French Connection

Describes the current state of television (and some other media) in France. The public sector part of it seems to be in difficulty.

French Connection

Peter Fiddick

A couple of years ago, above a Simon Jenkins column in the Times musing on the long British love affair with France, an illustration by Richard Willson showed a family of Brits surveying everyones vision of an archetypal French landscape hillside village, expansive river valley, rolling woodlands. It isnt advertising anything, darling, the mother was saying to her son. Its just France.

France is different, not just for the British, who have been buying into it in growing numbers in these years of the strong pound, but also, across three decades, for the...

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