18-01-2022, 10:04 AM
johnnyboy post_id=63846 time= user_id=925 Wrote:Maybe I am spoiled by the streaming, multi-channel landscape now but it's really in the last 2-3 years that I feel the quality of the output has gone down. I can't quite put my finger on it though.Probably has a lot to do with the licence fee freezes between 2010 and 2016 which were real term cuts. Then small increases which if in line with inflation was a real term freeze (or if below inflation was still a real term cut). Inevitably the scale of these cuts will have had some effect on the output. There's also been the increase in streaming services with Netflix, Prime, and Disney+ having much larger budgets for programmes by comparison. A combination of both may be why the likes of Around the World in 80 Days are co-productions.
Formerly 'Charlie Wells' of TVForum.