“It is our role to look after the whole lot and not make those judgments that Mr & Mrs is not worth keeping.”
“Where I come from in Scotland, the one TV programme that was made by Border telly was Mr & Mrs … that was their claim to fame and in 200 years’ time Mr & Mrs needs to be there.
Stewart said the BFI was not there to decide which programmes deserved to be saved on the basis of quality – even Derek Batey’s Mr & Mrs could be in there.
One is that all UK film productions will be encouraged to adopt BFI diversity standards.