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# NamePosition, CompanyComments
3451 AnonymousAnonymousAs a filmmaker and a documentarist I have experienced the disappearance of funding and slots first hand. It is a terrible loss and a stark indictment of the state of British broadcasting if one of the best and important documentary strands disappears from our screens.
3452 INGRIDPRODUCER ANGEL FILMS
3453 AnonymousAnonymous
3454 Raymond Toussaintproducer/ scriptwriter Moving Media ProductionsStoryville is a brilliant documentary slot worldwide, and open to international coproduction. A quality name to the BBC, and inspiration to many producers in Europe. The BBC needs to continue this with funding and support!
3455 Jonathan JenkinsDirector, flyoffthewall ltd
3456 Nikos DayandasDirector/producer, Anemon ProductionsTo weaken Storyville is to push what once was the strongest documentary tradition in Europe, a little further towards extinction.
3457 Danielle SchleifHead of Development, Antartida Produccions
3458 Anthony Stone-Storyville is the reason I bought a digital receiver to receive BBC4.
3459 AnonymousAnonymous
3460 Erik EvrardCEO, Evrard Consulting bvba
3461 Juliette VeberDocumentary Filmmaker
3462 PaulFilmmaker, Video Editor CBS SportsStrands like Storyville are essential to health of documentary film. Independent documentaries ARE the new journalism, as traditional sources of news coverage bow down to corporate and commercial pressures. How can we expect this unique art form to survive without funding sources such as Storyville? SAVE STORYVILLE!
3463 Patrik PassProducer
3464 Matthijs Wouter KnolIDFA Industry Office (FORUM, Docs for Sale, IDFAcademy)
3465 Leh-Chyun LinDirector, International Dept., PTS
3466 Ryan BestfordSolicitorStoryville is one of the reasons I rated the BBC so highly and continuing to support top quality documentaries such as the Storyville series is clearly within the mandate of the BBC.
3467 Reda YounsiPhD student at the University of East AngliaStoryville is unique in style and content. It will be a big loss for everyone. I hope the BBC will reassess this proposal, in addition, my message to the BBC executives – Please stop screening celebrities boring lives and get on with what the BBC does best, factual programmes and world class documentaries.
3468 Jill Helmifreelance
3469 AnonymousAnonymousPlease keep it doing at good funding.
3470 AnonymousAnonymous
3471 Rose JonesFreelance Director
3472 Rhonda Klevanskyproducer, Ibis Eye Images
3473 Patrick van SchaikStudent
3474 AnonymousAnonymousDocumentaries are the only thing that make tv worthwhile - abandon them and you have no hope of justifying the license fee any more!
3475 AnonymousAnonymouswe need storyville!!
3476 Ivy Lahonthe Independent Newspaper
3477 arthur georgesonfather of lewisI agree with Lewis
3478 Yahaly GatProducer, Director, Muse productions, Israel
3479 AnonymousAnonymous
3480 caroline hellyerfreelance bottom of pileI cannot believe that the BBC is so shortsighted and disconnected from its public that they will sacrifice one of the few good things they have left - Storyville. Instead they appear, these last few years, to be aiming for the Trash TV of the year award. Just when real documentary is gaining in popularity (in place of the cheap, embarrasingly bad fly-on-the-wall make an idiot of the people genre) they move to cut it. Documentary & News & Current Affairs are part of the BBC´s public service remit now honour that! Cut the Fat Cat salaries not documentaries.
3481 Lisa CookFreelance
3482 AnonymousAnonymous
3483 AnonymousAnonymousPutting aside the "mere" attraction of thoughtful programming, one of the important roles of TV is expanding the awareness of the electorate. Television was truly something special in this country. Soon we will have the voters we deserve with cuts like this. But I guess, that's the idea.
3484 Shannon MagnessDPhil StudentStoreyville rocks. Why get rid of it? So people will be STUCK with mindless 'factual television' ? Keep Storyville alive. If you don't, somebody else will steal the idea and ruin it (or run with it). In fact, you could expand Storyville.
3485 Tim BradburnProducer/Director
3486 AnonymousAnonymous
3487 Garth TuckerFtreelance Director
3488 Martin ClarkeSound Recordist
3489 David Betz-HeinemannDirector, People at Play
3490 AnonymousAnonymous
3491 Janet LawrenceProducer/Director Tradewinds ProductionI am extremely dismayed at the thought that Storyville be cut. Here is one of the few strands left for well crafted (dirty word?) single documentaries. We cannot allow this to happen! British (and worldwide ) television needs our help. As a producer who have worked in Britain and for PBS (USA) We need to keep our EYES ON THE PRIZE so we don't lose great programming.
3492 Sandra GoddardFreelance
3493 Daneeta Loretta SaftDirector+Producer, The Elektrik ZooI have recently noticed a trend to more reality based TV shows on the BBC. These shows are being favored over documentary commissions. I strongly protest this new trend. Reality based TV is cheap, meaningless and boring TV. There is no thinking involved, and, while there is nothing wrong with light entertainment, it should not be favoured over quality TV. The Storyville budget must increase, not decrease. I would like my TV tax to bring me more meaningful TV than reality-based TV.
3494 Lawrence MOOREDirectorI whole-heartedly agree that the BBC has a responsibility to its public to maintain serious documentary strands in the face of the appalling decline in British television.
3495 AnonymousAnonymous
3496 Hila BarozProducer
3497 Valeria CoizzaProducer, Kenzi
3498 AnonymousAnonymousHow can this happen, save Storyville, I watch it regardless of interest in the subject as I know it will always suprise and interest me.
3499 Ross McElwainFreelance
3500 John MurphyFilm Maker

 

Signatures | Total: 3,562