BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Live theatre comes to digital TV
I went to London on Saturday for my daughter's birthday to see the Lion King (this is probably copyright Disney or something). great show well worth seeing simply for the costumes / puppets alone. Anyway, I started thinking about how perhaps, like sport, you could broadcast theatre performances live on the web. Obviously it would have to be paid for content but nevetheless i thought it would be an interesting venture then I saw today:
Digital TV channel BBC Four is to make the first live broadcast of a theatre performance for years.
Shakespeare's Richard II will be screened live from the Globe theatre in London - with viewers even able to listen to a commentary by a theatre critic.
The event, to be aired on 7 September, will be "a very risky, very exciting project for us", the channel's controller Roly Keating said.
The station was not sure if it was a television first - but it has not been attempted for many years.
The suggestion from this is that it would be quite difficult to deliver, although quite why its very risky is beyond me. After all the BBC reguarly broadcasts live events from sports, to Royal occasions and concerts.
Still I'm going to keep the idea and see whether it could be done another time.
Posted by Paul Goodison at September 1, 2003 10:08 PM | TrackBack