Post by Teddy Bear on Mar 19, 2013 18:51:00 GMT
It's what we knew anyway, but John Cleese has seen it up close
John Cleese: 'The BBC management have never written and never directed programmes'
Monty Python star John Cleese complains that BBC execs are out of touch with the creative process.
Rachel Ward
Monty Python actor John Cleese was present last night for the filming of tribute programme Goodbye Television Centre, in which a host of BBC stars bid farewell to the famous Wood Lane building which is to close at the end of the month.
Also in atendance were celebrities including David Attenborough, Michael Parkinson, Terry Wogan, Bruce Forsyth, Ronnie Corbett and David Jason.
Cleese used the opportunity to express his wider opinions about new BBC management, who he said insist on having a say in every aspect of making a show.
"The people who became executives [in the Sixties and Seventies] had produced or directed a great deal of comedy. Now there seems to be an executive class and they have never written and never directed."
Former Good Life star Penelope Keith also commented that the entertainment and drama departments no longer have an identifiable home. "We are orphans," she said.
Monty Python star John Cleese complains that BBC execs are out of touch with the creative process.
Rachel Ward
Monty Python actor John Cleese was present last night for the filming of tribute programme Goodbye Television Centre, in which a host of BBC stars bid farewell to the famous Wood Lane building which is to close at the end of the month.
Also in atendance were celebrities including David Attenborough, Michael Parkinson, Terry Wogan, Bruce Forsyth, Ronnie Corbett and David Jason.
Cleese used the opportunity to express his wider opinions about new BBC management, who he said insist on having a say in every aspect of making a show.
"The people who became executives [in the Sixties and Seventies] had produced or directed a great deal of comedy. Now there seems to be an executive class and they have never written and never directed."
Former Good Life star Penelope Keith also commented that the entertainment and drama departments no longer have an identifiable home. "We are orphans," she said.