Yes - you could charactarise the US way of working as a way of maximising ad revenue from a the diminishing halo of a brand, regardless of whether creatively the project is still vigorous. Or, in plainer language, flogging a dead horse.
Not to say there aren't long runs of UK stuff. My Family, for example - a consistently excellent sitcom. Two Pints, hugely popular, long running, long series. But, you know, US tech bloggers, experts in UK comedy TV commissioning patterns, aren't they? > Richard Hyett wrote: > > He raises perhaps inadvertantly the old point about why we haven't > > done many good 'Situation Comedies recently and when we do why they > > only run for a fairly limited series. You can't imagine Friends or > > Cheers or MASH closing after two series. > > But "Two series and out" is a very UK way of working. Life on > Mars being a recent example. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
