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Current TV obsessions

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I am based in the UK and I think we share some shows with the USA so some of mine are: 

What We Do In The Shadows - about a group of vampires that live on Staten Island in the USA and go round generally troubling people with their vampiric ways. It's very funny - quite British humour, dry and silly. Has Matt Berry who I adore. 

Ted Lasso - Is it British? Is it American? Hard to tell. Roy Kent and Ted are the best characters, but the female actors are also brilliant. Losely about football but not realllllly about football at all (I hate all sports and love this show). 

Your turn! 

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  • I can’t help but feel that modern TV is a little bit rubbish these days. When I was a kid we had four or five channels. And they put real effort into the shows they put on them because they wanted to compete with each other. And you couldn’t binge watch anything if you missed it you probably had missed it. so they  needed to keep you motivated to keep coming back because I knew if you missed an episode you might not come back at all.

    we had Star Trek and Babylon 5 and bugs and Red Dwarf and Narnia and poirot and miss Marples. You turn on the terrestrial channels these days on a weekday night and all you get is lifestyle TV and current affairs. And on the weekend exciting drama and sci-fi is just not there. And the sitcom feels like a lost art.

    and then you’ve got the streaming services. Commissioning show after show but so many of them feel like more of the same. It’s getting formulaic. Like the stories are put together by focus groups or by stitching together worn out tropes.

    back in the day the television companies invested in creatives with novel ideas. and if they liked your first series a lot or if it was popular they might let you do a second or a third. now they won’t even give you much of a budget unless they’re convinced they can get at least three series out of you. they want franchises.

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  • I can’t help but feel that modern TV is a little bit rubbish these days. When I was a kid we had four or five channels. And they put real effort into the shows they put on them because they wanted to compete with each other. And you couldn’t binge watch anything if you missed it you probably had missed it. so they  needed to keep you motivated to keep coming back because I knew if you missed an episode you might not come back at all.

    we had Star Trek and Babylon 5 and bugs and Red Dwarf and Narnia and poirot and miss Marples. You turn on the terrestrial channels these days on a weekday night and all you get is lifestyle TV and current affairs. And on the weekend exciting drama and sci-fi is just not there. And the sitcom feels like a lost art.

    and then you’ve got the streaming services. Commissioning show after show but so many of them feel like more of the same. It’s getting formulaic. Like the stories are put together by focus groups or by stitching together worn out tropes.

    back in the day the television companies invested in creatives with novel ideas. and if they liked your first series a lot or if it was popular they might let you do a second or a third. now they won’t even give you much of a budget unless they’re convinced they can get at least three series out of you. they want franchises.

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