| Following the news that the network
will allocate £17m extra into BBC Scotland's programming over the next two years,
management at the station promised that the money will be spent wisely. "In
the past," a senior executive conceded "any extra money sent from London has, to
use the technical term, been pissed against the wall on departmental vanity projects. 'The
Creatives' to take just one example, how shite was that?"
Management now concede that part of the problem has lain in the station's over
reliance on a relatively small pool of creative talent mainly drawn from the metropolitan
middle-classes of Glasgow and Edinburgh. This, however, is set to change echoing the
Scottish Executive's drive towards social inclusion, with BBC Scotland intending to invite
creative pitches from a wider social mix. |
In a planned roll out, Glasgow will
benefit first from the new pitching policy. "Apart from the usual west-end areas,
we'll now look at pitches coming in from those resident further towards Partick, but not
Partickhill obviously, we have to maintain some standards." In the
Capital, production pitches from New Town addresses will, quite properly, continue to
receive the most serious attention, but the BBC promise to look at ideas coming from the
better parts of Stockbridge.
Leith, sadly, is still out of the frame due to the continuing residence in the
area of scary looking working class types complete with tattooed dogs, probably |
