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Alternative to Eating: October 2005

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Diatribes About Television and Film. Scriptwriters, by nature, are an anonymous group. Television writers even more so. Very rarely does a writer survive long enough and produce a good enough calibre of work to be recognised. Troy Kennedy Martin has been one of the few to gain such respect and acknowledgement. Yet this only occurred in 1985 with the transmission of his opus, Edge of Darkness, a full 27 years after he became a television screenwriter. It was 1962, however, that finally brought some attent...

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Alternative to Eating: August 2003

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Diatribes About Television and Film. Star Cops: So Much Promise For One Season Only. The series was devised by Chris Boucher who was working as script editor on Bergerac. However, Boucher had had a sterling career in television science fiction. He had written three Doctor Who stories in the mid 1970s and had ended up as script editor on Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7, a space opera concerning Blake and his freedom fighters who battled the evil Federation that ruled the Galaxy. An Instinct For Murder. By creato...

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Alternative to Eating: January 2006

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Diatribes About Television and Film. Some Rubbish About Genre. Film genres came out of Hollywood, it may be argued, due to "the commercial nature of Hollywood production". [i]. In short, if a movie became financially successful then the studios would naturally try to replicate the formula for future financial success. After a period of time, certain genres contained various conventions and iconography that repeated itself. [ii]. For instance a western may have, as a rule , cowboys, indians and even mexic...

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Alternative to Eating: July 2006

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Diatribes About Television and Film. Posted by jac at 11:08 pm. Witness Pulp Fiction Does Have A Structure. Pulp Fiction, while cleverly masking its structure in non-linear storytelling, its skeletal framework does have a three act structure that may be compared to such a traditional three act structured film like Witness. Posted by jac at 10:46 pm. Pilot: Regan (The Sweeney). Witness Pulp Fiction Does Have A Structure. When is Science Fiction Horror. Some Rubbish About Genre.

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Alternative to Eating: August 2006

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Diatribes About Television and Film. Pilot: Regan (The Sweeney). You know from the first scene this is going to be good. By the end you can't but notice the obvious series material of Regan. When broadcast , it went under the Armchair Cinema title. The film starts off in a London pub. It's very 70s, very cockney and very villainy (insert manic laughter here perhaps? They are the Sweeney! Wings will be clipped. Carter: The hours are regular and the wife's happy. And I'm up for a promotion. Well&#4...So Ca...

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Alternative to Eating: March 2006

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Diatribes About Television and Film. When is Science Fiction Horror. Such genre distinctions were, in certain instances, enhanced by the studio production system in Hollywood. 2. For instance, John Ford will always be remembered for making westerns or Val Lewton for producing horror films. These two people were successful in certain specific genres and so Hollywood tended to hire them to remake the style of films that made them known and the studios rich. This is especially true when horror films use com...

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Alternative to Eating: August 2005

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Diatribes About Television and Film. Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child. TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE- A COMPARISON. IF YOU SEARCH LONG ENOUGH YOU’LL FIND THE POT OF GOLD. FOR ME, IT’S THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE. IN THE 1960S THERE WEREN’T MANY SERIOUS ARTICLES ON DOCTOR WHO. EVERYONE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE DALEKS AND THE TOYS, OR DOES IT JUST SEEM THAT WAY? That’s a bit of a mystery. Then we get to see Susan. She’s listening to a band on a transistor radio. However, she’s performing a strange hand dance. ...When the ...

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Alternative to Eating: December 2005

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Diatribes About Television and Film. Doctor Who: The E-Space Trilogy. First published in 2000). The above statement is just typical of us Who fans. Even unconsciously, we have to justify our enjoyment of the programme. Better stop that sermon of self-justification, eh? Two things were going wrong, as we saw it. One was the pantomime element and the other was the element of magic which had come in. . I got the job on the premise that we would go back to basics. The Fourth Doctor Handbook. The power of the...