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Name: Dai Richards on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Freelance ProducerComments: These cuts are so severe that they will inevitably reduce Storyville to a shadow - even a mockery - of itself.Flag
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Name: Delphine Jaudeau on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Producer/Director 'Iran and the West'Comments:Flag
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Name: Norma Percy on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Executive Producer, Brook LappingComments:Flag
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Name: Ove Rishøj Jensen on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: European Documentary GroupComments:Flag
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Name: Lindsey Dryden on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Associate Producer, Current TVComments:Flag
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Name: Kerry McLeod on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Director, Documentary Filmmakers' GroupComments:Flag
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Name: Benetta Adamson on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Director, 'Thalidamide: Life at 40'Comments: 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. ÂFlag
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Name: Benetta Adamson on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Director, 'Thalidamide: Life at 40'Comments: 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. ÂFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Producer/Director RDFComments: 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....Flag
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Name: Richard Bradley on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: AP, Optomen TVComments: 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.Flag
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Name: Reggie Nadelson on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: free-lance journalist, documentary presenter and writerComments: 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.Flag
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Name: Lindsay Keith on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: series producer, freelanceComments: 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.Flag
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Name: Benetta Adamson on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Director, 'Thalidomide: Life at 40'Comments: 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. ÂFlag
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Name: Josh Pitt on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Line Producer, partizanComments: Don't let it happen.Flag
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Name: Steve Allen on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: FreelanceComments: A dumb move by dumb people for dumb people.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: producerComments: Please keep this vital slot.Flag
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Name: Marc Isaacs on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: directorComments: 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.Flag
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Name: James Dawson on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Producer/DirectorComments: Don't do it Beeb! The genuinely independent sector needs this outlet and its a tiny outlay compared with the drama budgets.Flag
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Name: Jane Callaghan on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Director, Multimedia VenturesComments: Storyville needs more investment, not less to preserve the one off documentary for television.Flag
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Name: Phil Moore on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Studio Rarekwai, ProducerComments: 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 filmmakerFlag
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Name: Ad Ahmed on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Freelance Producer/Director, currently working on a new documentary series "Britain's New Mafia" for VashcaComments: "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.Flag
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Name: Doug Aubrey on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: directorComments: 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.Flag
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Name: Jason Evans on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Producer/Director/Cameraman - Freelance - Vashca TV at presentComments:Flag
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Name: Nancy Platt on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: Freelance P-DComments: 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.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 27, 2007Position, Company: freelanceComments: 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!Flag
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