Thursday, July 15, 2004

BBC One

The BBC has launched a study into BBC One's peak time schedules amid viewer concern about programme quality.

BBC News Online analyses a week's programming.
There are 410 minutes of US movies on BBC One compared to 195 minutes of UK films.

But there is also almost five hours of new British drama and more than two hours of current affairs programming.

55 Degrees North is a highly-publicised new drama series on BBC One, but critics may argue that a new police drama does not count as original programming.
Posted by jula meadows

1 comment:

  1. mark g11:35 am

    "...critics may argue that a new police drama does not count as original programming...", instantly displaying the depressing British critical prejudice against genres other than social drama.

    Yet "The Long Firm" has been widely praised, while falling smack in the crime sub-genre, the gangster story. The way of telling the story may be a refreshing variant (too much voiceover in my opinion), but it's still crime, kids.

    Is it because Brit Crits still kow tow to the literary tradition?

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