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Article: The ice man cometh; Arts: The most expensive British drama ever made is to be shown on Channel 4 next week. Jasper Rees meets the director of Shackleton, Charles Sturridge. (television program review)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 27, 2001
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Byline: JASPER REES
THERE are no celebrated directors in television. Ever heard of Simon Langton's Pride and Prejudice? Thought not. A fiver if you can name the director of The Cops. And did anyone know that Part One of Cracker was un film de Michael Winterbottom? No, in television the authors are the auteurs.
It's in the movies that directors come surgically attached to apostrophes (Steven Spielberg's this, Martin Scorsese's that).
If anyone has made television a directorial medium, his name's Charles Sturridge. It was Sturridge who, at the age of 27, filmed 13 hours of Brideshead Revisited. He made that ambitious adaptation of Gulliver's ...