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In my opinion, the BBC are one of the best producers of drama in the world, and it made me incredibly happy to get the opportunity to be one of the leading men in one of their productions.

The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.

When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.

I've done a lot of period dramas, but I love modern productions, too.

We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home.

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.