In Message <10656@deehan.demon.co.uk> dated 30 May 97,
vince@deehan.demon.co.uk (Vince Deehan) said that ...
> In the post this morning I was very delighted to receive a postcard from
> Richmond Films and Television Productions announcing their new series called
> WAVELENGTH which starts on ITV (in the UK) next Wednesday (June 4th) at 4:40.
> It's not written by Steven Moffat but by a chap called Paul Cornell who
> I know is a Press Gang fan. The only other thing that I know about Paul is
> that I believe he has written some Doctor Who novels. (Steven is also a big
> Doctor Who fan).
I can claim to know a little about the origins of this series. I knew Paul
Cornell fairly well when he and I were at Lancaster University together in
the early 1990s. We both worked for the student radio station and Paul
often said that there was enough material in all the comings and goings to
make a series out of it. He and I were both huge PG fans and would have
long arguments as to the relative merits of LB and JS so it does not come
as any surprise that he has finally made the series with the same group of
people.
He is an enormously talented writer, as anyone who has read some of his
Doctor Who novels will testify and he was also one of the authors of the
Guinness Book of Classic British TV - the article on Press Gang was almost
certainly his work. 'Wavelength' should be highly recommended... I for one
shall be watching it, if only to spot which of my former colleagues have
had characters based on them (and heaven help us all if I recognise
myself!).
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