85 Authors Protest At The BBC’s Treatment Of Genre Fiction

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/04/16/85-authors-protest-at-the-bbc%E2%80%99s-treatment-of-genre-fiction/#ixzz1Jv6ZTi7x

Too right

[The Doctor Alt 8]

The BBC are morons.

[Emperor]

Let's be honest, the Beeb's mishandling of genre TV, should have been warning enough that this wouldn't end well.

Hopefully, Auntie won't get defensive and might open a dialogue with the writers about this as we do need people writing genre TV who are actually familiar with the genre or we'll keep getting awful shows (although an awful lot of their new comedy also suggests they employ people who don't know what is funny either so...).

[TordelBack]

Any petition that has Dave Langford's signature on it has my support.  If he still believes in genre fiction after the mountains of shite he's read (and eviscerated) over the years, it must have something going for it.

[uncle fester]

Inside the hallowed halls of the Beeb it's a different world folks.
Prof. Brian Cox would struggle to explain the level of insignificance with which the employees view the general public.