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BBC ANNOUNCES GRAND THEFT AUTO DRAMA (UPDATED)

12/3/2015

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As if the BBC didn't already have enough trouble on its hands with driving-based TV shows on BBC2, the corporation has announced plans for a BBC2 drama based upon Grand Theft Auto.

It may sound like a premature April Fool's joke - but all it's part of the BBC's new Make It Digital initiative, which will also give a coding device to every Year 7 child in the country (who, it's worth pointing out, are too young to play GTA... officially).

The BBC's Make It Digital Initiative takes its cue from the BBC Computer Literacy Project that the corporation ran in the early 80s.

The press blurb reads exactly like this: "BBC Make it Digital will capture the spirit of the BBC Micro, which helped Britain get to grips with the first wave of personal computers in the 1980s, for the digital age. It will put digital creativity in the spotlight like never before, and help build the nation’s digital skills, through an ambitious range of new programmes, partnerships and projects."


Among the announced projects are:

  • A major partnership to develop and give a ‘Micro Bit’ coding device to all year 7 children across the UK for free to inspire a future generation - 1 million devices in total
  • A season of programmes and online activity involving the BBC’s biggest and best-loved brands, including Doctor Who, EastEnders, Radio 1, The One Show, Children in Need, BBC Weather and many more, including a new BBC Two drama based on Grand Theft Auto and a documentary on Bletchley Park
  • The Make it Digital Traineeship to create life-changing opportunities for up to 5,000 young unemployed people, the largest traineeship of its kind
  • Partnerships with around 50 major organisations across the UK, including Apps for Good, ARM, Barclays, British Computing Society, BT, Code Club, DWP, Google, iDEA, Microsoft, Nesta, Samsung, Skills Funding Agency, Tech City UK, the Tech Partnership, TeenTech, Young Rewired State
  • A range of formal education activities and events, including Bitesize, Live Lessons and School Report

That's as far as it goes with regards to details about the GTA drama, but - for our money - it's stuff like this which justifies the BBC, and why we're staunch advocates of protecting the licence fee at all costs. Still, how they balance the honourable aims of the initiative with the more controversial elements of the GTA brand - whether the drama will focus on GTA as a cultural phenomenon, or set within the GTA world itself - is going to be interesting. 

Especially if they try to tackle the latter on a BBC budget, in a potentially post-Clarkson world...


UPDATE: Apparently, the drama will tell the tale of how Grand Theft Auto - a "British coding success story" - was conceived, and tackle the controversy it encountered.

3 Comments
Valery Nonk
12/3/2015 05:19:47 am

Now is the perfect time to release my gritty reboot of Geordie Racer

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Antony Adler
12/3/2015 05:27:01 am

Fantastic - the BBC initiative in the early 80s put Britain in a great position to develop digital skills, delighted to hear it's coming back (kinda).

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Wilb
12/3/2015 12:43:08 pm

@Nonk - I cannot wait.

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