The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... most successful dramatists have complained about the nannying of narratives: Stephen Poliakoff and Tony Marchant, the latter revealing that he was required to complete an "online module" on drama before he wrote BBC1's Garrow's Law, training that included warnings against dividing the characters into simple "goodies and baddies". Comedians have expressed similar...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... of Israel I don’t put in question today, you understand me? Andrew Marr and the other bien pensants on Start The Week (Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tony Marchant, Sue Brown) swallowed it all completely uncritically - fawningly even. Unfortunately Denis MacShane was delayed by a vote in Parliament. Sand had ten minutes to present what Seth Frantzman called his “revisionist pseudo-history...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
HE is one of Britain’s most successful television dramatists, yet Tony Marchant has been told by the BBC to prove himself worthy by sitting an elementary test about how to portray “goodies and baddies”.
