{"id":118037,"date":"2024-01-09T09:19:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T09:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/itv-post-office-drama-harder-to-fund-today-says-itvs-polly-hill-deadline\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T09:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T09:19:44","slug":"itv-post-office-drama-harder-to-fund-today-says-itvs-polly-hill-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/itv-post-office-drama-harder-to-fund-today-says-itvs-polly-hill-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV Post Office Drama Harder To Fund Today, Says ITV\u2019s Polly Hill \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe present panorama is making it \u201cincreasingly hard\u201d to fund British tales such because the Post Office drama that&#8217;s at the moment dominating the information agenda, in line with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/itv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_itv\" data-tag=\"itv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITV<\/a>\u2018s drama boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/polly-hill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_polly-hill\" data-tag=\"polly-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polly Hill<\/a>, who commissioned the four-parter that&#8217;s on the entrance web page of each nationwide newspaper this morning, raised issues that exhibits distinctive to British tradition corresponding to <em>Mr Bates vs The Post Office <\/em>are \u201cimportant\u201d however \u201cincreasingly hard to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s now become harder to fund these British stories,\u201d mentioned Hill, who was seemingly referencing super-inflation within the drama market and the necessity to appeal to co-production funding, which might dilute editorial. \u201cWe must be able to keep making them, because <em>Mr Bates vs The Post Office<\/em> shows that drama can help make a difference, and importantly that the audience wants to hear them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe success of the drama, which starred <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/toby-jones\/\" id=\"auto-tag_toby-jones\" data-tag=\"toby-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toby Jones<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/monica-dolan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_monica-dolan\" data-tag=\"monica-dolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monica Dolan<\/a> and <em>The Crown\u2019s <\/em>Alex Jennings, was made extra stark in comparison with the present it got here up towards final week, the second season of BBC One\u2019s Jamie Dornan-starrer <em>The Tourist, <\/em>which is co-produced for Australia\u2019s Stan and Germany\u2019s ZDF, and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/12\/jamie-dornan-the-tourist-switches-max-netflix-1235667670\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">airs on Netflix within the U.S<\/a>. ITV\u2019s sequence<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/01\/bbc-tourist-ratings-jamie-dornan-itv-post-office-1235693584\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> almost doubled<\/a> <em>The Tourist\u2019s <\/em>linear score every evening and has attracted hundreds of thousands extra to ITVX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHill informed Deadline the story \u201cdemanded to be told.\u201d She was eager previous to even studying a script after being approached by UK producer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/patrick-spence\/\" id=\"auto-tag_patrick-spence\" data-tag=\"patrick-spence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Spence<\/a>, who had already met Bates and a gaggle of former sub-postmasters prepared to inform their surprising story. The scandal noticed lots of of those sub-postmasters wrongly accused and lots of prosecuted for theft, false accounting and fraud on account of discrepancies that confirmed up of their accounts, which it has since been proved was the fault of a pc system known as Horizon launched round 20 years in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cNone of us could possibly have imagined that it would become the national conversation, but how wonderful that it has,\u201d added Hill. \u201cThe\u00a0sub-postmasters and mistresses deserve to be heard and we hope this ITV drama helps bring about real change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The present panorama is making it \u201cincreasingly hard\u201d to fund British tales such because the Post Office drama that&#8217;s at the moment dominating the information agenda, in line with ITV\u2018s drama boss. Polly Hill, who commissioned the four-parter that&#8217;s on the entrance web page of each nationwide newspaper this morning, raised issues that exhibits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-118037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}