29-03-2023, 10:39 PM
(29-03-2023, 09:05 PM)interestednovice Wrote: If they were serious about filling gaps in the schedule with more original programming instead of so many repeats, they could have kept Dateline London and had Shaun host it.To say it wasn't expensive to produce is an understatement - £70,000 per year was what was quoted as a 'saving' - that's about 0.05% of the combined budget of both channels for 1.4% of their annual output. Ludicrous - in a budget of tens of millions, that's a rounding error. For comparison, the cost of Dateline London for one year is less than the average hour of original network television.
There’s no reason it couldn’t have continued in the schedule, and it wasn’t that expensive to produce.