Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 27, 2010 18:53:27 GMT
It seems to be more and more of a trend. Another BBC performer has hit out at the mindset prevalent at the corporation. I would agree that Victoria Wood has more genuine talent than any of those running things there, so her views are particularly valid.
'I don't feel trusted or valued,' says Victoria Wood as she blasts her BBC paymasters
By Paul Revoir
Victoria Wood has launched a scathing attack on her BBC paymasters claiming she does not feel 'valued' or 'trusted' by them.
She also hit out at interfering bosses warning them: 'Please don't tell me what's funny, cos I know what's funny'.
The award-winning performer said the constant meddling of BBC executives had left her feeling 'miffed' and 'sidelined'.
The 57-year-old star also criticised some of the star salaries at the broadcaster as 'disproportionate' saying they could pay for much needed things like costumes and actors.
The actress and comedian is still fuming after her 2009 special Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas was demoted from a peak-time Christmas Day slot to a Christmas Eve showing.
Miss Wood said the BBC executive who made the decision did not even tell her and had never even met with her. She accused the woman of instead sending a 'winged monkey' to talk to her about it.
She also accused of the corporation of becoming 'faceless' and showing a lack of 'respect' when dealing with performers like her. Miss Wood said the sheer 'layers' of BBC staff she had to deal with was 'tiresome'.
Speaking in a newspaper interview, she said: 'I just find the layers of people you have to deal with tiresome. And you think "Well, fine, you make it then, I won't make it at all, I'll go home and put the washing on, fine". You used to be trusted and now I feel like I'm not trusted, and I don't like it. Not valued, not needed on voyage - that's what it makes you feel like.
'I'm not trying to pull a big huff. It's not a celebrity huff. It's a working persons huff, and I think it's a justified huff, and its on behalf of all of us who feel miffed and sidelined and overly interfered with.'
She told The Guardian that a lot of performers were fed up with the 'great hierarchies at the BBC.
She added: 'So it's just defeating because it becomes faceless.'
Mother-of-two Miss Wood said BBC bosses used to 'leave her alone' but that now everyone is 'chucking in their two penneth'.
She said: 'And I want to be reasonable, and I want to be cooperative. But I want there to be mutual respect, and there isn't any.'
The Bafta award winning star, whose work has included Acorn Antiques, Dinnerladies and Housewife 49, admitted she resented being told how to make people laugh.
She said:'Please don't tell me what's funny, cos I know what's funny. And you probably don't. That's why I am on television and you are not.'
She claimed the BBC executive that moved her show walked past her in the corridor without speaking to her.
She added: 'I just think it's rude. I treat them with manners, I turn up on time and I make my shows on time and I make them as well as I can.
'And if somebody's got a problem with something I'm doing I think they should step into the same room or email me or telephone me, and not send a winged monkey to talk to me about it.'
Miss Wood is currently casting for a Morecambe and Wise biopic about their early years for the BBC.
It is claimed she is having to recruit locally to avoid paying travel expenses.
Talking of star salaries at the BBC she said: 'Well I know what I get for certain jobs, and when I see what other people get it seems like an awful lot.
'It's a very bizarre area because you're worth what someone will pay. But when it is coming out of the licence fee, some of the pay seems disproportionate. Naming no names of course.' She admitted Jonathan Ross was the obvious case.
She money for overpaid star salaries could have paid for things 'that would have made a broadcast channel much more rich and varied instead of lumping it all to one face'.
By Paul Revoir
Victoria Wood has launched a scathing attack on her BBC paymasters claiming she does not feel 'valued' or 'trusted' by them.
She also hit out at interfering bosses warning them: 'Please don't tell me what's funny, cos I know what's funny'.
The award-winning performer said the constant meddling of BBC executives had left her feeling 'miffed' and 'sidelined'.
The 57-year-old star also criticised some of the star salaries at the broadcaster as 'disproportionate' saying they could pay for much needed things like costumes and actors.
The actress and comedian is still fuming after her 2009 special Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas was demoted from a peak-time Christmas Day slot to a Christmas Eve showing.
Miss Wood said the BBC executive who made the decision did not even tell her and had never even met with her. She accused the woman of instead sending a 'winged monkey' to talk to her about it.
She also accused of the corporation of becoming 'faceless' and showing a lack of 'respect' when dealing with performers like her. Miss Wood said the sheer 'layers' of BBC staff she had to deal with was 'tiresome'.
Speaking in a newspaper interview, she said: 'I just find the layers of people you have to deal with tiresome. And you think "Well, fine, you make it then, I won't make it at all, I'll go home and put the washing on, fine". You used to be trusted and now I feel like I'm not trusted, and I don't like it. Not valued, not needed on voyage - that's what it makes you feel like.
'I'm not trying to pull a big huff. It's not a celebrity huff. It's a working persons huff, and I think it's a justified huff, and its on behalf of all of us who feel miffed and sidelined and overly interfered with.'
She told The Guardian that a lot of performers were fed up with the 'great hierarchies at the BBC.
She added: 'So it's just defeating because it becomes faceless.'
Mother-of-two Miss Wood said BBC bosses used to 'leave her alone' but that now everyone is 'chucking in their two penneth'.
She said: 'And I want to be reasonable, and I want to be cooperative. But I want there to be mutual respect, and there isn't any.'
The Bafta award winning star, whose work has included Acorn Antiques, Dinnerladies and Housewife 49, admitted she resented being told how to make people laugh.
She said:'Please don't tell me what's funny, cos I know what's funny. And you probably don't. That's why I am on television and you are not.'
She claimed the BBC executive that moved her show walked past her in the corridor without speaking to her.
She added: 'I just think it's rude. I treat them with manners, I turn up on time and I make my shows on time and I make them as well as I can.
'And if somebody's got a problem with something I'm doing I think they should step into the same room or email me or telephone me, and not send a winged monkey to talk to me about it.'
Miss Wood is currently casting for a Morecambe and Wise biopic about their early years for the BBC.
It is claimed she is having to recruit locally to avoid paying travel expenses.
Talking of star salaries at the BBC she said: 'Well I know what I get for certain jobs, and when I see what other people get it seems like an awful lot.
'It's a very bizarre area because you're worth what someone will pay. But when it is coming out of the licence fee, some of the pay seems disproportionate. Naming no names of course.' She admitted Jonathan Ross was the obvious case.
She money for overpaid star salaries could have paid for things 'that would have made a broadcast channel much more rich and varied instead of lumping it all to one face'.