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TV costs squeeze good shows as writers find new stages
A viewer letter to Variety asks why TV cannot afford quality programs. The piece notes rising costs, shift of talent to Broadway and film, and predicts a rebound for live television with tape advances. It cites directors and writers moving between TV and theatre, including Gibson Penn Coe Hill and Smight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Foundation For the Preservation of
Matinee Theater
Frank Hansman
NBC
Hollywood
Broadway
Jefferson Drum
William Gibson
Arthur Penn
Fred Coe
Angel
Critics Circle
George Roy Hill
Alex Segal
Times Square
Dan Petrie
Budd Schulberg
Bob Mulligan
Robert Herridge
Lively Arts
Kraft
Jonah
David Susskind
N. Richard Nash
Martin Manulis
Twentieth Century Fox
Sidney Lumet
Delbert Mann
John Frankenheimer
Jack Smight