Are there departments in television production reserved for the specialist skill of padding out slender lines of inquiry with festoons of platitudes, echoing rhetorical questions and tenuously related footage? The art of a padmeister was visible in all its splendour in last week’s glut of royal wedding build-up programmes.
03 May 2018, The Tablet
More Grimm than Disney: the royal wedding
Julie Etchingham and Trevor McDonald
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