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Philip Ralph

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Philip Ralph

@PhilipRalph9

Screenwriter. Recovering actor. Advocate for positive change in TV and the arts. Agent: Julia Tyrrell Mgt

Wales

Joined March 2021

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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
May 14
If you think you know this story... think again... An absolute privilege to be part of the team behind this film. Under Suspicion: Kate McCann Wednesday 20th May - 9pm on @channel5_tv
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Mar 1, 2024
🧵Today is the last day of filming @BBCDoctors A show that has run for 24 years, employed thousands of people, produced more than 4,500 episodes, will call ‘cut’ for the final time. As a writer on the show for the past 19 years I’m personally impacted along with hundreds 1/
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Oct 8, 2024
Classic TV shows that didn’t find their feet or reach their fullest potential until season 2 or beyond off the top of my head… Breaking Bad The West Wing (the Mandy situation… 😵‍💫) Seinfeld Curb Your Enthusiasm The Wire (controversial opinion, I know) Mad Men Others?????
Variety
@Variety
Oct 8, 2024
'Kaos' Canceled After One Season at Netflix variety.com/2024/tv/news/k…
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Nov 14, 2024
24 years 4555 episodes 425 writers 148 script editors 46 producers 9309 actors 175 directors 59 cinematographers 42 editors Hundreds and hundreds of crew, costume, make up, casting, drivers etc etc… Never doubt that TV drama can change lives. It changed mine. End of an era.
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Apr 24, 2024
Here’s the crisis in UK tv production in a nutshell - a massively successful, politically influential drama makes a loss of £1M because it won’t sell internationally… 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️ It’s long past time we rethink how we make TV at every level before high end drama is all that’s left…
Metro Entertainment
@Metro_Ents
Apr 24, 2024
ITV somehow made £1,000,000 loss on Mr Bates vs The Post Office despite incredible reaction trib.al/pO43rwU
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Mar 1, 2024
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by the disastrous decision to axe it. So, on this day when the show ceases production (though it will remain on screen until November) here is a🧵 into why I believe it matters that it’s been cancelled, who is ultimately responsible, and what comes next… 2/
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Mar 1, 2024
Replying to @PhilipRalph9
From its very inception, Doctors was a show that offered two crucial things that help to sustain a thriving industry: OPPORTUNITY and EXPERIENCE. 200+ episodes every year where new and seasoned creatives got the opportunity to work, learn, fail, experiment and play. 4/
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Mar 1, 2024
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Public viewing habits are changing, the streamers are taking ever bigger slices of the pie, but we all know that the reason the BBC is under so much pressure is because of the relentless, ideologically driven campaign of destruction by the incumbent Conservative government. 24/
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Mar 1, 2024
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Doctors filmed 200+ episodes every year, each one starring the regular cast plus up to 3 guest actors, each one written by a writer , each one made by a full production crew. Each one produced, shot, and edited in Birmingham. In one fell swoop, from today, all of that is gone.3/
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Mar 1, 2024
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if it provides a public service, then the Conservative government have systematically undermined it, defunded it, abused it, attacked it, accused it of bias or being ‘woke’, broken it into little pieces, sold it off to the lowest bidder – usually one of their mates... 27/
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Mar 1, 2024
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Over 600 guest actors every year likewise got the chance to work, be seen, renew their faith in their abilities, and keep going. A writing team of up to 60 writers crafted original, bonkers, moving, real (and often surreal!) stories based around the lives of our regulars. 5/
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Mar 1, 2024
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The TV industry is contracting. Production across the board is way down. BECTU recently surveyed its members and found 68% of them are currently out of work. Doctors was a much-needed ‘finger in the dam’ of this terrible situation. And now it’s gone with nothing to replace it. 8/
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Mar 1, 2024
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For the past 14 years, the Tories have waged all out war on the BBC, backed by their willing army of ‘bias accusers’, all desperate to close down this most diverse, progressive, complex, flawed yet still brilliant publicly funded service… 'To be continued...' 25/
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Philip Ralph
@PhilipRalph9
Mar 1, 2024
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They see the arts as a pastime of dilettantes and layabouts. That somehow everyone engaged in the arts is not a ‘hard working member of society’, is an ‘enemy of the people’ and should be stamped out. 31/
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