T.W.
Wednesday 5th August 2009 10:55pm
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Of producers. From the current issue of Private Eye...
'It used to be the basic job of a BBC producer to come up with ideas and turn them into programmes. Indeed, the ability to do this was considered crucial when candidates for jobs were boarded.
But now, producers incapable of coming up with ideas are no longer to be discriminated against. A new team of "creative facilitators" has been, er, created, "to find inspirational solutions for programme makers suffering from the deepest creative block".
They have already set up sessions to help hapless producers come up with ideas for the coverage of the Olympics: "They begin by asking participants for a favourite memory: a race, an opening ceremony, anything to help ease them into the topic." And for the severely challenged: "People are often asked to bring something to the session which could be used as an icebreaker - from CDs to Lego."'