Sir Tony Robinson: TV is changing, not dead

Sir Tony Robinson has said he is not a “defeatist” who believes that television is dead, but he warned that it needs keep adapting to stay relevant.

The actor and presenter believes he has “the best job in the world” which he “wouldn’t change for an instant”.

Sir Tony said: “It’s great that I still feel as interested, as inspired by it and as ambitious for my medium as I did when I first went into it as a little kid.”

Speaking about his career beginning in the 1970s, the Blackadder star, 71, said: “As soon as you stop growing and changing, you might as well pack up. When I started a television camera weighed about the same as the Isle of Wight there’s so much we can do now that we’ve never been able to 0 The Blackadder star has not given up on TV

do. I could make a television programme all on my own, really, with my phone.

“As long as we need access and as long as television can operate. I am certainly not one of those defeatists that believes ‘Oh television is dead; we’re just going to look at stuff in our own time on laptops now’.”