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On 31/03/2021 11:49, Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:

filming a TV show called
#SecretsOfTheLondonUnderground during a lockdown

How is that an essential service?


It's work which he can't do from home. I don't think there's been a
point
at which non-essential *work* was forbidden (otherwise my friends
who
run a
mail-order wool company would have had to close, for example). Or
do you
think all production of new TV programmes should have ceased for a
year?


Anna Noyd-Dryver


(OT) Well .... I would be happy to see all soaps cease for 50 years.
It might give TV a chance to devise some new, original dramas
instead
of bombarding us with endless variations on the same tedious
stories......

is your TV missing an OFF button?




No. It also has a channel change option. It is just that I wish there
were more options for original UK drama, instead of endless repetition
of things long past their sell-by dates.

Too many TV executives seem to take the lazy option of "more of the
same" rather than experimenting with "something different".


The soap operas get far more viewers than most original dramas. That's
why
they don't go away.


I find that hard to understand why. Must be a lot of people who like
doing / seeing the same things, time after time, year after year.
Personally I prefer "variability" of my entertainment (for want of a
better description).

One of the things which I found surprising is, that if you look at the
ratings for rerun channels

you will find that reruns of reality-crap consistently out score, by
quite some margin, reruns of drama (all types) and documentary

I don't get it, but it's what the masses want

Even more surprising are the figures for Talking Pictures. The most
recent I can find is 3.5 million weekly views with a wide age range which
suggest to me the main channels are out of touch with the audience.

Once you get above a certain point, reach is not a particularly useful
figure, as you can never get beyond 100%, but you can get continually
increasing length of time per viewer

BBC1 and BBC2 have very similar figures for reach, but BBC1 has 4 times the
average minutes per day of BBC2

TP has approx the same number of minutes per viewer as BBC2, (if my mental
arithmetic didn't fail me)