Disappointed by today’s TV shows, Megacles Vidyadis appears in an interview with Smile and Again.
The well-known television director describes them as sloppy, unnaturally long and based on voices, irritation and artificial melodrama for the sole purpose of ratings.
“I’d rather have my peace and quiet than this racket going on. Because it’s about noise. There are no shows today which would interest me that is. It’s a bit of a racket, in quotes and out of quotes.
To be honest, viewers don’t watch much TV like they used to. First of all, there’s no show that’s under three hours, it’s unnatural,” Megaklis Vidyadis says initially.
Would he direct George Liagas on “Proino” if he were given a large fee?
“What would I direct? What topic? There are five guys who say whatever comes to them, the other one gets upset, says things to create an atmosphere so strange, write the forms, the known ones! Everybody does that,” he replies.
“I was not one of the cheap ones. I was one of the expensive ones. I don’t hide that, but I wasn’t just expensive, I was also a declared expensive taxpayer. I have never evaded taxes,” admits Megaklis Vidyadis.
“In Pame Packet there was a melodrama, so to speak, a melodrama style, a crying, a crying like this and so on. That had to come out. This show got to the point of coming up with what I said before. “This is what sells,” which is the crying. And that’s what they’re going for today. To shout, to get angry, to make a situation because they believe that this is what sells,” concludes Megaklis Vidyadis.
