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Aquarius1234 · 27/09/2024 20:02

I used to watch most bbc dramas for years and years.
Since BBC have geared everything to I Player first and foremost, rather than for specific BBC one or BBC two.
Apparently there isn't separate controllers anymore. They don't care about where the dramas land like they used to.

Anyway. I'm really disappointed with the lack of really really good dramas in the last couple of years or so.
Budget cuts also maybe.
But wow I used to say nothing beats a great BBC gritty drama. Now I wouldn't even be able to find one 😕
Romance, crime, thriller. Was my thing.
I pay my licence also and have no intention to stop. I'm just very sad at the lack of top quality Dramas. Also I've noticed when there eventually is one starting it's generally mixed or rubbish reviews. !!
I'm shocked at the amount of rubbish/ not good enough stuff that is given the green light !!

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MagentaRocks · 02/10/2024 15:14

harriettenightingale · 02/10/2024 09:37

So I assume it would be ok for Danny Dyer to play Martin Luther King?

That is so not the point. I don’t like real characters played by a different race, like the black Anne Boleyn for example as I like to be able to imagine what it was like and take myself back there, but the reason a black actor might be cast will be due to under representation. So the Danny Dyer playing MLK is not something that needs to happen.

MasterBeth · 02/10/2024 17:00

harriettenightingale · 02/10/2024 09:37

So I assume it would be ok for Danny Dyer to play Martin Luther King?

Only if you assume that America's history of slavery, segregation, racism and fight for civil rights had never happened.

You cannot ignore the context that any complex, sophisticated, narrative work of art exists in.

badgerpatrol · 02/10/2024 20:09

LoudSnoringDog · 28/09/2024 08:51

I've not seen a decent bbc drama in years.

Used to love Cranford, lark rise to candleford and their dickens adaptations. Bleak house, little dorrit. Can't recall anything even remotely as good on recent years.

Those are my absolute favourite things to watch too, I hang out for Christmas because hopefully there's something of this vein on then. It's pretty much the only thing I would watch at Christmas

badgerpatrol · 02/10/2024 20:20

JaninaDuszejko · 30/09/2024 17:28

I'd rather Wolf Hall was left as it was but there was also a TV drama series about the black people that actually were in the Tudor court, like John Blanke. There were hundreds of black people in Tudor London (the city had a total population of between 50K to 200K at this point), why not do a period drama about them? Colour blind casting can be done well but often is just a diversity box ticking exercise. You can make Anne Boleyn black in a TV series but that doesn't change everyone knowing she was actually white. You do a drama about John Blanke or one of the other black Tudors we know about and you change lots of people's understanding of the history of black people in Europe. There are lots of good black actors, they should be given meaty period drama roles.

ETA: thismay just be me getting old and fed up of yet another drama about Henry VIII and his wives.

Edited

I agree.
(I'm not white)
It's disappointing that stories and dramas of people of colour aren't commissioned, or tend to be 'Top Boy' cliques. (I heard this was good, but I can't watch violence/threat of violence anymore.)

OrchardBlack · 02/10/2024 20:24

I agree with you about Doctor Foster OP, the first season was absolutely perfect.

Definitely give Apples Never Fall a go, it was a brilliant book and it matches all your interests.

badgerpatrol · 02/10/2024 20:27

Just to add I am absolutely happy and want to see actors of colour in any role, just hate the hate (One Day) which was really good casting, but seemingly massive amounts of people couldn't get their heads around an Asian woman going to university and shagging a hot white dude (who she was too good for) in the 90's.
Happened to me, and I'm sure thousands of others but apparently no, too radical Confused

muffledvoice · 02/10/2024 20:45

Just binge watched night sleeper, it kept me hooked haha

JaninaDuszejko · 05/10/2024 15:08

badgerpatrol · 02/10/2024 20:27

Just to add I am absolutely happy and want to see actors of colour in any role, just hate the hate (One Day) which was really good casting, but seemingly massive amounts of people couldn't get their heads around an Asian woman going to university and shagging a hot white dude (who she was too good for) in the 90's.
Happened to me, and I'm sure thousands of others but apparently no, too radical Confused

Loved the casting for Emma in the Netflix One Day. So much better than the dreadful film with Anne Hathaway's dreadful accent. Are all the people who don't think it could happen should watch This Life with Egg and Milly (first came out in 1996). I knew lots of mixed race couples in the 90s and it wasn't exactly a new concept, a third of the men who went to India with the East India Company in the 18th and early 19th centuries married Indian women.

DonnaBanana · 05/10/2024 15:33

Gammony people kick off if the BBC spends a lot of money on anything nowadays threatening to stop paying their licence fee etc so it’s no surprise they’re cutting a lot of corners

Tallisker · 05/10/2024 16:04

What on earth are gammony people?

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