David Hare furious at BBC after it rejects his Covid play, starring Ralph Fiennes - I Newz360

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Sunday, October 24, 2021

David Hare furious at BBC after it rejects his Covid play, starring Ralph Fiennes

Playwright, who was gravely ill with the virus, says it’s ‘nonsense’ that viewers don’t want a pandemic drama

A TV drama written and directed by Sir David Hare, produced by Sir Nicholas Hytner and starring Ralph Fiennes would be expected to excite any broadcaster. But the award-winning playwright has accused the BBC of rejecting it under the mistaken assumption that the public has no appetite for its subject: the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hare said: “The basic difficulty is that everybody is absolutely convinced that nobody wants to know anything about Covid-19. If you talk to, for instance, people at the BBC, they will just say: ‘Oh, give me drama on any other subject but Covid – people are not interested in Covid.’ There is absolutely no evidence for this.”

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3pxwdlO

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