TV drama has shifted from authorial vision to actor vehicles

Evidence

Well, I had the opportunity to see Potter’s 1976 masterpiece Brimstone and Treacle again very recently. (The play is shortly to be reissued as part of a must-have Potter DVD boxset, which also includes The Singing Detective, Pennies from Heaven and Casanova). In 2004, when TV drama is corporate, committee-driven, blandly homogenous, Potter looks even more of an anomaly than ever. Today, there’s almost no way of identifying TV dramas by who has written them; they are routinely conceived of as vehicles for actors, not authors. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 296

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Character-driven TV series differ from action genres in depicting inner conflict over violence; Casting choices act as narrative declarations of intent for characters — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 369

Broader Connections

• Casting choices act as narrative declarations of intent for characters #corroborates (0.80) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 369
• Character-driven TV series differ from action genres in depicting inner conflict over violence #qualifies (0.75)