Callan: an ITV production. That's the sad loss to British broadcasting, I think, the collapse of most of those ITV franchises.
I said to a non-UK student the other day that the only things British people ever talk about are the NHS, the BBC, and the weather, and he fervently agreed. Even when I'm complaining about individual dramas (see previous post!), it's because I care, and because I feel I have an investment in it, and because I want to contribute to the ongoing debate.
In a way, I think the BBC can claim some credit for Callan as well. Back in those days, the ITV companies saw the BBC as their main rival, and knew that, in order to compete, they had to match the standards the BBC set. It was when they stopped thinking like that that they stopped producing decent television, and their audience collapsed. So the market economists were wrong there, then.
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Date: 2010-10-15 11:49 am (UTC)I said to a non-UK student the other day that the only things British people ever talk about are the NHS, the BBC, and the weather, and he fervently agreed. Even when I'm complaining about individual dramas (see previous post!), it's because I care, and because I feel I have an investment in it, and because I want to contribute to the ongoing debate.
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