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BBCNEWS The Media Show June 4, 2024 16:39:00

About the show, you know. to get some publicity? yeah. yeah, obviously. i mean, you know, i used to be accused of sort of doing the cynical, ratings grabbing exercises. and, you know, my point to the media is, and your point is what? so you weren t saying, no, i m not doing that. you were saying, yes, i am. the job was to get the biggest numbers that we could for channel 4. you know, and it s quite interesting listening to the numbers now, cos if we d have reached some of those numbers back in the day, we d have been pulled, you know? but i was quite interested listening. when you threw out those figures about the time from storyline to script, i think that s one of the big problems that s happened you know, that people have forgotten how difficult they are, actually, to make. and our storylines always were two years in the making. you know, we d have a two year plan, then an 18 month, then 12 monthlong term planning, and then a storyline conference every month ahead of the scr ....

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BBCNEWS The Media Show June 4, 2024 09:46:00

They want bigger and bigger storylines, and that inevitably led to trying to top the last one, trying to top the last one. and one of our watchwords was, ok, that s the big story. now it s back to putting up shelves, you know, because you have to sort of take those beats, you have to take those pauses with the audience. and if you keep throwing it in, you burn up storylines so fast that, in the end, itjust becomes. itjust becomes wallpaper in the end, you know? now, let s think about being in soaps. let s talk about being in them. charles, you joined the archers in 1975, almost 50 years ago, so i guess you ve got the best insight of what it s like to be in a soap. i mean, how much say do you get over your character? i mean, what happens if you don t think a storyline s right for brian? well, i m afraid you bite the bullet and say the words. actors are given the scripts, in television, they learn them and, us, we turn the pages over silently, reading them. and sometimes if we don t li ....

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BBCNEWS The Media Show June 4, 2024 16:46:00

And more sensation. you know, they wanted more. they wanted more and more episodes, they want bigger and bigger storylines, and that inevitably led to trying to top the last one, trying to top the last one. and one of our watchwords was, ok, that s the big story. now it s back to putting up shelves, you know, because you have to sort of take those beats, you have to take those pauses with the audience. and if you keep throwing it in, you burn up storylines so fast that, in the end, itjust becomes. itjust becomes wallpaper in the end, you know? now, let s think about being in soaps. let s talk about being in them. charles, you joined the archers in 1975, almost 50 years ago, so i guess you ve got the best insight of what it s like to be in a soap. i mean, how much say do you get over your character? i mean, what happens if you don t think a storyline s right for brian? well, i m afraid you bite the bullet and say the words. actors are given the scripts, in television, they learn them ....

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BBCNEWS The Media Show June 4, 2024 15:47:00

Itjust becomes. itjust becomes wallpaper in the end, you know? now, let s think about being in soaps. let s talk about being in them. charles, you joined the archers in 1975, almost 50 years ago, so i guess you ve got the best insight of what it s like to be in a soap. i mean, how much say do you get over your character? i mean, what happens if you don t think a storyline s right for brian? well, i m afraid you bite the bullet and say the words. actors are given the scripts, in television, they learn them and, us, we turn the pages over silently, reading them. and sometimes if we don t like the story, we say it. well, we say it anyway cos we re getting paid. but i ve always thought with the archers, for me, joining all those years ago, that the writers didn t know who brian was. in 1974, i was a vehicle to marryjennifer, and there was no cv. he was a cardboard cutout going out with this woman. and i said to the producer, look, you ve got to make ....

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BBCNEWS The Media Show June 4, 2024 15:40:00

Numbers back in the day, we d have been pulled, you know? but i was quite interested listening. when you threw out those figures about the time from storyline to script, i think that s one of the big problems that s happened you know, that people have forgotten how difficult they are, actually, to make. and our storylines always were two years in the making. you know, we d have a two year plan, then an 18 month, then i2 month long term planning, and then a storyline conference every month ahead of the scripts, and i think there s been a lot of kind of, like, disrespect, really, for both the production and also for the audience in soaps over the years. but how do you decide on storylines? you know, do you sit down, or did you sit down, with writers and think, you know, i don t know, drug addiction, and then decide, ok, well, we re going to give it to that character. is it as mechanical as that? do you then sort of thread it through in those two years where you re thinking about it? ....

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