'The vast majority of us … never see any violence' … John Banville has criticised the raft of violent crime dramas on TV. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA
The Booker prize-winning author John Banville, who has killed off at least his fair share of fictional creations when writing under his crime novelist pseudonym of Benjamin Black, has hit out at violent crime dramas on television, saying that a murdered human is a "tragic thing", and that "crime writers have a duty to observe this".
Banville was speaking to the Radio Times, telling the magazine of his concerns about "just how violent" crime series on television are today. "I mean, they nearly all start off with some young woman being raped and murdered and cut up and thrown in a dustbin," said Banville, whose own novels have been adapted for television as Quirke, starring Gabriel Byrne as the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue.
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Banville was speaking to the Radio Times, telling the magazine of his concerns about "just how violent" crime series on television are today. "I mean, they nearly all start off with some young woman being raped and murdered and cut up and thrown in a dustbin," said Banville, whose own novels have been adapted for television as Quirke, starring Gabriel Byrne as the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue.
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And while the body count in TV /movie dramas increases, the body count in real life is steadily falling. In the greater Los Angeles area the homicide rate is now about a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s.
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