28-05-2023, 12:50 AM
(27-05-2023, 11:31 PM)tellyblues Wrote:(27-05-2023, 07:17 PM)Kim Wexler’s Ponytail Wrote: There's nothing "ambitious" about knocking out watered down versions of shows from 30yrs ago.
Depends on what other broadcasters are making. Going for the "in thing" is unambitious. There was nothing else like what C4 decided to make even if they were reboots. The likelihood is that if similar shows with new names had been commissioned instead then they would have been labelled watered down versions of old shows so C4 can't win.
They make a lot of great shows but these days they don't have a monopoly on innovation, edge, quirky, ambitious or whatever. Taskmaster & Bakeoff are testament to that; Channel 4 shows originally not on Channel 4. They do follow too. Rise & Fall was blatantly their attempt at the current ''in thing'' The Traitors, Make Me Prime Minister was their millionth Apprentince clone, E4 are still trying to find the next Love Island and Steph's Packed Lunch is basicly an amalgamation of every other live daytime show.