Reply to post: Re: 32,000 hours??

UK TV is getting worse as younglings shun the BBC et al, says Ofcom

Vinyl-Junkie

Re: 32,000 hours??

I suspect the 32,000 hours includes US drama such as Game of Thrones, Mad Men, etc, all the documentary stuff made for Discovery, History Channels, etc, not to mention the shedloads of US reality TV. It would also include Scandanavian TV (I suspect there may be more original Scandanavian drama on BBC than UK produced) and Sky produced content (technically foreign?) such as Strike Back and collaborations with overseas channels in dramas such as The Tunnel and Fortitude. Have a look through the channels on a Sky box during peak broadcast season (usually autumn & spring) and I suspect you could find 100 hours of new overseas content for every hour of UK produced (especially when you bear in mind that most US dramas run for 20-26 episodes per season whereas UK drama tends to run from 6-13 episodes. So say 50 new overseas programmes for every new UK one. Doesn't seem unlikely to me.

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