What was the hardest part about making the mini-series a reality?
10K was a very hard production in many ways, but for me the hardest part was to keep changing the format and size of the story as we tried to persuade different broadcasters to make the series. I have talked before about how the series began as a feature film, but even after I wrote it as a TV series, it was conceived as 9 single hours, set in London (and a BBC hour is 60 minutes, not 42 minutes as it is in America with all the adverts), then cut down and moved around many times into different mini-series formats. I wrote the series to have cliff-hanger endings, and every time you change the format you end up with massive problems, as the climax takes place in the middle of the episode! Sky TV in the UK, for instance, broadcast the mini-series as single 45 minute episodes – another complete re-edit and rethink of the concept!
