Sky Arts plans new plays but snubs playwrights

guardian.co.uk: "I'm always banging on about the dearth of single plays on television. So I suppose it has to be two cheers for Sky Arts, who plan to show a season of six half-hour plays live, hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Some good names are involved: Fiona Laird and John Alderton among the directors, Michael Dobbs and Nicci French among the writers and Pauline Collins as one of the performers. It still doesn't address the problem that, thanks to a gutless BBC, a whole generation has grown up never having seen a Shakespeare, Shaw, Stoppard or Pinter play on TV. But at least it's a start."