Disappointing Baftas 2011
We are keeping our blog/article brief this week for one issue; consider it to be a protest or a stand as we wish to express our disappointment at the BBC and the Baftas and anyone else who is responsible.
What do the Oscar, Golden Globes, National Television Awards and the Brit Awards have in common? They are all live! Respectable or not but they at least serve their audience.
We have not read one press article where this has been addressed, instead we hear about who won what and who was wearing what? When the issue of why the Baftas is not live will perhaps never be addressed. This is just another nail in the coffin for the British film industry and perhaps even shows the rest of the world that we as the audience in Britain do not care about our Film industry…Ok what film industry I hear you ask because Slumdog Millionaire is just as British as Fish and Chips for obvious reasons and Harry Potter is as British as chicken curry because the chicken came from Britain!
Basically do we not have the capability to air the Bafta awards live and this is the impression we have given.
Is it a scheduling issue? A funding issue? Whichever it is, we feel it is inexcusable. We have over 1000 channels within the UK at present and not one channel can broadcast the event live.
Or maybe we should be saying Thank You for not inflicting such a biased/blind award ceremony.
What do you think?
On a side note released by South West Screen http://tiny.cc/zpjiw, we at RKD Films are also proud as our friend’s cousin who worked on Slumdog Millionaire as the chai vala and even though we have never met him and he lives in Mumbai we are proud to have influenced his life.
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