biopic Kenneth Tynan - In Praise of Hardcore (2005). Several of these have later seen analogue transmission on BBC Two. However, in January 2006 the BBC announced that Fictionlab was to be dispanded, as the digital channels now well established and no longer needed a specialised drama production unit. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 - 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative politician, historian and diarist. ... The Quatermass Experiment is a British television science-fiction serial, transmitted by BBC Television in the summer of 1953. ... Kenneth Peacock Tynan (April 2, 1927 - July 26, 1980), was an influential and often controversial British theatre critic and writer. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...


Children's drama

The BBC has established a strong reputation in the field of children's drama, although children's dramas are almost universally commissioned and / or produced by the BBC's Children's Department rather than the Drama Department itself. There are however occasional crossovers - Doctor Who, for example, would commonly be regarded as a children's or family programme, but has always been produced by the main Drama Department. CBBC Logo CBBC - short for Childrens BBC - is the brand-name for the BBCs childrens television programmes aimed at children aged between 6 and 12 years old. ...


Throughout much of the department's history, the epmhasis has been on continuing productions of short-run drama serials, including adaptations of classic children's literature such as Little Lord Fauntleroy, as well as made-for-television prductions. Science-fiction has been a popular theme, from Stranger from Space (1951–52) through to the likes of Dark Season (1991) and Century Falls (1993). Since the middle of the 1980s, children's dramas - with the exception of the Sunday evening 'classics' slot - have almost always been screened in the weekday BBC One 3pm-5.30pm Children's BBC (CBBC) strand. Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental childrens novel by American (English-born) author Frances Hodgson Burnett, serialized in St. ... Dark Season title screen. ... Century Falls is a British science-fiction television serial for children broadcast in six twenty-five minute episodes on BBC One in early 1993. ... BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC, and the first in the United Kingdom. ...


Longer continuing drama series became common from the late 1970s, spearheaded by the 1978 launch of the popular school-set drama series Grange Hill. Created by Liverpudlian dramatist Phil Redmond, the intention of the programme was to present issues relevant to children in a realistic manner, showing characters in a modern Comprehensive school and concentrating on the issues facing children in such schools. The series was a huge success, and in 1989 a similar programme, Byker Grove, set in a youth club, was launched by the BBC's North-Eastern arm and screened on Children's BBC. Grange Hill is a British childrens television drama series which is shown on BBC1. ... Location within England Coordinates: , Sovereign state United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool City Centre Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government  - Type Metropolitan borough, City  - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area  - Borough & City 43. ... Phil Redmond (born 1949 in Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom) is a British television producer and scriptwriter. ... A Comprehensive school is a type of school providing secondary level education in England or Wales. ... Byker Grove was a British childrens television series shown originally on BBC One and now on the CBBC Channel, and was created by Adele Rose. ... A youth club is where teenagers can meet and enjoy popular activities such as football, tennis or games console. ...


From the 1990s onwards, in common with BBC programming in other genres, children's drama has often been commissioned from independent producers as well as being made in-house. Grange Hill switched to independent production after twenty-five years as an in-house programme in 2003, when production was taken over by Mersey Television, the company established by the programme's creator Phil Redmond in the early 1980s. Co-productions with foreign broadcasters are also common, with BBC Scotland's successful 2004 fantasy drama Shoebox Zoo being made in collaboration with the Canadian company Blueprint Entertainment.[8] Mersey Television is a British independent television production company, founded by renowned producer and writer Phil Redmond in the early 1980s. ... BBC Scotland (BBC Alba in Gaelic) is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Shoebox Zoo is a childrens fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. ...


As of 2005, the BBC continues to broadcast children's drama, usually in the weekday afternoon CBBC slot, but also occasional Sunday early evening / late afternoon prestige productions such as the adaptation of Kidnapped (April 2005). As of July 2005, the Head of Children's Drama is Jon East.


