Letters • January 04 2004

Salvu Mallia and ‘Delitti F’Malta’

Salvu Mallia
Bugibba

I would like to make it very clear to all those televiewers who have been enjoying my work, both as a script writer and director in the highly successful television drama, ‘Delitti f’Malta’ on PBS, that due to disagreements with the production house I have resigned my post. As from episode 12, featuring the murder of Grezz Attard (Bormla, December 1928), others are responsible both for the scripting and the directing as can be ascertained from the credits.
It is unfortunate that, as soon as I resigned, the production house tried to diminish the importance of my dedicated work in those episodes – against all professional ethics – by reducing the exposure of my name as writer/director in the credits, featuring it less prominently than that of the extras.
Today, after viewing episode 12, transmitted Monday 29. December 2003 I feel compelled, to protect the good reputation I have always enjoyed in this field, both as a writer and as a director, to publicly disassociate myself both from the scripting and directing of aforementioned teleserial as from episode 12 onwards.