Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.
It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.
It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.
The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.
Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party. There is no analysis of anything beyond that, and these two parties are exactly identical, following the same Neoliberal policies for thirty years. And it's no criticism outside of that, it's just that there's basically sectarian pandering to these two individual parties, these two individual organisations. They still make a lot of great programmes and do a lot of great things, but there's not much political analysis happening broader to that.
I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.
I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond
BBC had tried to develop the book, set in England, as a two-hour movie. I went to a meeting and they said, "Look at this," and I thought the book was outstanding. I was like, "Can I do this?"
BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life. . . a mirror that reflects. . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.
An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC. . . I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.
It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy. ' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef. ' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood.
There are traditionalists, and there are people in the middle, which is where I am. I still get my newspaper delivered. I love the ritual of it. But I also jump into the cab when I leave home and I look at some BBC on my iPad.
The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.
In other words, when you have someone [like Ridley Scott] with that authority, then you tend to be left alone. But they were good and they're really good people, and I'm a big champion of the BBC and I think that like minds find each other and I think that FX and BBC is a perfect match.
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
There is only one real 'risk' and danger regarding the nuclear escalation in North Korean: that the world is quickly accepting as inevitable the fact that the Western thuggish regimes can get away with anything. I see no other serious problem that the world today is facing. What is Kim Jong-un's strategy? To defend his people by all means, against the brutal force that has already murdered millions of people of Korea. It is all very simple, but only if one is willing to turn off the BBC and to use his or her own brain, it becomes 'obvious'.
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.
I once worked with Emma Thompsons mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with.
It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
