Willis says majority of American TV is 'dross'

Former United Productions chief executive John Willis has hit out at suggestions that the US is leading the way in the creation of quality TV programmes, claiming American TV schedules are a 'cultural desert' filled with a 'huge amount of dross', writes Colin Robertson

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