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Netflix and iTunes are becoming the main outlets for the best comedy writing because television commissioners "won't even talk about taking risk", according to the producer of Blackadder and Not the Nine O'Clock News.
John Lloyd said that online channels were quick, cheap and allowed creativity to thrive. By contrast, "the TV route to market is so complicated and involves so many layers. Fear drives that whole process, fear of making a mistake."
He went on: "I am a believer in the market. If audiences want good stuff, they'll get it and you can see the beginnings of that in amazing things like Game of Thrones and House of Cards."
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