Screen Forever 2015: John Edwards and the Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture

John Edwards, key television producer, stirs the pot and juggles jellyfish on the need for long running series, support for new creators, and the inflated price of series production.
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Image: Love My Way – John Edwards, Claudia Karvan  and Jacqueline Perske taking advantage of Foxtel’s light commissioning touch.   

Satchell Paige said that more than sixty years ago (so did the Book of Genesis maybe three thousand years before that). It’s been something of a watchword for me for all the years I’ve been in this business. I suspect it is for most of us – doubt and faltering are corrosive, looking back at what we’ve left behind is mostly of little practical value once we’ve chosen our path. Except sometimes you have to…

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