31-05-2024, 03:43 PM
(31-05-2024, 02:32 PM)House Wrote: The move to Salford feels more like a quota exercise for out-of-London programming (as happened with Breakfast’s move to Salford) than about costs savings, as has been suggested here for some weeks now. Especially with Birmingham-produced Doctors ending later this year, moving 45-50 minutes of news to Salford makes things look less London-centric on paper.
Agreed. The problem is that moving the programme doesn’t really add anything for the viewer, so it is not a good example of representing a different area of the UK on screen. Whereas a drama, for example, does that much better.
In the context of Doctors being axed, it does end up looking like a tokenistic quota-driven move, rather than a genuine effort to represent out of London areas better.