4 weeks ago
Sir Phil Redmond, nan celebrated British writer down bid including Grange Hill and Hollyoaks, has lamented nan authorities of nan tv industry, arguing that much prime has made it harder to find awesome storytelling.
In a freewheeling reside astatine nan Creative Cities Convention successful nan metropolis of Liverpool, Redmond blamed U.S. streaming services for bringing “digital boredom” to audiences. He based on that uncovering awesome tv is for illustration searching for a gem successful a “torrent of pebbles.”
Redmond described a acquainted segment successful which families discarded clip attempting to find thing to watch amid an abundance of choice. He described it arsenic nan “looks s**t” problem, arsenic viewers flick done thumbnails and trailers successful hunt of a awesome story. “You abruptly recognize you’ve mislaid 30 minutes,” he said, noting that this is astir nan magnitude of a soap episode.
“Algorithms are conscionable a replacement for assemblage research. And what that gives you is: One much of that. But much of that intends much of nan same. More of nan aforesaid leads to integer boredom,” he explained. “But nan point astir being a storyteller is really you person to astonishment people. That’s nan creation of storytelling. You person to support surprising, that’s what productivity is each about.”
Redmond besides issued a withering assesmment of nan commissioning process. He joked: “There’s an aged saying that those who can’t, teach. I utilized to opportunity those who can’t moreover do that go journalists. Those who can’t moreover do that go commissioning editors.”
