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BBC Four Announce Dirk Gently TV Pilot

Yes, you are.

OK, no you're not. It wasn't the best thing ever and there were things that could have been improved, but it was a decent show on a channel renowned for crap. Shame they've dumped so much of the good stuff on BBC Three of late. Fades, Mongrels gone and kept Snog, Marry, Avoid and the like. BBC Four cancelling a load of Drama and comedy output too, which is a shame.
 
I blame the three episode season and the year gap between the "pilot" and the three episode season.

In America, they play a 24 episode first season, rerun the shit out of that first season all summer, and then season 2 is where when we actually find out if the bastard has an audience.

Mangan is in two series simultaneously with two different actors from Friends.

Not that we think of Helen like that way usually, but if she wouldn't have gotten knocked up like that so precipitously, then the producers would have kept her around as ross's wife for a couple years and in real life she would be living in a house twice the size she is now... Though that would also be true if she hadn't had the child.

Kids are so expensive.
 
Did they ever repeat this on BBC 2? Seemed like a show deserving of more attention.
 
Don't think it was. Which is a shame as BBC Four is now supposed to "feed in to" BBC Two, would be the perfect sort of thing for that.

Apparently the Beeb have decided to streamline the way their commissioning process works, and this has freed up £27m for productions. £20m of which will be going to BBC One. Seen as BBC one already has the biggest budget by far this seems a bit of a wasted opportunity to give the other channels a bit less of a budget cut.
 
They're locked into this infinite ratings war, which just shouldn't happen for a public TV service, especially when it comes to blockbuster Saturday evening competitions. The BBC never used to be about that and they should never have gone down that path. Simon Cowell knows that nothing he does can compete with DW or Merlin so he doesn't even try when they're on. The BBC should fucking well hire him to point out what they should be doing instead of trying to compete with his kind of show. They should also complement shows like Downton instead of trying to compete with them. It's insanity that another channel spends a lot of money on a high quality drama and the BBC, instead of putting something niche on and taking the hit, tries to actually compete.
 
They have to compete.

If they lose the first hour of prime time, they lost the night.

And then someone important, or someone who thinks that they are important is going to get fired.
 
Making money is not enough.

Every year they have to find a way to make a little more money than the last or they're fired.

They have to generate acceptable profits.

Souless bastard monsters in suits lose heir jobs all the time for not making enough profit.
 
Bah! This is why we aren't getting anymore Top Gear this year too. Ratings. Talents shows.. Why not let a show gradually gain a deserving audience.
 
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

There may no longer be enough of the right sort of people to support the right sort of programming.

Funny.

What i just said sounds elitist, exclusionary and quite "ist".
 
Saul said:
Bah! This is why we aren't getting anymore Top Gear this year too.
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Apart from a Xmas Special, you mean.

IIRC the main reason there isn't a July August series this year is because the Olympics and Euro 2012 have tied up so much of the "nonfiction" equipment and cameramen at the Beeb that there just aren't enough of them available to shoot the summer season.
 
Lonemagpie said:
Saul said:
Bah! This is why we aren't getting anymore Top Gear this year too.
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Apart from a Xmas Special, you mean.
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Which will be shown in January.

IIRC the main reason there isn't a July August series this year is because the Olympics and Euro 2012 have tied up so much of the "nonfiction" equipment and cameramen at the Beeb that there just aren't enough of them available to shoot the summer season.
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An because of the X-Factor according to JC.
 
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