Gary Bushell has retired from reviewing tv

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/445349/index.html

and the things I know which the writer mentions are pretty good, a few amazingly good, but compared to the volume of one-off dramas which were being produced, he's not touting very many. I'm not saying they shouldn't revive the form, but we certainly shouldn't expect the format to throw up "Made In Britain"s more than, I dunno, once in a decade. And I'm not sure any of us have theh attention span to wait that long before writing off the whole enterprise.

Hasn't the space for the one-off drama kind of bloated a little and turned into TV company funded feature films?

Also you appear to have forgotten all about "This Life +10". Er, hold on.

yeah this was basically what did it, when c4 launched and a bit later when the bbc got into movie production. with c4 it's complex because a lot of their stuff was 'limited release' theatrically (and abroad). but 'bloated' is right for the latter-day stuff, which seems kind of middlebrow export dench stuff on the whole, 'sylvia' and 'iris'; meantime channel 4 stopped making movies after 'charlotte gray' (i think).

Yes, but it says:

The BBC's head of drama, Jane Tranter, said it was "early days" for the project, which will not hit the screen until next year.

I can't find anything to say it's been scrapped (nor anything to say when we can expect more information).

they dont make things like they used to and you wouldn't like it if they did

they forgot penda's fen

(this was between Christmas and New Year, btw, so if bloke in pub is to be believed, the revival is still a work in progress and hasn't been scrapped. Or else it has and this dude's writing a TV play for nothing and will have to hawk it to other TV companies or rewrite it for the stage or something. Can you tell I know *nothing* of how this works?)