See also

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Elen, Richard G. TV Technology 2. Television on the Air. Screenonline. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
  2. ^ "First Television Play", The Times, 1930-07-15, p. 14. 
  3. ^ "Broadcasting — First Television Play", The Times, 1930-07-14, p. 7. 
  4. ^ a b c d "The First Play by Television — BBC and Baird Experiment", The Times, 1930-07-15, p. 12. 
  5. ^ Briggs, Asa (1995). History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom — Volume Two: The Golden Age of Wireless, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-212930-9. 
  6. ^ a b Sound On, Vision On — The contest. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
  7. ^ a b c d Jacobs, p. 37.
  8. ^ Norman, p. 116.
  9. ^ Norman, p. 114.
  10. ^ a b Sutton, Shaun. "Dramatis Personae", The Times, 1972-11-02, p. VI. 
  11. ^ Jacobs, p. 34.
  12. ^ Cooke, p. 11.
  13. ^ a b Norman, p. 117.
  14. ^ Cooke, p. 12.
  15. ^ Jacobs, pp. 52–53
  16. ^ a b c Vahimagi, Tise (1994). British Television: An Illustrated Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press and British Film Institute. ISBN 0-19-818336-4. 
  17. ^ "Televised Drama — "Julius Caesar" in Modern Dress", The Times, 1938-08-01, p. 6. 
  18. ^ "Televised Drama — Felicity's First Season", The Times, 1938-09-19, p. 19. 
  19. ^ Jacobs, p. 36.
  20. ^ Sale, Jonathan. "Week in Week Out", The Independent, 1996-07-12, p. 20. 
  21. ^ Norman, p. 134.
  22. ^ Jacobs, p. 12.
  23. ^ a b Norman, p. 153.
  24. ^ Cooke, p. 8.
  25. ^ a b Norman, pp. 154–155.
  26. ^ Sound On Vision On — Closedown. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
  27. ^ Sound On Vision On — Television returns. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
  28. ^ Jacobs, p. 78.
  29. ^ a b "Television Drama", The Times, 1949-10-24, p. 8. 
  30. ^ "Obituary: Mr Val Gielgud — Pioneer of British Radio Drama", The Times, 1981-12-01, p. 12. 
  31. ^ Gielgud, Val (1948). The Right Way to Radio Playwriting. Kingswood: Right Way Books. 
  32. ^ Briggs, Asa (1978). History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom — Volume Four: Sound and Vision, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Pressid=ISBN 0-19-212967-8. 
  33. ^ Jacobs, pp. 90–94.
  34. ^ Wake, Oliver. Barry, Michael (1910–1988). Screenonline. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
  35. ^ BBC Programme Catalogue Performance: Henry IV Part 1 (Rec:1995-09-22 Tx:1995-10-28)

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References

Books:

  • Note 5: Jacobs, Jason (2000). The Intimate Screen: Early British Television Drama (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-874233-9. Chapter 4: "Lost Not Cosy: Expanding the Screen of Television Drama, 1951–55" (pages 109–155).
  • Note 6: Newman's tenure and much of the drama of the 1960s to the 1990s is detailed in: Caughie, John (2000). Television Drama: Realism, Modernism, and British Culture (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-874218-5.
  • Note 7: Sutton writes about his own period in charge of the department in: Sutton, Shaun (1982). The Largest Theatre in the World: Thirty Years of Television Drama (1st ed.). London: BBC Books. ISBN 0-563-20011-1.

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  1. ^  Mark Lawson, Making a crisis out of the drama, "The Independent", Wednesday 3 January 1996, page 17.
  2. ^  Andrew Culf, Media Correspondent, In midst of a crisis, BBC fails to head up the drama, "The Guardian", Saturday 15 March 1997, page 6.
  3. ^  Richard Brooks, Who's lost the plot? Four senior executives have left the BBC drama department in the past month. So why doesn't anyone want to run this prestigious show? Richard Brooks asks if there is a crisis in the making, "The Guardian" features page, Monday 23 December 1996, page 9.

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  4. ^  Fox, Sir Paul (June 2004). Royal Television Society obituary of Shaun Sutton. Retrieved on August 20, 2005.
  5. ^  Taylor, Veronica (2000). British Film Institute TV 100 entry on Edge of Darkness. Retrieved on August 20, 2005.
  6. ^  Uncredited (July 2005). British Film Institute Top Television Audiences of the 1980s article. Retrieved on August 20, 2005.
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  8. ^  Hollett, Georgie (September 6, 2004), BBC Resources press release about Shoebox Zoo. Retrieved September 7, 2005.
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Bibliography

  • Georgina Born (2004) Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC, Secker and Warburg, ISBN 0-436-20562-9, An anthropological study of the internal workings of several BBC departments (mainly) in the mid-1990s, including the Drama department.

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