TV storytelling, like that of any creative medium, is essentially the art of recycling of ideas that have seen the light of day many, many times before. Christopher Booker’s 2004 book, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories proposed the existence of a finite number of story ideas, and Continue Reading
“Life is a journey to be experienced” … Happy 90th birthday Winnie the Pooh!
It may hard to believe but Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne’s beloved creation who, along with other characters based on his son Christopher’s stuffed animals, resides in the quintessentially-English Hundred Acre Woods, is 90 today. Yes, 90 years old! Time flies when you’re eating a great many smackerels of Continue Reading