[MB.]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

But... if they stopped functioning and buying shows there will be nothing ready to enter production once they all return to work?

That's exactly the valid point I said could be made in the latter half of the quoted post Ultimately, it boils down to my belief that we won't be seeing TV and film production launching back up for until the end of the year at the very earliest, and that both conventional short and long-term business plans (as simple as "buy the rights to this TV show") are inadequate for the current global health crisis because of how unprecedented it is. Every non-essential industry should be on pause where possible (with workers being paid as normal - and hey, if massive companies can afford to do that, maybe they can also afford to help health services in any way they can, just as the likes of Premier League clubs and supermarkets are doing), and I personally don't believe that there's any way companies can ensure stability now for whenever they resume business; renegotiating industries such as TV and film production in a post-coronavirus world is going to be incredibly difficult and I imagine there'll be a lot of jobs that existed beforehand that won't exist for a long time afterward

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by MB.

That's exactly the valid point I said could be made in the latter half of the quoted post Ultimately, it boils down to my belief that we won't be seeing TV and film production launching back up for until the end of the year at the very earliest, and that both conventional short and long-term business plans (as simple as "buy the rights to this TV show") are inadequate for the current global health crisis because of how unprecedented it is. Every non-essential industry should be on pause where possible (with workers being paid as normal - and hey, if massive companies can afford to do that, maybe they can also afford to help health services in any way they can, just as the likes of Premier League clubs and supermarkets are doing), and I personally don't believe that there's any way companies can ensure stability now for whenever they resume business; renegotiating industries such as TV and film production in a post-coronavirus world is going to be incredibly difficult and I imagine there'll be a lot of jobs that existed beforehand that won't exist for a long time afterward

It is on pause. If they literally didn't do ANYTHING at all then they'd be starting from scratch after the health crisis is over which would delay people their returns into employment even further. If they made NO new deals for anything then they'd soon sink.

Not doing anything on the chance that they won't be able to do anything will ensure they don't.

So, yeah, we can live in an ideal world where Netflix know the future and know there'll be no work next year so give all their money to health services, thus ensuring there's no money to continue their business next year, taking more content off air, and more jobs off the market.

Kind of a ridiculous route to take.

[Oliver_W]

"Uncensored" ? From what I can remember nothing about Little Britain needed censoring anyway, apart from the nudity?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

"Uncensored" ? From what I can remember nothing about Little Britain needed censoring anyway, apart from the nudity?

It means More Cash than the BBC can pay them....................


The BBC were only going to do a few new ones

[bitontheslide]

work will start up again very soon on productions. Early summer at a guess. We arent going to be locked down any longer than about 6 weeks max because people will start ignoring it after that point

[arista]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

work will start up again very soon on productions. Early summer at a guess. We arent going to be locked down any longer than about 6 weeks max because people will start ignoring it after that point

Its to early to say that

[Mitchell]

Originally Posted by MB.

I'm not saying they should do that (they can by all means, if they're waging wars over the acquisition rights to, say, the Slovakian and Paraguayan versions of Little Britain too). I'm just using this example as a reflection of my belief that large companies (such as Netflix) probably ought to reassess unnecessary expenditures, such as throwing money at celebrities to sell their already-exisiting shows to them, during a global pandemic that is severely crippling their industry financially, especially when the amount they're paying celebrities to acquire the rights to a single show is more than they've donated to the relief fund for British workers in said industry. And if they have the money to pay for Matt Lucas' kitchen renovation, I'm sure they have a little left over to help sort out, say, this country's potentially disastrous ventilator shortage as well. But hey, that's just the anti-capitalist in me speaking!

Some people would also love to live in the warm and have lots of interesting animals on their doorstep.

[Saph]

here for it tbh

[Toy Soldier]

The idea that every industry should stop functioning and give all of the money to the NHS is one of the stranger theories I've heard today, I have to say. Not that I think Little Britain is especially important, but entertainment is becoming absolutely vital .

Also the issue has never been having enough money for ventilators, the issue is how quickly they can be manufactured and distributed. Giving thr NHS an extra £3million would make literally no difference at all.

[LeatherTrumpet]

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Is this a new sketch or?

[Mitchell]

Not Netflix meeting Matt Lucas at the peak district

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Which one is Matt Lucas?

[arista]

[We'd love to bring it back': Little Britain's Matt Lucas
confirms he and David Walliams are in talks with Netflix]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ot-series.html