Kind of right up in their faces. She was arrested a few minutes ago and taken away in handcuffs. What you want to see is folks keeping their distance and standing, facing the police, that is great. You dont want to see anyone go up to them on purpose to provoke action. Police have ben really stoic in not reacting to whatever things are being said at them. If things are being thrown and weve seen some of that going onme onment. I dont know if we decided what that was, but it was basically to say keep away, a little poof something, protecting the perimeter or the no mans land between the police and the protesters. We havent gotten confirmation on exactly what it is, but we can understand your tactic and philosophy and approach, which is to say, hey,
keep your distance, dont come any closer. Were good with you being there exercising your First Amendment rights. You can say what you want, but dont throw things at us or come up to our faces and threaten us. Even with this escalated tension
layla said it perfectly. i have worked with layla at itv when we were both in commissioning there. you re playing your odds, aren t you? you re looking for some safe bets and you re looking to innovate. if someone presents something to you that is familiar, that will pr itself in the way that changing rooms has, or that have a ton of celebrities in, they are all shorthand, they are all shortcuts to get an audience to you. that doesn t. .. you ve still got to deliver the goods. your mention of money, i mean changing rooms this time around is made in partnership with a paint company, isn t it, which clearly would not be allowed on the bbc the first time around. did that make any difference when you were pitching it? yes, i think it definitely does. i absolutely don t think it s the only reason. look, i ve done a lot of ad funded programming. i commissioned it and i ve made it for a number
on both sides of the desk on this. yeah, i have. i mean, look, ithink layla said it perfectly. i have worked with layla at itv when we were both in commissioning there. you re playing your odds, aren t you? you re looking for some safe bets and you re looking to innovate. if someone presents something to you that is familiar, that will pr itself in the way that changing rooms has, or that have a ton of celebrities in, they are all shorthand, they are all shortcuts to get an audience to you. you ve still got to deliver the goods. your mention of money, i mean changing rooms this time around is made in partnership with a paint company, isn t it, which clearly would not be allowed on the bbc the first time around. did that make any difference when you were pitching it? yes, i think it definitely does. i absolutely don t think it s the only reason.
mark, you are in an interesting position on this, because you have both commissioned and pitched, so you ve sat on both sides of the desk on this. yeah, i have. i mean, look, ithink layla said it perfectly. i have worked with layla at itv when we were both in commissioning there. you re playing your odds, aren t you? you re looking for some safe bets and you re looking to innovate. if someone presents something to you that is familiar, that will pr itself in the way that changing rooms has, or that have a ton of celebrities in, they are all shorthand, they are all shortcuts to get an audience to you. that doesn t. .. you ve still got to deliver the goods. your mention of money, i mean changing rooms this time around is made in partnership with a paint company, isn t it, which clearly would not be allowed on the bbc the first time around. did that make any difference when you were pitching it? yes, i think it definitely does.
back an old format that is really back an old format that is really attract. mark you have both conditions and pitched, so you sit on the other side. yeah, i have. i think layla said it perfectly. you re looking at safe bets and looking to innovate. if someone presents something to you that is familiar, that will pr itself in the way that changing rooms has, or that have a ton of celebrities in, they are all shorthand, they are all shortcuts to get an audience to you. that doesn t. you ve still got to deliver the goods. your mention of money, changing rooms this time around is made in partnership with a paint company, isn t it, which would not be allowed on the bbc the first time around. did that make any difference when you were pitching it?