Bloody BBC!
Dec. 11th, 2013 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightYou know, normally I'm a big defender of the BBC, but that doesn't mean I think they're perfect.
Case in point: the bastards cancelled Ripper Street.
I only found out about this last night - it was a complete shock to me - and I'm so upset and angry. This is a great deal to do with the fact that apparently the cancellation came out of the blue to the makers of the show, so they won't have taken it into account in their story, and the way things were left at the end of the penultimate episode of season 2, I'm pretty sure it's going to end on an awful downer - one they might well not have chosen if they'd known about the cancellation earlier.
This is the second time the BBC have done this to me. The Hour, too, was cancelled leaving the story at a very low place (one the writer, Abi Morgan, has since said she never meant to be the end of the story), and the fact that Abi Morgan won an award for the show afterwards is very cold comfort. Just as is knowing that this petition asking the BBC to change their minds (there's a twitter account too @SaveRipperSt), which has already been signed by nearly 14,000 people won't make a blind bit of difference.
If you love the show, please sign it anyway. It may not help, but it certainly can't hurt.
Here's the link again.
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/reverse-the-bbc-s-decision-to-cancel-ripper-street?share_id=EbNDXPkSWf&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition
Going away to have a good cry now. Bastards!
Case in point: the bastards cancelled Ripper Street.
I only found out about this last night - it was a complete shock to me - and I'm so upset and angry. This is a great deal to do with the fact that apparently the cancellation came out of the blue to the makers of the show, so they won't have taken it into account in their story, and the way things were left at the end of the penultimate episode of season 2, I'm pretty sure it's going to end on an awful downer - one they might well not have chosen if they'd known about the cancellation earlier.
This is the second time the BBC have done this to me. The Hour, too, was cancelled leaving the story at a very low place (one the writer, Abi Morgan, has since said she never meant to be the end of the story), and the fact that Abi Morgan won an award for the show afterwards is very cold comfort. Just as is knowing that this petition asking the BBC to change their minds (there's a twitter account too @SaveRipperSt), which has already been signed by nearly 14,000 people won't make a blind bit of difference.
If you love the show, please sign it anyway. It may not help, but it certainly can't hurt.
Here's the link again.
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/reverse-the-bbc-s-decision-to-cancel-ripper-street?share_id=EbNDXPkSWf&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition
Going away to have a good cry now. Bastards!