David Hare furious at BBC after it rejects his Covid play, starring Ralph Fiennes
“Everyone was very keen on the show at the BBC until it went upstairs. Suddenly, mysteriously, something they were very keen to show, they became less keen to show.” theguardian.com/culture/2021/o…
“Everyone was very keen on the show at the BBC until it went upstairs. Suddenly, mysteriously, something they were very keen to show, they became less keen to show.” theguardian.com/culture/2021/o…
Suddenly it was “no one wants to see a play about Covid”
@Channel4 HELP has attracted their 2nd highest viewers for drama so I really think they do @BBC
The @BBC is yet again allowing protecting the Government from criticism to interfere with its duty of impartiality @Ofcom
@Channel4 HELP has attracted their 2nd highest viewers for drama so I really think they do @BBC
The @BBC is yet again allowing protecting the Government from criticism to interfere with its duty of impartiality @Ofcom
“His drama explores his illness, recovery, survivor’s rage and, ultimately, just being “glad to be alive”.
In the play, he takes aim at the prime minister and cabinet ministers and their systematic failings..
In the play, he takes aim at the prime minister and cabinet ministers and their systematic failings..
“..including “the lack of personal protective equipment, which has led to mass infections and the deaths of several nurses and doctors” and the “mass slaughter” that resulted from transferring infected patients from hospitals into care homes.”
In the sage play he said “People complain that this is a cabinet of mediocrities. But this does violence to the word. Mediocrity suggests middling ability. You and I are mediocrities. These people are incompetents.”
“Ministers like… Helen Whately, the hapless [former] minister of state for social care, who comes across like a quiz contestant who’d forgotten the name of the fourth Beatle – such people do not begin to merit the word ‘mediocrity’.”
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