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Post by kitkat1971 on Jul 12, 2015 15:10:58 GMT
Right... I give in... What's PSB...? Public Service Broadcasting.
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Post by Charley Says... on Jul 12, 2015 15:33:27 GMT
See... It all makes sense now... redface4
m1323
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Post by wallis on Jul 12, 2015 15:37:13 GMT
See... It all makes sense now... redface4
m1323 I'm with you on this one Charley.
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Post by kitkat1971 on Jul 12, 2015 16:39:18 GMT
I started studying for a media Studies Degree at Birkbrut 20 years ago and actually wrote a 5.000 word essay on the pros and cons of PSB. Got a distinction for it!
TV was a very different place though, even as re
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2015 18:50:37 GMT
British tv is far superior than US telly. I can`t recall one American show that I watch apart from local news. I love Australian telly too.
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Post by markxist on Jul 15, 2015 13:55:07 GMT
I was discussing something similar with Kate (Kitkat) the other day. Nowadays broadcasters be they BBC, ITV or 4 find a ratings grabber and drive it into the ground or try to replicate it in some form or other. They use shows like brand names now which makes for sloppy writing in the long run. Look at Call The Midwife, it's still good granted but it's no surprise Jessica Raine jumped ship when they asked her to sign on for a further 5 years, having already done 3 years. She clearly didn't want to be tied down to that role and didn't feel the show could keep up the quality almost ten years down the line. All too often they treat programmes like furniture there to sit in the schedules rather than remain fresh and yet, perversely, if a show doesn't hit the ratings as well as they hoped for straight away they bury it. Years ago, a successful show would run until the cast or crew got tired and left and there'd be another programme ready to take its place that fitted a roughly similar criteria. Nowadays, if someone leaves they just replace rather than put it out of its misery. The problem with this is that nothing new actually comes up in its place and shows like Waterloo Road, Casualty etc end up outstaying their welcome long after they've ran out of things to say whereas in the past shows would move on, from Dixon of Dock Green to Z Cars, Z Cars to Juliet Bravo, Juliet Bravo to Casualty. 30 years down the line we still have Casualty occupying the Saturday night slot - whilst its natural successor City Central was killed off after just three series in the late 90s. We just don't have the same freshness of ideas any more. Anything bold and new, which naturally will take a while to find an audience, simply isn't allowed to any more and that's why we've just lost Sky One's excellent Critical after just one series - and the petition to get it a 2nd season is here www.change.org/p/sky-tv-bring-back-critical
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Post by kitkat1971 on Jul 15, 2015 14:51:34 GMT
Things being buried when not imediate hits is a real problem. Look at how they've treated the new Anna Friel thing. They put the first episode out against the last episode of the BBC1 drama that had been airing for several weeks (can't remember it's name now), the sheridan Smith drama on ITV and HUMANS on Ch4 which had been extensively trailed and has got the highest ratings for the channel for years. What did they expect the ratings to be? But now they've stopped trailing it, giving it any PR and pushing the repeat further and further back in the schedules.
Something like Only Fools and Horses would never be given a chance to knock off the rough edges and build an audience now in the way it was in the early 80s.
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Post by markxist on Jul 15, 2015 15:44:18 GMT
Odyssey yeah, it really didn't stand a chance with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell concluding, Humans and Black Work all in the 9pm slot. I saw the first double bill and found it a bit ho hum but even so, they make a rod for their own backs putting everything on at the same time which is becoming an increasing irritation for me. You go days and days without anything on of an evening and then they shove everything out at the same time!
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Post by kitkat1971 on Jul 15, 2015 20:37:42 GMT
It's the assumption that they can schedule everything at the same time because everybody has virgin, Sky+, Freeview+ or i player so can record several things at a time. But not everybody does so not everybody can. I was on holiday somewhere with Basic Freeview but no recording device so we had to choose just one to watch that week which ended up being Black Work as it seemed the one the person i was on holiday with would be most interested in. Granted we could have caught two by watching either ITV or Ch4 on +1 (which obviously basic freeview does have) but if you want to watch the News and still get to bed before 11.30 that is kind of out.
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