British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Contexts....Pages 16-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Sydney Newman and the ‘Golden Age’....Pages 40-44
Television Drama Series: A Producer’s View....Pages 45-51
TV Drama: Then and Now....Pages 52-57
Writing Television Drama: Then and Now....Pages 58-61
Brookside: The Technology Backstory....Pages 62-69
Plot Inflation in Greater Weatherfield: Coronation Street in the 1990s....Pages 70-83
Persuaded? The Impact of Changing Production Contexts on Three Adaptations of Persuasion....Pages 84-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
‘The Age of Innocence’....Pages 107-111
Playing Shops, Shopping Plays: The Effect of the Internal Market on Television Drama....Pages 112-117
‘A Hero Mumsy’: Parenting, Power and Production Changes in The Sarah Jane Adventures....Pages 118-130
Downton Abbey: Reinventing the British Costume Drama....Pages 131-142
What Do Actors Do When They Act?....Pages 143-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
The 1970s: Regional Variations....Pages 166-171
‘What Truth is There in this Story?’: The Dramatisation of Northern Ireland....Pages 172-183
Moving Waterloo Road from Rochdale to Greenock: Exploring a Sense of Place in Drama Series....Pages 184-190
Too Secret for Words: Coded Dissent in Female-authored Wednesday Plays....Pages 191-202
‘Ah! Our very own Juliet Bravo, or is it Jill Gascoine?’ Ashes to Ashes and Representations of Gender....Pages 203-213
Power Plays: Gender, Genre and Lynda La Plante....Pages 214-223
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Conclusion....Pages 224-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-255