Television policy : the MacTaggart lectures / edited by Bob Franklin ; foreword by John Willis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Bob, Author.

Contributor:

Franklin, Bob, 1949- editor.

Willis, John, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting policy.

Television broadcasting--Great Britain.

Television broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Television Policy offers a unique and authoritative account of the major developments in television programming and policy since 1976 by collecting in a single volume the MacTaggart lectures delivered at the Edinburgh International Television Festival across the last quarter of a century. The MacTaggart lecturers include the most celebrated and distinguished programme makers, producers, performers, playwrights, policymakers and senior media executives across all sectors of broadcasting. They include Greg Dyke, John Humphrys, John McGrath, Marcel Orphuls, Norman Lear, Jeremy Isaacs, John Mortimer, Peter Jay, Ted Turner, Jonathan Miller, Denis Foreman, John Schlesinger, Troy Kennedy-Martin, Philip Whitehead, Christine Ockrent, Rupert Murdoch, Verity Lambert, David Elstein, Michael Grade, Dennis Potter, Janet Street Porter, John Birt, Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran, Peter Bazalgette, Richard Eyre, David Liddiment and Mark Thompson. With a Foreword by John Willis and an introductory essay exploring the history of the MacTaggart lectures and a review of the shifting themes and concerns of the lectures, the book provides a forum for the significant debates which have helped to shape both television content and policy across twenty five years of considerable and unprecedented change in broadcasting. Topics covered include the future of public service programming; the relationship of government to broadcasters; the impact of ownership on the freedom of broadcasters; and debates about whether and how television should be regulated.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

The James MacTaggart Lectures

TV Drama: The Case against Naturalism

Naturalism and Television

Taboos in Television

Signposting Television in the 1980s: The Fourth Television Channel

Television Drama, Censorship and the Truth

The Day after Tomorrow: The Future of Electronic Publishing

The Primacy of Programmes in the Future of Broadcasting

Reflections on Working in Film and Television

‘Opening up the Fourth Front’: Micro Drama and the Rejection of Naturalism

Power and Pluralism in Broadcasting

Ethics, Broadcasting and Change: The French Experience

Freedom in Broadcasting

Deregulation and Quality Television

The Future of Television: Market Forces and Social Values

The Future of the BBC

Occupying Powers

A Culture of Dependency: Power, Politics and Broadcasters

Talent versus Television

A Glorious Future: Quality Broadcasting in the Digital Age

Rewarding Creative Talent: The Struggle of the Independents

Television versus the People

Public-Interest Broadcasting: A New Approach

A Time for Change

The Soul of British Television

Television’s Creative Deficit

Freedom of Choice: Public-Service Broadcasting and the BBC

First Do No Harm

Appendix A Edinburgh International Television Festival, 29 August–2 September 1977: Programme

Appendix B

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-6826-8

0-7486-7111-0

0-7486-8058-6

0-7486-7959-6

OCLC:

1306540734