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25-03-2020, 08:58 PM | #1 | |||
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...ittle-britain/
They want to poach Matt Lucas and David Walliams from BBC woth the promise that they can go uncensored in the new episodes
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25-03-2020, 09:04 PM | #2 | |||
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Fun fact: £3m would also buy the NHS approximately 194 new medical ventilators
But I'm glad that Netflix's priorities lie with inflating David Walliams' bank account instead |
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25-03-2020, 09:06 PM | #3 | ||
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Matt Lucas has always said if he made Little Britain today, his own taste has completely changed so I don't think he'd want it to be as offensive as it was anyway.
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25-03-2020, 09:30 PM | #4 | |||
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Netflix are just gonna stop making to TV to fund the NHS then eh
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25-03-2020, 09:32 PM | #5 | |||
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When they have a spare £3m that they can piss away on a show that was never funny in the first place made by two incredibly rich people who aren't in desperate need of either the money or the exposure, in this case, yes!
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25-03-2020, 09:35 PM | #6 | |||
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This is legit so dumb, I-
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25-03-2020, 09:53 PM | #7 | |||
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The article states that the revival was being made for the BBC anyway, and that Netflix are paying Lucas and Walliams over a million pounds each to buy the rights instead "because it would be good for their brand"
in other words, a massively rich company (in an industry where 120,000 workers have lost their jobs because of corona) is giving massively rich celebrities money for no reason other than brand vanity, in the midst of a global pandemic in a country with a severely underfunded health system. If thinking they could perhaps divert non-essential spending on non-essential business deals for a week or two (when the entire industry has shut down and is rethinking its priorities - like, even Holby City are donating medical equipment, for crying out loud) is a dumb take, so be it! Until then, I'll patiently look forward to being able to watch Matt Lucas say the word "dust" in a funny voice and a dress ten times in one sketch on Netflix rather than BBC One |
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25-03-2020, 09:54 PM | #8 | ||
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The article is also the sun so...
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25-03-2020, 09:54 PM | #9 | ||
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Netflix is an American company, why would they send funds to our NHS?
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25-03-2020, 09:57 PM | #10 | |||
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Local content acquisitions aren't all made by one centralised Netflix branch |
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25-03-2020, 10:01 PM | #11 | ||
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Unless you're suggesting they make big donations to every healthcare service in every country that they have a "branch" in? In which case, they'd probs go bust. They're already using megabucks of borrowed cash to spend what they spend. |
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25-03-2020, 10:11 PM | #12 | |||
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But go off I guess
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25-03-2020, 10:12 PM | #13 | |||
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You could also say they are trying to keep 10s of millions entertained for what could end up being a very long time stuck inside
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25-03-2020, 10:16 PM | #14 | |||
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25-03-2020, 10:18 PM | #15 | |||
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25-03-2020, 10:21 PM | #16 | ||
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From what I understand of the OP I am not reading a Sun link. If it is the budget for making the show there are far, far more expensive shows worth looking at in terms of money they could save and place elsewhere than a potential revival of LB. Last edited by Marsh.; 25-03-2020 at 10:22 PM. |
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25-03-2020, 10:25 PM | #17 | |||
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25-03-2020, 10:27 PM | #18 | ||
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25-03-2020, 10:37 PM | #19 | |||
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(again, not sure a series of Little Britain with an increased special effects budget is what the world is crying out for right now, given *gestures generally at everything*) The exact same could be said of the BBC, if, of course, there were any feasible way of filming and distributing a TV series while the country's on lockdown |
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25-03-2020, 10:40 PM | #20 | ||
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It's not as though they're making it now during the crisis, this is just a report of on one show (out of hundreds) they are currently buying/producing etc. It's really one drop in a large ocean. Last edited by Marsh.; 25-03-2020 at 10:42 PM. |
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25-03-2020, 10:41 PM | #21 | |||
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It's a weird situation as they both forged a career after it from being PC friendly but the whole appeal was the bad taste and risky skits
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25-03-2020, 10:50 PM | #22 | |||
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collectively getting less than it takes to buy a single one of those shows Of course, £1m is better than nothing considering the attitudes of certain large global companies towards their workers at the moment (cough Amazon cough), and I'm sure an argument can be made that all Netflix are doing is ensuring production can continue as smoothly as possible when, or if, their employees are able to return to work, but as we can tell I'm a natural born cynic |
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25-03-2020, 10:54 PM | #23 | |||
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25-03-2020, 10:56 PM | #24 | |||
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That is absolutely true, and I don't want to make it sound as if I'm willingly taking the Netflix situation out of context as much as I may take issue with a story such as this (at the end of the day, they're still looking out for workers, which can't be said for the likes of Sports Direct)
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