Jiří Hubač dies at 82

Czech dramatist and scriptwriter Jiří Hubač has died at 82. Mr. Hubač spent much of his life working for Czech Television from which he was dismissed in 1974 for political reasons. In later years he established himself as a successful free-lance writer. He is best known for his plays Unripe Raspberries (adapted for the theatre as The Good Old Band), The Fall of Icarus and Migrant Birds. Hubač authored a number of popular television series including Three Blokes in a Cottage and Eliška and her Family, Good Water and Ambulance. He also wrote the script for the feature films Dance Teacher (1994) and Fanny (1995).