Hi Amy
Apologies for posting in the wrong space. I have read with interest the thread that you directed me towards, and I hear loud and clear your concerns and scepticism. You are right that television can, at times, take a one-dimensional approach to things - but it also offers the chance to go deeper, and to challenge peoples' pre-conceptions. The hurdle we face as programme-makers is that in order to tell those deeper stories, the stories that people like you rightly feel we should be telling, we need access to individuals through who we can tell them. And that - as you will understand - is often easier said than done.
What we know is that there is a big interest at a network for a programme that revolves around escorting. But I'd be open to a conversation about the shape of that programme, because without the involvement of experts who add the extra layers of insight, what you're left with is the ideas of "some media company".
And yes, you are right that Knickerbockerglory made 'Jodie Marsh on The Game'. If we got it so wrong last time, the question is 'how now do we get it right'? I can assure you that making an 'atrocity' is not something that any of us set out to do!
Nic