Platform Papers 21: Television, What Will Rate in the New Tomorrow?

The tribal coldfire in the living room, the unblinking eye of surveillance, the medium of the everyman, is showing its age. Assailed by the internet and cable, blunted by the lowest common denominator, television swings from psychotic violence to being more ordinary than real life. Yet, it still has the power to cut through, inform and inspire. What’s driving it? Ian David has some questions and answers; and draws attention to the talents behind the new technology that could change the faces and voices on our TV screen—even the TV itself.