This is Greg Heathcote, head of all things post-production at Touchdown back then, and my boss at the time.

The Player was...

I can't even really begin to think what we were thinking.

Originally, because it was for Sky One, Sky were trying to follow Sky One in the UK.

So that was the environment in which the show emerged.

I worked on the first episode.

So I remember that quite clearly.

And then Yeah, and all the cameras, yeah, there were cameras in their apartment, but they were all on a wide shot, apart from the fact that, you know, if you go and move the cameras, so...