Blog posts by year and monthMarch 2011
Posts (12)
BBC Four's new programmes for spring
Spring is here, the sap is rising and I am delighted to say that BBC Four has a whole host of wonderful and entertaining shows lined up this season. A BBC Four audience is one that gets its kicks out of delighting in discourse. I believe that all human life can be found in almost any subject...
32 Brinkburn Street: I designed the set
32 Brinkburn Street is a new BBC One daytime drama timed to coincide with the 2011 census. It is set in two time periods, 1931 and 2011, with each episode covering 24 hours. The drama follows the lives of two generations of one family who live in the same terraced house in Manchester, compa...
The Indian Doctor is returning to BBC One
A record number of you (well over 400) posted your appreciation on Sanjeev Bhaskar's post on this blog for our recent daytime drama The Indian Doctor, so I'm absolutely delighted to tell you first that I have just recommissioned it for a second series. I can also reveal that our wonderful Wo...
Women In Love: Adapting DH Lawrence's famous novels
This is what I call squeaky bum time. A few days to go before transmission of the first instalment of my two-part version of DH Lawrence's Women In Love. Some press coverage has started to emerge and plenty more will be lined up behind it. Not to mention the opinions of numerous academics an...
The Bible's Buried Secrets
I was approached by the BBC's Religion and Ethics department back in 2009. They explained they were looking to work with a specialist on Bible's Buried Secrets, a documentary series about the Bible and archaeology, and that I'd been recommended to them. Now, I know I'm a bit of a geek, but I...
Comic Relief's 24 Hour Panel People: We did it!
One of the joys of developing television shows is the freedom to write a stupidly ambitious idea on two sides of A4, safe in the knowledge that it probably won't happen. However, in this instance, BBC Three and Comic Relief had other ideas and on 2 January 2011 we decided, with less than two ...
Is the background music too loud?
One of the most common complaints to BBC television in recent years has been that some people find it hard to hear the dialogue in our shows. They cite many reasons for this, the most common among them being background music being too loud. As a result of these complaints in 2009, Jay Hu...
Waking The Dead: Maggots, jam and mouldy corpses
It's a wet Friday morning at our studios in West London and it's my last day on series nine of Waking The Dead. We have just delivered 10 hours of primetime drama to BBC One - the final ever series. It's been a lightning five years since I started on series six and my mind turns to what ...
Rastamouse: Q&A with the animators
Rastamouse. For those not yet in the know, he's all about Makin' A Bad Ting Good. As are Dinamo Productions, the Welsh company behind the stop motion animation for this new hit children's programme. We bartered some cheese in exchange for an interview with joint managing director Aron Evans. ...
I'm one of The Culture Show's best new British novelists
The last week has been strange. People have been coming up to me in the small bookshop I work in, looking me in the eye, and saying, "Are you Evie Wyld?" My first impulse is to lie, say something like, "No, she left ages ago, she was no good." Or, gangster-style, "Who wants to know?" But,...
