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).
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
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).
― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
they dont make things like they used to and you wouldn't like it if they did
they forgot penda's fen
― 526 (526), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
(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?)
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link