Having seen 2 TV people post this week about being brought to the brink of suicide by the current crisis, and given the 50+% still unable to get work in the industry, could I ask colleagues at @EdinburghTVFest to PLEASE raise the issues, in conference, over drinks, at breakfasts and dinners with everyone ALL THE TIME. The silence is still deafening, the happy holiday snaps from senior TV folk feel quite tone-deaf and many who have given a huge part of their lives to TV are, despite great work... Read more
Having seen 2 TV people post this week about being brought to the brink of suicide by the current crisis, and given the 50+% still unable to get work in the industry, could I ask colleagues at @EdinburghTVFest to PLEASE raise the issues, in conference, over drinks, at breakfasts and dinners with everyone ALL THE TIME. The silence is still deafening, the happy holiday snaps from senior TV folk feel quite tone-deaf and many who have given a huge part of their lives to TV are, despite great work by some organizations, still largely unsupported. Please, please use this platform if you can.
When I head the news about John Balson, I cried. I never knew John, but I felt every word he was saying about the industry and the way it leaves people feeling. Just after I’d read the article I bumped into my Exec on the train whilst I was in trying not to cry, they asked what the matter was and I explained about John. They were absolutely baffled as to why anyone would ever feel like that because of TV, and clearly thought I would think the same. Little did they know that I felt a similar way to John, and when the Exec said ‘I hope others feel they’re able to talk to those in charge at work about this stuff’ how ironic that statement was.
There’s still so much to be done, in Johns memory and in the interest of no one else’s story going the same way.