Originally Posted by seiko456:
“Dear STV
We don't care about most of the crap dramas that were never broadcast 18 months ago, as stated, all would be happy with you S4 Doc martin, S1 DA, backloge of midsummers and of course Law and order were all broadcast,
BIDIE-IN Whitechapel S2 has been seen in STV land so we got two series .
What happened to the STV - ITV partnership and everyone working together? I still like the opt outs but STV not got the mixed just right just yet, I understand we in stv will never get every single ITV drama going ( I dont care for some either ) but I think stv needs to think about which ones there should be actually dropping.”
Hi Seiko.
I must have missed Whitechapel 2 - maybe I am so used to STV letting me down, I assume things are not being shown.
Until STV make a new drama series all on their own, I will refuse to give viewing time to their homegrown tripe - Vet School being the exception because they have to film, edit and narrate that and it is both homegrown and new. It also has potential to sell to other networks. But STV's idea of "homegrown" is cut and paste clip shows made for peanuts. They are fooling no one.
Lorraine Kelly - who constantly beats the drum for STV - wrote in one of her Scottish newspaper articles that she hoped "Scotland's Greatest Team" would result in 'watercooler moments' - people standing around in offices discussing who should be in the 'team'. The only conversations you tend to hear about STV programmes is "who on earth made this crap and what happened to the decent dramas?"
Yet the same Lorraine, with no irony whatever, picked series 1 of Downton as her favourite programme of 2010. A show STV denied its viewers until a panic u-turn before series 2 was shown.
Seems to me the people who support STV's opt outs are the same ones who can access the lost series in the comfort of their own homes. They have no idea what it is like for the little old lady who sits down with a small sherry for Midsomer and gets Underbelly......