Veteran television writer Robert Banks Stewart has claimed that older writers are neglected by today's television industry,
Banks Stewart - who created the popular detective dramas Bergerac and Shoestring - spoke to Digital Spy about his decision to adapt his TV pitch The Hurricane's Tail into his first novel.
"Back when I was still firing in possible new series, I began to feel that the attitude was, 'He's nearly 70, this guy - forget it' - it was a bit deflating when a Head of Drama doesn't write back to you, but gets his secretary to do it," said the 81-year-old.
"That was my experience then and there's a lot of writers I know - especially around my age - who have been finding it very hard to get any ideas over."
Banks Stewart - who wrote for Doctor Who, The Sweeney and The Avengers as well - also criticised "top...
Banks Stewart - who created the popular detective dramas Bergerac and Shoestring - spoke to Digital Spy about his decision to adapt his TV pitch The Hurricane's Tail into his first novel.
"Back when I was still firing in possible new series, I began to feel that the attitude was, 'He's nearly 70, this guy - forget it' - it was a bit deflating when a Head of Drama doesn't write back to you, but gets his secretary to do it," said the 81-year-old.
"That was my experience then and there's a lot of writers I know - especially around my age - who have been finding it very hard to get any ideas over."
Banks Stewart - who wrote for Doctor Who, The Sweeney and The Avengers as well - also criticised "top...
- 4/17/2013
- Digital Spy
An excellent way to get attention in the British press? Say anything at all about Doctor Who... and if it’s sure to piss off fans, all the better. From Mail Online: Waking the Dead actor Trevor Eve has claimed his own programme should have been axed three years ago and said hit shows like Doctor Who are too expensive. In a bizarre rant to promote his new ITV drama Kidnap and Ransom, the former Shoestring star said intellectually stimulating programming suffers due to the commercial success of the BBC's most high-profile shows.
- 1/5/2011
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Alice Eve is set to play Emma Frost in 20th Century Fox's X-Men: First Class.
The 28-year-old Brit - daughter of Shoestring detective series star Trevor Eve - starred in romantic comedy She's Out of My League and was also in Sex and the City 2.
Eve (pictured below) had been in line to appear as love interest Peggy Carter in Marvel's Captain America film but lost out to Hayley Atwell.
Deadline and HeatVision are both reporting that the actress is in negotiations for the X-Men role.
The film has been officially described as a prequel though, interestingly, HeatVision calls it a relaunch, suggesting the story may depart from the continuity of the existing X-Men films.
Emma Frost, played by 24-year-old Tahyna Tozzi in a cameo role in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, has telepathic powers and, in the early comics, was a villain who took the name White Queen; as a...
The 28-year-old Brit - daughter of Shoestring detective series star Trevor Eve - starred in romantic comedy She's Out of My League and was also in Sex and the City 2.
Eve (pictured below) had been in line to appear as love interest Peggy Carter in Marvel's Captain America film but lost out to Hayley Atwell.
Deadline and HeatVision are both reporting that the actress is in negotiations for the X-Men role.
The film has been officially described as a prequel though, interestingly, HeatVision calls it a relaunch, suggesting the story may depart from the continuity of the existing X-Men films.
Emma Frost, played by 24-year-old Tahyna Tozzi in a cameo role in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, has telepathic powers and, in the early comics, was a villain who took the name White Queen; as a...
- 6/28/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
My friend Elizabeth Chater, who has died aged 83, was known to the acting world by the stage name Elizabeth Havelock. She would light up any screen – for instance, as the fortune teller in an early episode of the 1970s TV detective series Shoestring. Lighting up her environment was a characteristic of Elizabeth's, I realised, when we met in 1999 at a poetry reading. She was elegant and warm, but with a toughness that had something of the stiletto to it.
She was born Elizabeth Devonshire Jones in Bath. As a girl, she rode horses and model trains – her father, a businessman and landowner, and a train fanatic, had built his own steam railway. Elizabeth's mother at one point had two grand pianos, but with her father's death in 1948, the family lost everything.
Elizabeth, then in her 20s, turned to antique dealing. This continued for nearly 60 years of Sundays throughout her acting and family life.
She was born Elizabeth Devonshire Jones in Bath. As a girl, she rode horses and model trains – her father, a businessman and landowner, and a train fanatic, had built his own steam railway. Elizabeth's mother at one point had two grand pianos, but with her father's death in 1948, the family lost everything.
Elizabeth, then in her 20s, turned to antique dealing. This continued for nearly 60 years of Sundays throughout her acting and family life.
- 4/15/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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