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...Japanese, television in essence means NHK, the world's largest, richest and most diverse public broadcasting network. Although there are 99 commercial stations around the country affiliated with the five major stations in Tokyo, the noncommercial NHK is watched as much as all the others combined. Like the BBC, NHK subsists on collection fees: 30.4 million subscriber homes pay $41 each year, giving NHK more than $1.24 billion to work with. The fee is optional, but almost no one refuses to make the donation...
...contacts with citizens are often monitored, and authorities sometimes react strongly to reporters who displease them. Last year officials temporarily lifted the credentials of a New York Times correspondent; in January the government expelled a U.P.I. reporter on charges of obtaining military intelligence and denied a visa to a BBC correspondent to protest statements made in a documentary...
...Hamlisch based on the life and death of Jean Seberg.) Ben Kingsley, the R.S.C. stalwart who won an Oscar playing Gandhi, has brought his one-man show on 19th century Actor Edmund Kean to the West End. Griff Rhys Jones, who mugged his way to TV celebrity on the BBC's Not the Nine O'clock News, is conducting a valiant but vain effort to revive the corpse of Charley's Aunt. Most of the cast treats this 1892 farce as reverently as if they were playing Westminster Abbey; Rhys Jones, dressed for most of the play...
...climax of Clark's career, though not of his talents as a writer, came with Civilisation, the 13-part series that he wrote and narrated for the BBC in 1969. When Civilisation first appeared in England, the reviews were respectful, on the whole, but tepid. Among art historians, there was a good deal of scorn for its generalizations. Many television people thought it an oldfashioned, static affair, hobbled by Clark's unbudgeable penchant for writing scripts that were really slide lectures, with the narrator too much in view-"I am standing in front of the Cathedral...
...shape of cultural TV itself. In this, everyone was wrong. If it had not been for Civilisation, none of the didactic series that came after it, starting with Jacob Bronowski's Ascent of Man and Alistair Cooke's America, would have been made. What clinched the BBC's enthusiasm for the large format was the American market. Nobody in England in 1969 could possibly have foreseen how America would take Lord Clark of Civilisation to its heart...