The Silence - BBC Drama

[quinara]

I really enjoyed this (more roles for Genevieve Barr nao, plz!), but, um, that wasn't an ending. Where's my ending, BBC? What about the boss dude, and Robyn, and the Professional Standards people?

Don't make me write four-episode-one-off-drama-fanfic.

Comments

[evilawyer]

I've mentioned this before (and if I haven't, why haven't you been reading my mind, hmm?), but it's always seemed to me that the BBC is more or less in general is oriented toward what in the US would think of as mini-series. An end is (almost) always in sight there, even when it's abrupt, whereas the production teams, the sponsors and the viewing audiences are all happy to think that a show will go on forever over here until it's booted off the air via cancellation blurb on the newswires/Internet. It's why we've had so many shows go on past their sell-buy date, as well as shows that just end (though, admittedly, that was more or a feature of shows in my youth, when the world was no so Internet-interconnected).

Why, I ask.

[quinara]

I think the BBC's used to mini-series, basically - and I imagine they work with the way funding and everything operates. You often get very small writing teams and a series will be put together almost in entirety before it airs.

The problem with The Silence wasn't that it was a mini-series - it just needed one more episode to finish it off.