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British Stories Like ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ “Increasingly Hard” To Fund In Today’s TV Climate, Says ITV Drama Boss
The current landscape is making it “increasingly hard” to fund British stories such as the Post Office drama that is currently dominating the news agenda, according to ITV’s drama…
Polly Hill, who commissioned the four-parter that is on the front page of every national newspaper this morning, raised concerns that shows unique to British culture such as Mr Bates vs The Post Office are “important” but “increasingly hard to make.” The success of the drama, which starred Toby Jones, Monica Dolan and The Crown’s Alex Jennings, was made more stark when compared with the show it came up against last week, the second season of BBC One’s Jamie Dornan-starrer The Tourist, which is co-produced for Australia’s Stan and Germany’s ZDF, and airs on Netflix in the U.S. ITV’s series nearly doubled The Tourist’s linear rating each night and has attracted millions more to ITVX. “The sub-postmasters and mistresses deserve to be heard and we hope this ITV drama helps bring about real change.”
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