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Where is the Entertainment?

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GillE:
Sorry Rodders - it looks like we don't have a 'system restore'.

Gill

GillE:
There's been some wonderful television this summer.  Over the past couple of weeks I've been indulging in some programmes that I missed because I was too young to watch them the first time they were broadcast.  The first is the superb I Claudius on BBC4 and the second is Secret Army on UK Drama.

What's struck me is how relatively inexpensive both these series would have been to produce; a few costumes, a couple of sets and the odd derelict building or quarry for Secret Army.  But they are distinguished by the quality of the actors and scripts.  Now, to my mind it doesn't cost any more to employ poor actors and scriptwriters than it takes to employ good ones.  Well, it might cost a little more, but there's got to be an established salary range within the industry.

So if programmes such as these (which pulled in millions of viewers and achieved rave critical appraisals) are cheap to make and are deemed worthy of being repeated more than a generation after they were first broadcast, why aren't more being produced nowadays?  I'm sure we've still got great actors and scriptwriters who'd love an opportunity to get involved in such projects.  I wonder why they're no longer being produced.

Gill

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