XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: efor6920@bigpond.net.au   
      
   "Anybody"  wrote in message   
   news:300420061105125737%anybody@anywhere-anytime.com...   
   > In article <3%H4g.70896$H71.10997@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,   
   > Wunderkind  wrote:   
   >   
   > To quote Leia in Star Wars:   
   >     "I don't know where you get your delusions from laserbrain!"   
   > ... although I'd add: "and I don't care."   
   >   
   > British TV shows are *NOT* "short". They're made no differently to   
   > anyone else's shows. They're all based on the almighty "ratings" -   
   > that's a fact, I don't deal in delusions.   
      
   Wrong, british and australian shows are produced very differently to   
   american shows, of course the ratings are still important but they do not   
   effect it in the same way, most british sitcoms for exampl already have 3/4   
   (if not all) of the series episodes in the can before episode 1 even airs,   
   perhaps you can inform me exactly how (other than total cancellation) how   
   ratings can possibly effect decisions and episodes that were made 6 - 9   
   months before the ratings figures were available.   
      
   fozzi   
      
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