ITV v BBC
07/07/04 12:02 Media
issues
Times have changed over the last quarter of a
century, but you wouldn't know it to look at ITV's
new line-up for September. There's a Guardian story
about it
here
but essentially we're talking Parky and a bunch of
dramas with Martin Clunes, Miss Marple and a bunch of
refugees from EastEnders. Meanwhile the BBC has just
announced the new Doctor Who
won't have any Daleks.
People who know me and my foibles will be all too aware that I'm quite disproportionately happy about the return of Doctor Who, but doesn't all of the above look a bit old hat? This coming Saturday Channel 4 is to broadcast a documentary on the decline of Saturday night TV. I have no idea of the conclusions to which they're going to come and will watch with interest; it's noticeable, though, that in the sixties and seventies people flocked to the screen not only because of the lack of an alternative but because the programmes were doing something original. Had they just warmed over ideas from a quarter of a century previously, dare one suggest the decline would have set in rather earlier?
People who know me and my foibles will be all too aware that I'm quite disproportionately happy about the return of Doctor Who, but doesn't all of the above look a bit old hat? This coming Saturday Channel 4 is to broadcast a documentary on the decline of Saturday night TV. I have no idea of the conclusions to which they're going to come and will watch with interest; it's noticeable, though, that in the sixties and seventies people flocked to the screen not only because of the lack of an alternative but because the programmes were doing something original. Had they just warmed over ideas from a quarter of a century previously, dare one suggest the decline would have set in rather earlier?
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