SAVE STORYVILLE FROM EXTINCTION Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	Name	Position, Company	Comments
1	Tom Roberts	Executive Producer
2	Dai Richards	Freelance Producer	These cuts are so severe that they will inevitably reduce Storyville to a shadow - even a mockery - of itself.
3	Delphine Jaudeau	Producer/Director 'Iran and the West'
4	Alison Rooper	Executive Producer
5	Norma Percy	Executive Producer, Brook Lapping
6	Ove Rishøj Jensen	European Documentary Group
7	Lindsey Dryden	Associate Producer, Current TV
8	Kerry McLeod	Director, Documentary Filmmakers' Group
9	Lindsey Dryden	Associate Producer
10	Anonymous	Anonymous	Enough. One of the last bastions of proper television-making should stay just as it is. The BBC is becoming a laughing stock. Personally - I've been laughing for years. Come on - get on with it. Auntie is becoming an insufferable corporate whore....
11	Siobhán Hickey	Assistant Producer
12	Anonymous	Anonymous
13	Anonymous	Anonymous
14	Richard Bradley	AP, Optomen TV	Does our TV really have to go the way of US TV, being nothing more than cocaine for the public? Our documentaries are world famous for their hard hitting no-nonsense - lets keep them that way.
15	Anonymous	Anonymous
16	Reggie Nadelson	free-lance journalist, documentary presenter and writer	As an American who has worked on and off in British TV primarily at the BBC and on documentaries on several occasions for Storyville, I can only say that if this strand is not rescued and not given the resources to survive and, in fact, flourish, it will be not just sad but a kind of public tragedy. I've seen what's happened to documentary TV in the US over my life-time and it has, simply, apart from quite bland public tv stuff, disappeared. And it's not just about documentaries. As go dos, so eventually the news. Everything is now reality programming. Please don't let this happen to the last bastion of what is not just good and important but also manages that rarest of all things, to be these things and entertaining as well.
17	Lindsay Keith	series producer, freelance	Its bad enough that independent production companies often don't feel that they can spend time trying to get one-offs commissioned because the time spent: cost benefit ratio is not good enough, but when even the BBC goes down the route of wthdrawing support for documentaries, (particularly in the current climate while claiming it wants to uphold truthfullness in programme making), then something is badly wrong.
18	Anonymous	Anonymous
19	Benetta Adamson	Director, 'Thalidomide: Life at 40'	I feel very strongly that Storyville must be allowed to continue. The funding for it is already completely laughable, and to cut it further would be disastrous. If the BBC has any remaining obligation it must be to support experimental and non-tabloid filmmaking – an obligation it seems to have discounted entirely.
20	Olly Lambert	Director
21	Josh Pitt	Line Producer, partizan	Don't let it happen.
22	mikhael	director/editor
23	Steve Allen	Freelance	A dumb move by dumb people for dumb people.
24	Alison Carter	Film editor
25	Anonymous	Anonymous	Please keep this vital slot.
26	Anonymous	Anonymous	save storyville
27	marc isaacs	director	The loss of Storyville would be a disaster for UK documentarists and audiences. It is the duty of a Public service broadcaster to support creative documenatries and not to condemn us all to a life of meaningless "reality" tv. We should keep sending Mark Thompson emails persuading him to rethink and not stop until he does.
28	Andy Glynne	Director, DFG
29	Tony Young	Executive Producer
30	James Dawson	Producer/Director	Don't do it Beeb! The genuinely independent sector needs this outlet and its a tiny outlay compared with the drama budgets.
31	Jane Callaghan	Director, Multimedia Ventures	Storyville needs more investment, not less to preserve the one off documentary for television.
32	Ursula Macfarlane	director
33	Garry Brown	Student
34	Phil Moore	Studio Rarekwai, Producer	This petition has my full support. a threat to BBC's brilliant Storyville is a threat to good programming, which sadly seems to be the case for a large percentage of TV. I hope the BBC will reconsider their review and recognise the importance and value of Storyville and it's continued input into UK co-productions. Yours truly, An aspiring filmmaker
35	Adam Hopkins	Assistant Producer, IWC Media
36	Ad Ahmed	Freelance Producer/Director, currently working on a new documentary series "Britain's New Mafia" for Vashca	"The abolishment of more than a dozen documentary strands over the past decade"...unbelievable and unforgiveable, but surely not irreversible if enough of us make ourselves heard. We need to make it known that we will not stand for the continuing and unrelenting pressure upon inspiring documentary strands like Storyville.
37	doug aubrey	director	Despite it's flaws and Nick Frasers arrogance, this strand is crucial not just for prissy documentary makers in the south east but more importantly for a UK wide audience sick of multichannel eye candy.
38	Jan Bednarz	Director
39	lucinda broadbent	media co-op
40	Jason Evans	Producer/Director/Cameraman - Freelance - Vashca TV at present
41	Tim Band	N/A
42	Nancy Platt	Freelance P-D	These are desperate times for quality documentaries. Not only British but world filmmakers rely on slots like Storyville (except there aren't any) to help finance difficult but rewarding films. Please don't destroy one of our last resources. Take the money from the reality TV strands - they're a goner anyway.
43	dylan Harvey	DB Industries
44	Anonymous	Anonymous
45	Anonymous	Anonymous	Considering the current situation at BBC I feel they need to hold on to this truthful documentary series. They are getting these great films cheap enough already!
46	Jaudeau	Producer, Brook Lapping
47	Anonymous	Anonymous	Take a look at the quality of television across the board these days. A huge portion is dross. Storyville typifies why television can and does work so well to break boundaries, inform and truly entertain. It may not have the highest viewing figures compared to prime time programming, but please BBC, exercise some creative intelligence and respect the ever increasing responsibility the Corporation should have toward preserving programmes of high artistic and intellectual endeavour. Who else can still afford to do this?
48	Kathy Stannard	Freelance
49	Rosie Saunders	Assistant Producer
50	Audrey Aquilina	Freelance	Storyville is one of the few remaining strands upholding the Beeb's reputation for quality and public service, and the viewing is always interesting. Rather than kill it, spend a little more on marketing it.