Moribund and irrelevant. "Bums on seats" and "shared experience" isn't the issue in the BBC context. It's about time that someone starts looking into why the BBC spends the licence fee on US tv shows when independent UK tv companies cannot get their programmes on BBC television. The BBC should be wholly supporting UK talent, not cosying up to US broadcasters as their executives eye lucrative jobs in Los Angeles.
in the UK who had also downloaded it or watched it at via another, I had immediate access online to a worldwide community of fellow viewers and could, each week, read about or join in the plot speculation for these shows. If I had waited until it had aired on Sci-Fi/BBC2, that experience would have been lost to me.
I'd argue that I still got the 'shared experience' when watching downloaded Lost and Heroes eps straight after they had aired in the US. In fact, I'd argue that I got more of the shared experience than those who watched as it was broadcast in the UK as, not only could I discuss it with numerous people (both friends and strangers)...
Moribund and irrelevant. "Bums on seats" and "shared experience" isn't the issue in the BBC context. It's about time that someone starts looking into why the BBC spends the licence fee on US tv shows when independent UK tv companies cannot get their programmes on BBC television. The BBC should be wholly supporting UK talent, not cosying up to US broadcasters as their executives eye lucrative jobs in Los Angeles.
jeroid 4 years ago
in the UK who had also downloaded it or watched it at via another, I had immediate access online to a worldwide community of fellow viewers and could, each week, read about or join in the plot speculation for these shows. If I had waited until it had aired on Sci-Fi/BBC2, that experience would have been lost to me.
milkmiruku 4 years ago
I'd argue that I still got the 'shared experience' when watching downloaded Lost and Heroes eps straight after they had aired in the US. In fact, I'd argue that I got more of the shared experience than those who watched as it was broadcast in the UK as, not only could I discuss it with numerous people (both friends and strangers)...
milkmiruku 4 years ago