| Re: Abrams on Trek XI [message #268023 ] |
Mi, 31 Mai 2006 03:18 |
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"Fozzi" <efor6920 [at] bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Anybody" <anybody [at] anywhere-anytime.com> wrote in message
> news:290420061557060833%anybody [at] anywhere-anytime.com...
> > In article <1146276938.939509.259870 [at] v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
> > spiritofsupergirl [at] hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> Anybody wrote:
> >> > Utter rubbish.
> >>
> >> Yes, you are.
> >
> > What a piece of brilliance that reply is ... typical Internet user. :-(
> >
> > It *IS* complete garbage that UK shows are more "short-lived" than
> > anyone else's, even more so for a show like Dr Who that was obviously
> > going to be on-going (assuming enough people watched the new version).
> > Just like most shows made anywhere else, they're based on the almighty
> > "ratings" system.
> >
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> It MAY be, but that is not what he claimed, for a start most british
series
> (excluding soapies) are commissioned for only 6 to 12 episodes and then
> recomissioned or not depending on results, (that is the reason the british
> industry uses the term series 1, series 2 etc..., instead of season 1, 2
> etc...), but actually you are still wrong lets simply take an example, Red
> Dwarf is one of the highest rated shows in BBC Manchesters history, it was
a
> huge international success, so brilliantly done that american audiences
> actually preferred the british version, and american producers accepted
that
> its magic was impossible to recapture in a local remake, yet we have only
50
> episodes of it (and 16 of them were only made, nearly a decade after the
> rest, to bring it up to a syndicatable package).
> Secondly it is not even unusual in britain, for an actor to sign on for 1
> series only. Among the many who do so regularly are people like Stephen
Fry,
> Ben Elton, Mac Mc Donald and John Cleese who, except for monty python when
> he was very young, has never continued a show beyond series 2 regardless
of
> how successful it was.
> Thirdly, you are calling a person selfish because they made a professional
> decision you didn't like, a decision which has no substantive effect on
your
> life whatsoever, a decision which in the british industry is considered
> reasonable perhaps even wise, a person who wouldn't know you from a bar of
> soap. In other words you expect a complete stranger to make career
decisions
> based on your own superficial desires. Well quite frankly, to paraphrase a
> master, don't ask from whom the selfishness extols, it extols from thee.
Indeed!
Heh... careful Foz or "Anybody" will go off and pout and not enlighten us on
his on expert knowledge of how television is produced and how he knows best
on everything.... {{;-/>
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Kweeg
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| Re: Abrams on Trek XI [message #268035 ] |
Mi, 31 Mai 2006 10:46 |
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"Anybody" <anybody [at] anywhere-anytime.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3%H4g.70896$H71.10997 [at] newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
> Wunderkind <a [at] b.com> wrote:
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> To quote Leia in Star Wars:
> "I don't know where you get your delusions from laserbrain!"
> ... although I'd add: "and I don't care."
>
> British TV shows are *NOT* "short". They're made no differently to
> anyone else's shows. They're all based on the almighty "ratings" -
> that's a fact, I don't deal in delusions.
Wrong, british and australian shows are produced very differently to
american shows, of course the ratings are still important but they do not
effect it in the same way, most british sitcoms for exampl already have 3/4
(if not all) of the series episodes in the can before episode 1 even airs,
perhaps you can inform me exactly how (other than total cancellation) how
ratings can possibly effect decisions and episodes that were made 6 - 9
months before the ratings figures were available.
fozzi
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