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It's a, it's a very different world, publishing, and I, I sort of...

TV's quite cutthroat, and when you work on those big series like Holby or something, you're pretty low down the pecking order, and there's a lot of inter- interference in your writing.

So my script editor would make some notes and change things, and then the producer would d- make cuts and change things and, and none of this is like, none of this is run past me.

Exec producer does the same, director does the same, and then the actors get hold of it, and they'll say, "Well, I've got a much better line of dialogue than that." And so I would...

used to watch my episodes go out and think that bears very little that doesn't really resemble the script that I sort of wrote in the first place and it can be frustrating if you feel that they haven't really it's got worse or something so but yeah in terms of like creative control obviously I can that's the other thing is you know I can have a helicopter landing on the sea and a boat chase round Anglesey and not have anyone coming in saying well we can't afford any of that because it's a book so that's kind of the fun bit

Tell us about the Marshall of Snowdonia and the new series.

So Frank Marshall is a retired detective, but North Wales detective.