I really like your take on this (and just found it - sorry, a bit late.) Sounds like everyone at the pubmeet weighed in and you ha a cool discussion. I can only comment on the U.S. side, but you're totally right and have summed it up very well. I have had to explain to SO many people re: the UK 6-8-13 episodes-in-a-series situation. Americans, used to a 22-ep. season, are struck dumb at this, as you said, a la Who, RH, etc.
The "SAVE THE SHOW" JERICHO fans with their "Nuts!" campaign was...unique. But it (like the Roswell campaign) was stunt-driven. Not that that's bad. But stunts helped garner media attention as opposed to a simple petition. (You may wish to Google it, if interested.) The fans got part of a second season, and the producers/cast/crew got the chance to write/film two diff. versions of the series finale which is more than most cancelled series get.(They had altered final scenes, in case the series got reupped - it didn't. Brilliant try though, as those finale scenes were written so that, via editing, they could have gone either way, and still satisfied the story/viewer.) At least there was some closure. Irony: JERICHO is now in repeats on the CW (another basic U.S. broadcast channel - not cable). So, money is still being made.
The pubmeet sounds really interesting to me, (especially the "the mechanics of commissioning, cancelling, producing...") but that could be because that's tangentially- related to how I spend my days. ;-) I'd love have been a fly on that wall and heard an honest, different take on things, and how things are done. Question: Perhaps Discussed?? Paraphrasing: A very snarky, yet bitingly well-thought-out comment to a recent Guardian article (concerning the BBC) took the position that based on a conference (?) that said person had recently gone to, it was clear that the BBC is afraid to fund things and when it did, it only let established talent write/produce/create, and then kept interferring all along the way, until the final product was watered down. Conversely, Canal+Plus (France) seeks out new talent, who can really write,etc., funds the work, then leaves them alone. And they're apparently doing well. Leaving aside potential UK/French issues for a moment, and the person's potential (clearly) anti-BBC bias, was there any discussion along these lines at the pubmeet? This night or previously? Or can you even say? ;-)
Thanks for your time. And for moderating the RH boards. Your posts are REALLY interesting! May I friend you?
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Date: 2009-04-29 04:00 am (UTC)The "SAVE THE SHOW" JERICHO fans with their "Nuts!" campaign was...unique. But it (like the Roswell campaign) was stunt-driven. Not that that's bad. But stunts helped garner media attention as opposed to a simple petition. (You may wish to Google it, if interested.) The fans got part of a second season, and the producers/cast/crew got the chance to write/film two diff. versions of the series finale which is more than most cancelled series get.(They had altered final scenes, in case the series got reupped - it didn't. Brilliant try though, as those finale scenes were written so that, via editing, they could have gone either way, and still satisfied the story/viewer.) At least there was some closure. Irony: JERICHO is now in repeats on the CW (another basic U.S. broadcast channel - not cable). So, money is still being made.
The pubmeet sounds really interesting to me, (especially the "the mechanics of commissioning, cancelling, producing...") but that could be because that's tangentially- related to how I spend my days. ;-) I'd love have been a fly on that wall and heard an honest, different take on things, and how things are done.
Question: Perhaps Discussed??
Paraphrasing: A very snarky, yet bitingly well-thought-out comment to a recent Guardian article (concerning the BBC) took the position that based on a conference (?) that said person had recently gone to, it was clear that the BBC is afraid to fund things and when it did, it only let established talent write/produce/create, and then kept interferring all along the way, until the final product was watered down. Conversely, Canal+Plus (France) seeks out new talent, who can really write,etc., funds the work, then leaves them alone. And they're apparently doing well. Leaving aside potential UK/French issues for a moment, and the person's potential (clearly) anti-BBC bias, was there any discussion along these lines at the pubmeet? This night or previously? Or can you even say? ;-)
Thanks for your time. And for moderating the RH boards. Your posts are REALLY interesting! May I friend you?