Theatre 625
anthology
['sf', 'chamber opera', 'electropop', 'gothic metal', 'ranchera', 'wine', 'grape', 'war film', 'epos', 'public art', 'mockbuster', 'stoner rock', 'carnatic music', 'satiric', 'spy film', 'gregorian', 'norse gods', 'dark comedy', 'historiographical metafiction', 'psychology', 'hardcore', 'situation comedies', 'chamber music', 'instrumental rock', 'vocal house', 'political satire', 'cautionary tale', 'popular music', 'slashers', 'equestrian', 'life simulation', 'alternative rock', 'crime drama', 'classical', 'educational television', 'sleaze rock', 'vanitas', 'east coast rappers', 'folksong', 'kung fu film', 'blues music', 'police procedurals', 'indie pop', 'liquid funk', 'action film', 'indie folk', 'tone poem', 'nerdcore', 'krautrock', 'history painter', 'idm', 'choro', 'detective story', 'collectible card games', 'gangsta rap', 'tv', 'romanticism', 'text adventure game', 'shock rock', 'alternative cartoonist', 'interactive fiction', 'mathematics', 'futurepop', 'photography', 'reality series', 'rancheras', 'avant rock', 'ambient', 'surrealist', 'police procedural', 'melodic hardcore', 'travel documentary', 'vedute', 'norse mythology', 'mmofps', 'novelist', 'high fantasy', 'exergaming', 'shoegazing', 'christian contemporary', 'formula one', 'docudrama', 'metallic hardcore', 'opera seria', 'baroque music', 'propaganda', 'dance film', 'disaster movie', 'king arthur', 'alternative music', 'edm', 'grime', 'romantic film', 'prog', 'minigolf', 'soap series', 'soft rock', 'western films', 'horizontal shooter']
Graeme MacDonald
Graeme Patrick David MacDonald (30 July 1930 – 30 September 1997), known as Graeme MacDonald and sometimes credited as Graeme McDonald or Graham McDonald, was a British television producer and executive. MacDonald began his career in 1960 as a trainee director at Granada Television. In 1966 he joined the BBC, becoming a producer in the drama department, working particularly on anthology play series such as The Wednesday Play (for which he produced some of Dennis Potter's early work), Thirty-Minute Theatre, and Theatre 625. In the 1970s he became the producer of the single play strand Play for Today, the successor to The Wednesday Play, during which he worked on many acclaimed pieces, such as Jack Rosenthal's Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976). By this time one of the senior producers working in the BBC's drama department, in 1977 he was promoted to become the Head of Serials. This department was merged with the Series department in 1979, and MacDonald became head of the new larger Series & Serials department which ensued. In 1981, he was promoted again to succeed Shaun Sutton as the overall Head of Drama at BBC Television. MacDonald became the Controller of BBC 2 in 1983, the first ever BBC channel controller to come from a background in the drama department. He was controller of the channel until 1987 (combining it with his Head of Drama role until he left this post in 1985), during which the Zircon affair erupted surrounding an edition of the Secret Society documentary series due to be shown on the channel. MacDonald left the BBC in 1987 and became chief executive of Anglia Films (1988-94) and later Ardent Productions (1994-97).