Television
Produced and presented the BBC arts magazine Monitor (1958–1964) and Review (1971–1972). Also produced Kean (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1954) for BBC television (starring Anthony Hopkins and directed by James Cellan Jones) (1978).
Directed the following productions:
- Langrishe, Go Down (starring Judi Dench and Jeremy Irons) (1978)
- Look Back in Anger (co-directed with Lindsay Anderson and starring Malcolm McDowell) (1980)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (starring Richard Griffiths as Falstaff) (1982)
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)
- The Devil's Disciple (1987)
- The Christmas Wife (starring Jason Robards and Julie Harris) (1988)
- Fire in the Dark (starring Olympia Dukakis) (1991)
- And Then There Was One (1994)
- A Christmas Carol
Also various episodes of:
- Picket Fences (1992)
- Chicago Hope (1994)
- The Practice (The Civil Right) (1997)
- Law & Order: SVU (1999)
- 7th Heaven (2003)
- Bones (The Man on Death Row) (2005)
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“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)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)