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• Very early on, I determined not to let other people's lack of imagination define my life.
• TV bosses rely on revelations about the private lives of their stars to hook an audience.
• Television has thrown in the towel. It rarely even pays lip service to its once brave mission to educate and illuminate. Instead it gives us what we want, in much the same vein as the doctors who handed out Valium like Smarties to desperate Sixties housewives.