 Neither Kneale nor Cartier were impressed with the state in which they found BBC television drama . At his initial job interview with Michael Barry , Cartier had criticised the department 's output as being too sedate and theatrical , while Kneale was frustrated at what he saw as the slow and boring styles of television drama production then employed , which he felt wasted the potential of the medium . Together they would help to revolutionise British television drama and establish it as an entity separate from its theatre and radio equivalents ; the television historian Lez Cooke wrote in 2003 that " Between them , Kneale and Cartier were responsible for introducing a completely new dimension to television drama in the early to mid @-@ 1950s . " Jason Jacobs , a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Warwick , wrote in his 2000 history of early British television drama that " It was the arrival of Nigel Kneale ... and Rudolph Cartier ... that challenged the intimate drama directly ... Kneale and Cartier shared a common desire to invigorate television with a faster tempo and a broader thematic and spatial canvas , and it was no coincidence that they turned to science @-@ fiction in order to get out of the dominant stylistic trend of television intimacy . " 
