New Fields for the Writer

Excerpt from New Fields for the Writer

The first impulse Of anyone preparing to experiment in tele vision programs is to fall down on his knees and thank heaven (and a few hundred dramatic writers) for the one act play. Without being too sure of the ultimate nature of television programs, the experimenter assumes that the drama in one form or another will be an important element; and at once he shrinks back from the unpleasant necessity of compressing the contemporary full-length play to his requirements.