The Sky is Falling
Nov. 2nd, 2007 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meddowOkay, so what I’ve gathered about what is going on in TV land is that there are huge cuts in budgets and staff going on at the BBC due to the government declining to increase the licence fee, which shall mostly affect the news programming and will probably not have an effect on the Whoniverse, but everyone’s holding their breath to see if a second season of The Sarah Jane Adventures is going to be commissioned at the moment and that cannot be helping. And even if it doesn’t have an effect on Doctor Who and related spin-offs, it will have an effect on BBC news programming, and since I swear by BBC World News this is not good.
Meanwhile, in the US, the writers strike has begun, which if it goes on for any decent length of time is going to have huge ramifications for scripted TV there since no more filming is going to happen once they run out of scripts and they’re worried about it to the point where Heroes: Origins (the spin-off) has been pretty much cancelled, and now there’s a rumour floating around that production has been shut down altogether on season 2 of Heroes and it’s now going to be 11 episodes instead of the planned 24. This is very very not good.
Now, there are definitely issues and topic involving these matters that should be carefully discussed and debated, but I don’t care about that right now because they are threatening my TV damn it, so this is personal. Give the BBC money. Give the Writers what they want. I don’t care what has to be done, all I know is that I can't do anything, so just fix it and fix it now!
Meanwhile, in the US, the writers strike has begun, which if it goes on for any decent length of time is going to have huge ramifications for scripted TV there since no more filming is going to happen once they run out of scripts and they’re worried about it to the point where Heroes: Origins (the spin-off) has been pretty much cancelled, and now there’s a rumour floating around that production has been shut down altogether on season 2 of Heroes and it’s now going to be 11 episodes instead of the planned 24. This is very very not good.
Now, there are definitely issues and topic involving these matters that should be carefully discussed and debated, but I don’t care about that right now because they are threatening my TV damn it, so this is personal. Give the BBC money. Give the Writers what they want. I don’t care what has to be done, all I know is that I can't do anything, so just fix it and fix it now!
