I just wondered. A friend who watches "Holby" (I don't) said that they have started "filmizing" the videotape as they once did to "Casualty" and "Brookside", and that it looks awful. He added that, when he tried to point this problem out to his wife, she didn't have a clue what he was going on about.
So is this a male-female thing?? My DW can't see it either. It is as if some people are "tuned in" to teelvisual grammar and others are not.
Videotape is smoother-looking and most soaps and sitcoms are made on it. Film looks deeper and grainier, and most non-soap dramas in the UK used to use it for location only in the 70s/80s, with videotaped interiors looking very stagey (think "Juliet Bravo") but more expensive dramas used film for everything - e.g. "Bergerac" and "Inspector Morse".
Some things now are very successfully done on Hi-definition videotape which looks as close to film as dammit. "Doctor Who" is the best example.