Case study 1: dERBYSHIRE'S SHOW lacks ratings
The award-winning BBC show faced a severe backlash and ended up being slashed on Thursday the 23rd of January. The presenter who led the show felt ''devastated'' by the news, revealing that she had not been informed of this decision in advance. The show expressed pride in what she and her team had achieved in less than five years. The thing is, politicians declared their dismay at the decision to axe the BBC Two current affairs and investigative show.On twitter, she referred to ''breaking tonnes of original stories (which we were asked to do); attracting a working class, young, diverse audience that BBC radio & and TV news progs just don’t reach (which we were asked to do); & smashing the digital figures (which we were asked to do). I’m gutted particularly for our brilliant, young, ambitious, talented team – love ‘em. And for all those people we gave a voice to. Love them too,” she said. And she told followers that she had first learned of the decision from a report in the Times.Victoria Derbyshire proceeded to attack the BBC for claiming it is cutting her show because it failed to increase its live audience and have an overall higher rating. The corporation cutted over 450 jobs as part of plans to reduce costs and “modernise” its newsroom.
Derbyshire decided the best action she should take would be to speak out on social media around the same time that an email went to all BBC staff members from the broadcaster's director specially of the news and current affairs. Fran Unsworth said that the show was ending and the move on tended to be as a part of a ''wider series of changes'' which the BBC would announce in the coming weeks. BBC insiders also suggested that the axing was also due to the fact that the show was a part of a package of cuts but bungling caused this news to leak. According to Unsworth, he said how shutting the show down had ''not been an easy decision'' and added on that it was “exactly the type of journalism we need to continue, reaching audiences who are often underserved by the BBC and we will be retaining some of the programme’s journalism roles to enable us to continue this work”. The Labour MP and shadow culture minister Tracy Brabin described the show as ''brace and courageous journalism at its very best'' she spoke of how it often brought attention to the issues that MPs find in their surgeries “but wouldn’t find their way into the mainstream press”to an email at the outgoing director general Tony Hall, urging him to rethink of the decision however, another Tory MP named Michael Fabricant said: “Personally, I am pleased the Victoria Derbyshire programme is being axed. I found it turgid, mostly dull, and trivial.”
Case study 2: cRIMEWATCH HORRIFIC INFO
In October 2017, the BBC announced how the main Crimewatch series had been axed, citing declining viewership. The show based on reconstructing unsolved crimes in a bid to gather information from the public, will be closing after more than three decades. not all aspects of this show however were negative,
In 1984, Sue Cook and Nick Ross hosted the first show featuring the murder of 16-year-old Colette Aram, who disappeared as she walked to her boyfriend's house in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire a year before. Cook was replaced by Jill Dando in 1995, with the latter's murder in April 1999 featuring on the programme a month later.As a result of the calls made to the programme, the police were led on a new line of enquiry which resulted in the arrest of Barry George. George was wrongly convicted of the killing and acquitted in 2008. The show may be viewed as the purest kind of public service TV as it brings more benefits to the police and society that to the broadcasters. Other crimes to have featured on the show over the past 33 years have included the murders of James Bulger, Rhys Jones and Damilola Taylor, as well as the disappearances of Madeleine McCann, Suzy Lamplugh and Claudia Lawrence.
In 1984, Sue Cook and Nick Ross hosted the first show featuring the murder of 16-year-old Colette Aram, who disappeared as she walked to her boyfriend's house in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire a year before. Cook was replaced by Jill Dando in 1995, with the latter's murder in April 1999 featuring on the programme a month later.As a result of the calls made to the programme, the police were led on a new line of enquiry which resulted in the arrest of Barry George. George was wrongly convicted of the killing and acquitted in 2008. The show may be viewed as the purest kind of public service TV as it brings more benefits to the police and society that to the broadcasters. Other crimes to have featured on the show over the past 33 years have included the murders of James Bulger, Rhys Jones and Damilola Taylor, as well as the disappearances of Madeleine McCann, Suzy Lamplugh and Claudia Lawrence.
Case study 3: white gold sexual ASSAULT
First airing in the summer of 2017 featuring Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick and the Inbetweeners star leading the cast of this outrageous comedy set. This was from a double-glazed sales firm in Essex. It was centered around double-glazing firm Cachet Windows as well as the staff who work there all led by suave senior salesman named Vincent Swan. The show was first seen to be canceled then James, The Inbetweeners star who played Jay Cartwright responded to respond to a fan from the BBC Two White Gold Facebook group which read: ‘Unfortunately the show has been cancelled and will not return for another series. Sorry that we haven’t told you all sooner.’
After he posted that, he went onto twitter and posted ‘Well, it seems so. No one told me officially, but then again I don’t have Facebook … and why would I be told personally?’ The thing is, ever since the first tweet emerged, the BBC came out to confirm how the Facebook account was actually 'fake' and they actually have not decided if they want to bring the show back or not.Previously, the show's future was already thrown into doubt by sexual assault allegations placed by Kristina Cohen against the star Ed Westwick. The former actress Aurelie Wynn also had accused him of raping her on July 2014. As a result, ''White Gold'' was suspended indefinitely.
Links used:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/23/victoria-derbyshire-says-not-told-bbc-axing-show#maincontent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/bbc-cuts-victoria-derbyshire-show-job-losses-a9308366.html
https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/06/bbc-comedy-white-gold-axed-james-buckley-claims-wasnt-even-told-12194842/
https://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/sexual-harassment-scandals-tv-shows-impacted-house-of-cards-today-transparent-1201904687/
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bbc-crimewatch-cancelled-33-years-jeremy-vine-long-running-tv-programme-a8004261.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/bbc-cuts-victoria-derbyshire-show-job-losses-a9308366.html
https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/06/bbc-comedy-white-gold-axed-james-buckley-claims-wasnt-even-told-12194842/
https://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/sexual-harassment-scandals-tv-shows-impacted-house-of-cards-today-transparent-1201904687/
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bbc-crimewatch-cancelled-33-years-jeremy-vine-long-running-tv-programme-a8004261.html