Review Show Axed
Ethel_Fred
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Well what a surprise, take a weekly half hour programme on BBC2, make it a monthly show on BBC4 and express shock when it loses 80℅ of it's audience
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Ethel_Fred
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26771323
More "accessible", i.e. stupid.
So those Dr Who concerts will seem high-brow in a few years time...
Political newspeak, expect the opposite.
Them were the days. Really sad about this. I wonder if the Edinburgh Festival coverage will be slimmed as a result?
Inevitable. IIRC I said asmuch at the time.
And if we track back the lineage we used to have a half-hour weekday arts/culture programme with The Late Show on BBC2 after Newsnight (which is what spawned The Review Show).
The new heads of arts programming was on The Media Show yesterday (convenient how this announcement came after that...) and despite being pushed he point-blank refused to discuss the budget for Yentob`s Imagine. I "imagine" it`s a bloody fortune and sucks up money that could have gone to other shows such as Review!
More soundbites from Tassium.:D
Did you not read the links provided for you yesterday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26728704
Performances from Glyndebourne and Shakespeare's Globe will also be aired.
the team behind The Hollow Crown will reunite to create filmed versions of Shakespeare's Henry VI and Richard III plays.
The Story of Women and Art as well as news coverage celebrating the winners of the Man Booker and Riba Stirling architecture prizes.
A celebration of Museums at Night, an after-hours festival involving more than 500 museums, galleries and heritage sites
A relaunch for The Space, the BBC's collaboration with Arts Council England
"Major" coverage of the Edinburgh Festivals, including a performance every day online
An "online partnership" with the Royal Academy in London focusing on its 2014 summer exhibition
Programmes planned include A Knight at the Barbican, a BBC Four evening dedicated to the work of English conductor Sir Simon Rattle, and Dialogues, a new drama strand for BBC Four focusing on just two characters.
There will also be a "new take" on Civilisation, the landmark 13-part series about the history of western art that originally aired on BBC Two in 1969, and a two-part Imagine documentary on BBC One on US novelist Philip Roth
Other programmes include an animated film by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo and a Northern Ballet version of Three Little Pigs for the CBeebies channel
Yeah. I used to like it when Germaine Greer was on. Like Paulin she hated everything!
A fairly short list of arts programming, to be shown over the coming year, does not excuse the axing of BBCs only decent arts review show.
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/the-bbc-not-to-axe-the-review-show-on-bbc-4
Thanks, have signed
I'm not signing that. Not because I don't approve of the arts, but because I don't believe the Beeb shouldn't be shoving it into one tiny monthly episode. It's a disgrace that the channel can't even find half an hour a week in its schedule for a serious arts discussion show. All of the faff that they put on throughout the week, and they can't pick out half an hour? It's not as though it can be particularly expensive to do... A monthly show is not on regularly enough to build up support and retain audiences - it's far too easy to miss. It should be weekly or nothing.
If the BBC expects us all to pay for its programming, it should be doing far more than it currently does to promote arts. People complain bitterly about Murdoch and Sky, but the Sky Arts channels do at least offer quality fare for people who believe culture should be rather more prized than it is.
If the Beeb can't even make a tiny concession to the arts in the shape of a weekly arts discussion show (and I don't count The Culture Show there), they should do without the licence fee altogether, and fight it out for ratings winners with the commercial channels.
Me too. I remember that incarnation of the show.
I really don't understand what they're playing at scrapping it. Do they really think a show like that is intended to reap in huge ratings anyway?
You'd think that BBC4 would be a safe place for it wouldn't you? Surely it costs peanuts to make as well. Furthermore I don't understand why they're axing it when programmes on BBC4 surely aren't expected to bring in big ratings anyway are they?
I thought the BBC was about producing diverse programming which appeals to all sorts and serves a function, rather than being about chasing ratings.
There must be loads of short, quiet little programmes scattered here and there throughout the schedules. Are they all expected to perform like 'The Voice' now?
Surely there's room for small programmes, it's not all about ratings is it?
What in same of sweet christ is so hard about that?
As for "ambitious plans": what could be more ambitious than to remove every trace of it?
Unfortunately it seems to be evermore so. Putting it on to BBC 4 lost most of these ratings, obviously, so they saw that as justification.
10pm until midnight is too late? I believe that's actually considered a good slot, you can get away with more. They really can't schedule based on people being at work, otherwise nothing would be available until 5pm... oh and what about the people who work nights? Can't let them miss anything, so we can't start at 5 either. Oh heavens.
Get your head out of your backside, scheduling changes, at least the drama is still on and if you think 10-12 at night is too late, you must be over 80.
My point is though, is the vast majority of programmes on BBC 4 won't get high ratings either. What's the difference? Why does this gets canned opposed to some programme like 'Canal Walks', 'The Golden Age of Canals', or 'The Golden Age of Coach Travel'?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/bbc-arts-release
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/speeches/2014/dg-bbc-arts
Ha ha! That was a dream line-up. Even the normally irritating Tony Parsole was good. I was furious when the BBC deliberately killed it. Heck, it's not as though the BBC is brimming over with serious discussion of cultural matters, it it?
Then it became familiar with different faces such as Morley, Churchwell and Bonnie Greer.
Far too chummy and too much low brow reviewing.
Oh, and on too little.
Sarah Churchwell - The thinking man`s Ryan Conner (adult warning if you google her!).