Well, I didn't watch any of those shows you mentioned, so I guess I am not the target audience. I'd agree some of the mainstream drama has been lacklustre, and as you say, repetitive, but there's enough - plus some movies - to keep my schedule filled most weeks. I would be interested to explore other things, but I'm not inclined to pay a small fortune to do so.AF62 wrote:For me it was finding less and less I wanted to watch on broadcast tv, and frustrated by the broadcasters not showing what I did want to watch.Arborbridge wrote:Neither is write or wrong, but it might be an interesting subject to analyse why some people prefer one approach or the other.
A great example is only the first two series of Breaking Bad were broadcast in the UK, and then buried away on Five USA - how many awards has the show won, but no mainstream UK broadcasters were interested. As for the BBC’s treatment of The Wire…
Most of UK broadcast tv drama is ‘cookie cutter’ tv, with the same actors and the same story premise. It takes no risks, and simply isn’t interesting.
I look at the schedule for this evening (sure things have been disrupted by current events) but it is the same dull, same old same old. with nothing to interest.
And when the BBC does have something good, such as the recent second series of Lykkeland / State of Happiness it is buried away on BBC 4 (the channel the BBC wants to turn off) but is available for streaming on the iPlayer at the same time so you might as well watch it there.
Incidentally, you mention how some of your series you wanted were "buried" - well for me a similat thing happened with Buffy. Channel 4 bought the right to show it, I'm told, but they went up to Series 4 and then it just stopped. I'm stilll waiting! I believe it's available on one of these tax cheating channels - Disney ?- but there's the problem with commercial channels. Does one have to take on several different subscriptions to get all the things you want. If so, it's no wonder some people can't make ends meet. I have a friend who subscribes to something or other, and he thought £40 a month was cheap!
Arb.