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What's TV's problem with theatre? by John Wyver

Once upon a time, Ibsen and Chekhov were primetime fare. So why is theatre never on TV any more? Broadcasters are missing a trickIn early 1965 Granada produced Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women for primetime ITV, starring Diana Rigg. The adaptation, which will be shown at the BFI next week, came less than three years after the Royal Shakespeare Company had staged the play's first professional production in more t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31PM on March 20, 2013

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