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Largest TV studio

Slightly obtuse change, but it was an error; the one time Studio 5 at the Fountain Studios in Wembley is larger. This small detail can be verified here also. (Scroll down to "The arrival of television" if you are in a hurry!)

Philip Cross 18:30, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Factual problem?

"On 21 July - while Curteis was on holiday in Ireland - the BBC cancelled the play, citing the forthcoming General Election."

The 1987 general election polling day was 11 June so something here must be incorrect. Sam Blacketer (talk) 11:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was 21 July 1986 - previous refernece to "early 1987" should have read "early 1986". Nick Cooper (talk) 21:59, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Goodchild

In the published script, Curteis stresses that Goodchild's background was in documentaries, and that the smaller number of drama documentaries he was involved with are not comparable to "proper" drama. This may be arrogant on Curteis's part, but he saw it as a major factor in what he saw as Goodchild's naive interference, i.e. that he did not understand the work of a dramatic writer. As to Goodchild's entry on IMDB, it is undoubtedly incomplete and inevitably anything with some dramatic element stands more chance of inclusion than straight documentaries. Nick Cooper (talk) 12:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The nature of docudrama

MarnetteD appears to be labouring under the misapprhension that The Falklands Play is not a docudrama, "because there are no elements of a documentary - nly straight dramatization of events." This betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what a docudrama/drama-documentary/dramadoc is. By "elements of documentary" they presumably mean no interviews, voice-overs, etc., none of which are actually pre-requisites of a docudrama. Certainly in the UK (as applicable here), docudrama/drama-documentary/dramadoc includes any dramatisation of actual events that strives to adhere to the historical record and is presented as such, and with a minimal of dramatic licence. I would note that The Falklands Play is extensively referred to as a docudrama, dramadoc or drama-documentary in this context (e.g. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]). Nick Cooper (talk) 16:21, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]