In the neverending saga of Beck (1996) all I can gather is that the BBC don't own distribution rights anymore. I'm not sure how to find out who does (I asked the BBC, but who knows if they have any idea themselves). Maybe Getty do, but they never did confirm that. I think they wanted my money first.
I put up an appeal on Reddit. No response.
I asked if anyone remembered the show on a 'Do You Remember the '90s?' forum. No response.
I emailed Amanda Redman's agency. Got a bounce back. (Oh for the days of fansites and postal fan clubs.*)
I do draw the line at using facebook or twitter for anything beyond looking - simply because the fake fb profile would be too much effort and I'm not using my real one, and because nothing, not even this obsessive quest, will induce me to sign up to twitter.
HOWEVER. If any of you lot who have expressed support for me in this wanted to ask around on twitter I'd be very happy for you to do so. I set up a separate blog, @joplinsibtainappreciation to bring all these posts together. I'll reblog the one about Beck there, and I know a few people have already tried to spread the word on here a bit, for which, thank you!!
Maybe the next stage is becoming an investigative journalist so that when I send people nosy emails I can say I'm writing a piece for Medium or whatever and they'll be more willing to actually engage.
*I used wayback machine to check out the defunct website for the Amanda Redman fan page, but Beck was never on the CV they gave her there, which implies it dropped off everyone's radar pretty damned quickly, though it IS on her current CV at her agency.
