Should a Man Write the Sarah Everard Drama? 400 Female Screenwriters vs. The BBC

TV Insiders Peter Fincham and Jimmy Mulville debate the BBC's controversial Sarah Everard drama and whether a man should be writing it, explore how the Married at First Sight UK fallout could threaten Love Island, and confirm your suspicions: your favourite TV shows DO keep disappearing for longer and longer…

Topics discussed:

• The 400 female screenwriters who signed an open letter against the BBC commissioning Jeff Pope to write the Sarah Everard drama
• Should men write dramas about violence against women? Or is it too soon for a factual drama about Sarah Everard at all?
• Love Island relaunching under the shadow of the Married at First Sight UK/Panorama scandal
• What next for MAFS UK after all episodes taken down from Channel 4, TUI pulls sponsorship and the "hush email" sent to workers?
• The Stranger Things Effect: why the gap between TV seasons has more than doubled in a decade – and does it actually matter?
• After the success of ice hockey romance dramas Heated Rivalry and Off Campus, is sport + sex TV's hottest new genre?
• Could croquet, bowls or darts be the UK's answer to ice hockey romance?

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Chapters:

• 0:00 Intro and Jon Petrie joining Hat Trick Productions
• 2:51 The Sarah Everard Drama: Should a Man Be Writing It?
• 14:35 Love Island, Married at First Sight UK & Reality TV's Reckoning?
• 25:06 The Stranger Things Effect: Why TV Shows Disappear for Years
• 30:33 Ice Hockey Romance: TV's Hottest New Genre?

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Jimmy Mulville is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hat Trick Productions. His list of hit shows includes Have I Got News For You, Father Ted, Derry Girls, Outnumbered, and Episodes. In the US Hat Trick launched Whose Line Is It Anyway in 1997 which ran on ABC for seven years and was the first British series to be recreated for American network television by a British producer.

Peter Fincham ran TalkBack, where he executive produced many of their biggest shows including I’m Alan Partridge, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, and Da Ali G Show. He went on to be Controller of BBC1, then he was Director of Television at ITV, before returning to the independent sector as the co-CEO of Expectation, the company behind Clarkson's Farm and Alma's Not Normal. New episodes every Friday.

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