Television
Lodge has adapted two of his novels as television screenplays: Small World (1984), and Nice Work (1989). Nice Work was filmed at the University of Birmingham, where Lodge was Professor of English. He also adapted his play The Writing Game for television broadcast (1995).
In 1994 Lodge adapted Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit for a BBC series.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.”
—Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)
“Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.”
—Marc Fumaroli (b. 1932)
“So by all means let’s have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn’t it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)