And it's only cost me £120 a year! (???)
BBC spend £88 million on comedy Page 2
I sort of think though that people have (the people in the industry) have overlooked one thing: Television is not a necessity. I was talking to a comedienne friend today and she said no one watches the TV anymore. It's eitehr on demand, or over the net.
Now, this could have two implications. Firstly, it means the way programmes are made and targetted HAS to change for the stations to survive. But more importantly, it means truely awful programmes will bite the dust, and save the rest of us wasting time.
Personally I am tired of hearing of such-and-suchs' big show or shows built around the idea that because it has a certain person in it people will come. That mentality is the same as the tabloids. Look at BB. The format is dead; some vested interests in certain tabloids are trying to keep it alive and failing, but the sort of people who buy tabloids are the same sort of people who can't form an opinion, read a story in there and mistake what they have read as opinion. The same applies with the current state of television
There are some good shows, but there are some surprisingly high wages being paid.
BBC Wales two years aago had a taxi bill of over £3,000,000. That is disgusting. I should point out it was for different taxies and not someone taking the long way round.
Wastage, and poor decision have to be addressed and restructuring has to occur for survival.
The trouble is are they answerable to anyone?
I too think i could make one for £50,000 I'll get some cheap good actors. They let us use their cameras a tripod and a steadi cam setup a few lights a few days on an editing suite and I'd be ok. Music well i asume bbc owns rights to play alot of songs allready i assume.
Quote: Ed Parnell @ July 4, 2007, 9:55 PMBBC Wales two years ago had a taxi bill of over £3,000,000. That is disgusting
That is very disgusting 
Quite amazing too mind, they must have put some real effort in to get the meter up that high!
Quote: Aaron @ July 4, 2007, 9:23 PMAnyway, the real question is not "How much has the BBC spent on comedy?", but "How much has the BBC made from comedy?" - take into account overseas programme and format sales, DVD sales and so on, and I wouldn't mind betting that there's quiiiiiiite a tidy profit being made there.
Good point Aaron... I think you ought to place that bet too! BBC Worldwide made record profits last year - up 24% to a rather impressive £111.1m! Sadly a large share of that does not go back into the BBC (this is probably another argument for another thread but I've always thought licence payers should be able to get BBC shows on DVD at cost - after all we paid to make them).
Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ July 4, 2007, 4:24 PMThere are people starving in the Third World.
Quote: Darren Goldsmith @ July 4, 2007, 4:28 PMAnd I bet even they wouldn't watch 'Hyperdrive'...
- that's brilliant Darren. Love it!
Samantha Janus was in one as well last spring/summer, though I'll be damned if I can remember the name of it.
Quote: David H @ July 4, 2007, 11:03 PMSamantha Janus was in one as well last spring/summer, though I'll be damned if I can remember the name of it.
In one what?
I'm watching her (well not now) in "Pie in the Sky" friday nights on ITV3.
Quote: David H @ July 4, 2007, 11:03 PMSamantha Janus was in one as well last spring/summer, though I'll be damned if I can remember the name of it.
That was Home Again. Wish I'd managed to blot that out of my mind!
Sarah Alexander must be Samantha Janus's twin separated at birth.
(nearly a Freudian slip there - Samantha Anus!)
Quote: David Chapman @ July 4, 2007, 11:48 PM(nearly a Freudian slip there - Samantha Anus!)
You want to, eh? It's all coming out now!
Quote: Aaron @ July 5, 2007, 8:41 AMYou want to, eh? It's all coming out now!
Yeah - but I managed to clean most of it up!