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British television drama budget falls by almost 50% in 7 years
mike65
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While I don't think the news that there is much less home made drama on the main channels is a shock that the budget has fallen 44% and the output in hours by 41% shows just how bad things are and why the prime time slots are increasingly full of cheaper so called "reality" formats and lightweight documentaries.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/02/uk-tv-drama-budgets-slashed-bbc-itv-channel-4
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/02/uk-tv-drama-budgets-slashed-bbc-itv-channel-4
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33360707
Holding on to this old fashioned idea of taking £3.7 billion off people to make programmes most of the people will never bother to watch is just a total waste of money. It's no longer BBC vs ITV like the old days.
It's BBC vs everything the internet and technology has to offer. So its unrealistic to expect people to give up everything else they love and sit around the TV with their family like its 1972 again.
How do the commercial channels keep their licences? That's what I'd like to know.
Have they ever made anything similar to those examples?
I remember back when ITV and C4 had an investment in making such programmes.
It demonstrates how much we do need a PSB who isn't concerned with purely commercial concerns (IIRC ITV dropped most of it's kids programming when they stopped being able to show adverts for things like frosties, Sunny D, and toys during it).
off top of my head ....... tipping the velvet (mild erotica but for lesbian minority), oranges not the only fruit with notorious underage sex scene ..... hmmm, thats more lesbian action .... poldark recently which some saw as a "woman pleaser" (the original doesnt mention oiled male torsos and sixpacks) ...... this be not my glass of tea but im sure there is stuff ....... unfortunately, mary whitehouse left us some years ago, she was a great guide on what to watch, if she complained then it was worth a look .......
.......... "ever"? I certainly remember Cassanova, the 50 shades of its time, now free on youtube ........ just had a scroll, there is some mild nudity although made in 71 wd u believe .....
ITV is more or less handed theirs these days , ITV seem to make hardly any drama any more compared to the old days , you will probably get one drama on a Sunday and maybe on one other night but recently other than a Sunday night there has been sod all drama on weekdays during prime time ( apart from Doc Martin repeats on a Friday)
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/psb-review-3/statement/PSB_Review_3_Statement.pdf
No, it should be cut to just £95 and the BBC just make do.
...and how does this benefit the nation? We need to understand that taking money out isn't the answer. Invest is the only way.
Some reality TV can be repeated, have you not seen ITV Be's schedule?
And you say that like advertisers want all ages, the generally accepted theory is that advertisers want shows that skew younger, and as I understand it, young women is a demographic they especially want. This happens to a far worse extent in the US though, where a show with 10m viewers can be justifiably cancelled purely because it only appeals to older people.
The private sector takes care of most of our needs, the BBC should only make the "public service" crap that nobody wants to see.
I disagree totally. The private sector does not take care of our needs nor should it. The private sector is all about 'do it as cheaply as possible to maximise profit'. Not acceptable.
The words of a barbarian.
If you weren't watching, they wouldn't be making. It may not be about the public's needs, but it's certainly about their wants...
?….. It couldn't have been any different in 1992. Even 2002 was very similar.