Michael Parkinson has criticised TV execs for failing to take risks when it comes to inviting music stars onto TV shows, saying they are too obsessed with chart toppers. In an interview with GCap's jazz station theJazz he recalled how he once featured a then unknown Duke Ellington on one of his shows, adding: "Nowadays if you suggest somebody like that, they say 'Ooh I don't know ... who? What's he done?' It's sad. There's a generation of people running broadcasting, running television particularly, nowadays who have no musical culture beyond that which exists in the top 10". He's right you know.
Sep 17, 2007
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Parkinson says TV bosses should take more musical risks
Michael Parkinson says TV executives are too focused on chart acts and lack musical culture, recalling booking Duke Ellington early in his career.