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Post by davemachin on Mar 26, 2010 14:38:40 GMT
uk.tv.yahoo.com/blog/article/412622/Just heard about this piece of news online. I am very surprised it hasn't been axed before now as it has been going down hill for a long time. Still, it is very sad to see a once gripping police series finally go under. ITV have only themselves to blame though for messing around with the formula once too often. Dave
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2010 16:35:28 GMT
The last straw for me was when they filmised it last year, which probably tied in with it's "re-imagining"! After that, I gave up watching. A real shame what happened to it in recent years when you take a look at the early episodes. It was even pretty decent up to the time they turned it into a fully-fledged soap about ten years ago. It's been as tame as hell for a few years now. Probably a mercy killing but it makes you wonder if ITV didn't just keep tampering with it until it was so unpopular that they had reason to cancel it!
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Post by Philip Hindley on Mar 27, 2010 9:36:17 GMT
The last straw for me was when they filmised it last year, which probably tied in with it's "re-imagining"! After that, I gave up watching. A real shame what happened to it in recent years when you take a look at the early episodes. It was even pretty decent up to the time they turned it into a fully-fledged soap about ten years ago. It's been as tame as hell for a few years now. Probably a mercy killing but it makes you wonder if ITV didn't just keep tampering with it until it was so unpopular that they had reason to cancel it! Kill Bill it had been coming ever since they revamped it, terrible jerky camera work, incidental music which just wasnt needed. |
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Post by adriane17 on Apr 2, 2010 7:53:04 GMT
It was one of those things that had had its day.
Strange that we won't have anything in the Dixon/Z Cars/Juliet Bravo/Bill vein of mainstream UK police drama on a major free to air channel.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2010 10:15:48 GMT
Yes, it was the last of a long line of those kind of shows. The saddest part of this story is not that The Bill is finally ending but that TV doesn't make those type of dramas anymore (i.e. VT-based crime series). So The Bill seems likely to be have no heirs, which is the real shame.
Plenty of cinematic type dramas these days (which The Bill was turned into and, in my opinion, was the final blow that killed it off) but anything made on tape and displaying TV's early theatrical influences is terminally unsexy. With it's demise (and the likelihood of further such dramas being almost zero), we are also saying a final goodbye to Dixon Of Dock Green, Z-Cars, No Hiding Place, New Scotland Yard, Juliet Bravo, Softly Softly, Special Branch and all the rest.
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Post by adriane17 on Apr 2, 2010 13:02:33 GMT
A real end of an era moment - over half a century of such drama comes to an end. In some ways it was the last strand still to betray the origins of TV in theatre although The Bill itself "jumped the shark" when it moved from the old format as previously stated.
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