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Monty Python Crowd; Half Of Them Came From Cambridge, And Half Of Them Came From Oxford. But, There Seems To Be This Jewel, This Sort Of Two Headed Tradition Of Doing Comedy, Of Doing Sketches, And That Kind Of Thing.

It Is Very Linear Storytelling, And I Think That's Not So Much The Fashion. I Was Watching A New Drama The Other Night Which Was Extremely Non-linear, Where You Flash Back And Flash Forward In Ways That Certainly Keeps You On Your Toes As The Audience. There's Not Much Of That Courage With The Storytelling In Our Maigret Film.

We Still Have A Tradition Certainly In English Television; It's Faded A Bit In The Last Five Years, But We Still Have A Tradition Where The Important Thing Is The Quality And The Challenging Nature Of The Programming.

Apart From The Fact That Your Physical Ability Starts To Decline, I Also Think Someone In Their Fifties Being Childlike Becomes A Little Sad. You've Got To Be Careful.

Certainly In The Second Film [maigret's Dead Man], Which Is Quite A More Unpleasant And Darker Story, It's Quite Different In Tone And Feel.