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Senior TV producers take shelf-stacking jobs as UK industry remains in crisis | :marseyemojilaugh: :turtoiserofl: :marseyrofl:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/07/senior-tv-producers-shelf-stacking-jobs-uk-industry-crisis
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More than 4.7 million people watched ITV2's Love Island on TV sets in 2019, according to the ratings body Barb, while last year's premiere peaked at 2.2 million viewers.

:marseypearlclutch: what will happen if Britain loses cultural touchstones like Lip Filler Island?

https://media.tenor.com/HXMYTZp-q2MAAAAx/love-island-usa-kaylor.webp

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one of the few ways that little damp island has any sort of current relevance, so could be catastrophic

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Deanoslop is the last thing holding this country together

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Experienced figures doing entry-level roles amid prolonged work drought since Covid and rise of online content

>5 years later

mite b time to retrain, lads

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weird I recently saw /r/ UK post about how they are taking over Hollywood when someone sacrilege arts/culture gibs

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1iumd87/comment/mdyjrtf/?context=8

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/u/Montmontage, the UK film is so terrible, all their producers are stocking shelves, parking cars, and giving $5 blowjobs to survive. How can you be so delusional???

:soysnootypefast: :marseylaugh:

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it's been 5 years i'm not sure if covid is still an excuse

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Did they do the writer's strike nonsense in bongland?

That excuse has also gotten a little old though.

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Go woke go broke. This is nothing but self inflicted. Look how Doctor Who has dropped in ratings, that show could've been a world leader in sci fi and actually had a great worldwide reach but none wanted to see a foid or BIPOC cute twink doctor

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Bongs are honestly insane in their BBC lust. Like 25% of their characters on screen are Black and every single TV show they produce has the most hamfisted and awkward gay relationship thrown in, Netflix look like amateur DEI enjoyers in comparison.

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yes bipoc representation is always funny. no Asians. black people galore. absolutely no Latinx and then white people. you would think we were still in the antebellum south if you only watched tv.

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There :marseycheerup: are no Latinx in the UK.

Asians are in TV shows all the time. You are just looking :marseyviewerstare: for Japs and Nips instead of Pakis and Jeets.

Honestly the worst thing about the BIPOCs in bong TV is there :marseycheerup: is no variety in their social :marseyredcheck: background. They all have the upper middle :marseyfinger: class accent, usually London, with absolutely no variety. It's the BIPOCs who they would :marseywood: refer to as "so well spoken" 40 years ago.

The only time you see BIPOCs from poorer backgrounds is when they are playing thugs.

They really :marseythinkorino2: like casting this guy in thug roles.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1741374000_FkJQAYHwnrYXQ.webp

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It just goes to show you that government shouldn't be in the entertainment industry.

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!neolibs

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0 correlation in this case, UK productions made for American streaming services are just as bad

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It's a cascading effect. Whoever the party in power is, corporations use that as a barometer for who they try to pander to. They don't care about making their logos into gay flags, they just see it as profitable marketing.

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Bond is the one that bugs me most of all.

Everything after Brosnon was a steamy pile of trend chasing shit. Trying to be more like the Bourne movies, trying to make Bond metrosexual, trying 'update' Bond for a 'modern' audience by people who never liked the franchise to begin with.

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When they killed off Roger Moore and replaced him with Timothy Dalton, it was over. He's not in the hall of fame because he's not a good actor.

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Only boomers watch tv nowadays, and they slowly dying :marseywait: :marseydead: :marseychartdowntrend:

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producer with more than 20 years' experience was working in a pub. Another with seven years' experience was doing temporary labour work. Other seasoned professionals had taken roles including working at supermarket checkouts, as classroom assistants and tour guides. Another said he was "having to sell my home and retrain due to the lack of work".

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Are these wanna-be producers, or people who had a student film and couldn't go anywhere in the film industry?

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/07/senior-tv-producers-shelf-stacking-jobs-uk-industry-crisis:

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