Beside's RTD's outright lie about the coffee thing which I expected this being RTD after all, I was amazed at Gardner's remark about writing not being a democracy. She sure sang a different tune last year with all her talk about Ianto and Jack, or maybe she's forgotten.
But when people write novels, they have editors who go over their work and either suggest, or make changes, so the idea that a writer's idea is the final word isn't strictly truthful. People who write for television are writing directly for an audience. I've bought books I ended up not liking and put them down after a few pages, but the writer still got a royalty. In television, if someone stops watching a series, or fails to pay the license fee or asks their cable company to drop BBCA, numbers drop and so does revenue. If tv executives didn't keep an eye on all of this, they would go out of business, because it is a business, the business of entertainment.
The proof is at Amazon.com where the price of the cd has been lowered again to $14.49, and people are writing that they removed the cd from their shopping carts because they hated CoE, and it wasn't necessarily because of Ianto. A lot of people hated the ending. Julie Gardner and RTD can be as dismissive as they want, the numbers speak for themselves. I just hope the BBC is keeping tally.
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Date: 2009-07-28 03:51 pm (UTC)But when people write novels, they have editors who go over their work and either suggest, or make changes, so the idea that a writer's idea is the final word isn't strictly truthful. People who write for television are writing directly for an audience. I've bought books I ended up not liking and put them down after a few pages, but the writer still got a royalty. In television, if someone stops watching a series, or fails to pay the license fee or asks their cable company to drop BBCA, numbers drop and so does revenue. If tv executives didn't keep an eye on all of this, they would go out of business, because it is a business, the business of entertainment.
The proof is at Amazon.com where the price of the cd has been lowered again to $14.49, and people are writing that they removed the cd from their shopping carts because they hated CoE, and it wasn't necessarily because of Ianto. A lot of people hated the ending. Julie Gardner and RTD can be as dismissive as they want, the numbers speak for themselves. I just hope the BBC is keeping tally.