JH: But the problem is, how are the scriptwriters going to sustain all this?
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JH: It is unlikely … and there were so many other things The Archers' scriptwriters could have done that would have been more productive from the storyline point of view.
He became one of the great scriptwriters of his day, and we in the London news room felt a surrogate warmth: we'd shared a desk and a wastepaper basket with Arthur.
"Life would be boring without gossip," he (or rather one of his scriptwriters) said.
Because the criteria include where a film is set and the nationality of its main characters, actors and scriptwriters, film-makers can easily qualify by adding a few minor details, such as shoot-outs in Waterloo station and the assassination in the first few minutes of a British journalist (both features of "The Bourne Ultimatum").
Yet, as Meral Okay, one of the scriptwriters, commented, "the children of the Sultan were not conceived by pollination…he did have a sex life and a family".
From the 1950s onwards, actors and scriptwriters with political ambitions often used their films as promotional vehicles.
This is one sequel where the scriptwriters are going to have to work extra hard to come up with a happy ending.
And, curiously, Oscar-winning scriptwriters live 3.6 years less than do nominees.
IT IS a cliché beloved by scriptwriters of television wildlife programmes that predators prefer to take prey who are sick, old or young.
