Originally Posted By: wfaulk

Of course it's about quality over quantity. But I'd rather have a greater quantity of quality shows. Limited quantity hasn't exactly kept British programming uniformly quality, though. (Footballers' Wives, I'm looking at you.) My complaint is that British shows are (often) almost over before they've started.


I think that just isn't possible though, it is the nature of the beast that there is a limit to how many quality episodes you can make before you start doing slight variations of the same stuff over and over again (or start having to kill of major characters to inject interest).

Even the quality US shows have long bad patches, thanks to the problem of just trying to churn out so much material each year.

Can you imagine how bad things like Green Wing would be when forced to produce 22 episodes a year for at least five years ?
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