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Charlie Beckett

October 14th, 2008

Time to garage the road movies?

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Charlie Beckett

October 14th, 2008

Time to garage the road movies?

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

snow460.jpgfry_weekend_l_1.jpgMy old colleague Jon Snow is about to tour America in a very nice yellow convertible for Channel 4’s Dispatches. He will have to be careful not to bump into Stephen Fry who drove a London taxi around every state in the union for the BBC. What is about TV producers that they have to use the road movie as a vehicle to explore the USA?

borat.jpgI would have thought that the genre passed into pastiche following Borat‘s adventures. At least Simon Schama managed to walk around a bit for his pieces to camera. But then his is more of a history programme (and very good TV it is, too – not a good book, however) so perhaps he should have employed a Wells Fargo Stagecoach.

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