Help Save "Agatha Christie's Poirot"
Newsman
Erie, PA USAPosts: 92MI6 Agent
While we cannot do much to bail out MGM and get the next Bond rolling, I am asking for your help in saving another British icon.
The Hercule Poirot series may be canceled or budget's slashed preventing them from finishing the last 6 Poirot stories. We cannot allow this happen.
This is from a recent online article:
In early 2010, it was speculated the Poirot series might end before the last six stories (out of 71) are filmed. David Suchet said, “I’m pragmatic and accept that things get cancelled. Of course, there are cutbacks in TV drama and if it is not to be, it is not to be. I will have to be a big boy and accept it.” He added, “Of course I would be very sad if it didn’t get recommissioned.”
Suchet also stated in April 2010 that if the series were to return, but on a lower budget scale, he would not want to continue making the last episodes if they would compromise the quality of the program.
So now is the time for fans to let ITV know that we would like ITV to produce the last of the Hercule Poirot stories by emailing ITV at
viewerservices@itv.com.
Or snail mail:
Viewer Services ITV Plc
Gas Street
Birmingham B1 2JT UK
You can also join my Facebook group to save the show:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122230311155159
THANK YOU!!!
The Hercule Poirot series may be canceled or budget's slashed preventing them from finishing the last 6 Poirot stories. We cannot allow this happen.
This is from a recent online article:
In early 2010, it was speculated the Poirot series might end before the last six stories (out of 71) are filmed. David Suchet said, “I’m pragmatic and accept that things get cancelled. Of course, there are cutbacks in TV drama and if it is not to be, it is not to be. I will have to be a big boy and accept it.” He added, “Of course I would be very sad if it didn’t get recommissioned.”
Suchet also stated in April 2010 that if the series were to return, but on a lower budget scale, he would not want to continue making the last episodes if they would compromise the quality of the program.
So now is the time for fans to let ITV know that we would like ITV to produce the last of the Hercule Poirot stories by emailing ITV at
viewerservices@itv.com.
Or snail mail:
Viewer Services ITV Plc
Gas Street
Birmingham B1 2JT UK
You can also join my Facebook group to save the show:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122230311155159
THANK YOU!!!
Comments
I thought he did a great job hosting it! What struck me the most was that for all that money there is no shower!
Please note "Last nights" Poirot has NOT been screened in the UK yet!! Ie NO Spoilers please!
It is believed the Arts Council of England is going to announce tomorrow how 25 - 30% cut in the arts budget the Government is planning will be disasterous for the arts in the UK, including Film, Tv, and Theatre. ITV (specifically Granada) has kept Poirot going since LWT who originally made it, lost its franchise back in the early nineties, and also went out of business as a production house. Then Granada was rebranded as part of ITV Studios, and again last year to ITV Productions. Its the only "flagship" period drama ITV now has, since Marple has fitted and stuttered, with ratings that dropped and not picked up again, in spite of changing the lead actress. - Needless to say, as a period series Poirot is very expensive to make, esp in this day and age.
Taggart nearly got the chop because it is made by STV productions, who were getting fed up of putting the production into ITV, but getting precious little in return. It seems that a new deal may have been brokered there, but I am guessing.
Looking further afield, Channel 4 is feeling the pinch looking for cheaper alternatives now they are finally admitting Big Brother is in its death throes, Sky only makes expensive programmes by being in watertight partnerships with American production companies and snaping up the Sport, (Battlestar Galactica was a good example of a Sky co-production) and the Beeb is under threat of getting its liscence squeezed. It has already announced that its capping actors wages to spread the blame. - A recent news report suggests they are planning to disclose star salaries, which its feared, could cause high level defections to other broadcasters.
The sad fact is, programming of this nature is dying out, - Taggart and Poirot are conspicuous as the only two major long running drama series still going unless you count the soaps.
Programmes like Loose Women, The Jerry Kyle Show, Bargin Hunt, DIY SOS, and This Morning - the latter has been going literally for decades, are cheap and cheerful "Junk Food" tv. Dropping them would make next to no difference because they collectively cost a fraction that a season of Poirot does! If they do dip in the ratings, they are easy to dump and replace with something painfully similar in seconds. - Everyone wins except the viewer.
The "Orient Express" episode was very well done and in some respects better than the Albert Finney film.
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Agreed; I loathe the corporate mentality generally, X-( but in the entertainment business it is especially galling. The Poirots will continue to be a money machine for decades via syndication, international rights and disc sales. They ought to stay the course and finish it in style. It's like Bond---there's a virtually guaranteed audience.
Unless, of course, the suits in charge of this are bedwetting tossers like those who steered MGM into the iceberg X-(
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
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Nor, for some reason, do they show the same number of classic movies they used to, I don't know why. They can't cost that much, surely? You get the same old same old churned out - if they show Bond or Black Narcissus or Total Recall once, they'll show it three or four times a month, on other channels perhaps, but it has a deadening effect.
That's why I joined lovefilm (netflix to you) because there's a treasure trove of movie classics whereas it feels like my mate had a bigger movie collection than what you see on telly.
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Nor, for some reason, do they show the same number of classic movies they used to, I don't know why. They can't cost that much, surely? You get the same old same old churned out - if they show Bond or Black Narcissus or Total Recall once, they'll show it three or four times a month, on other channels perhaps, but it has a deadening effect.
That's why I joined lovefilm (netflix to you) because there's a treasure trove of movie classics whereas it feels like my mate had a bigger movie collection than what you see on telly.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
http://apbateman.com
Roger Moore 1927-2017
There is something enchanting about mystery novels in the pitch black otherworld. I read "Poirot Investigates" in bed with a strong flashlight rested on my chest.
Captain Hastings & the little Belgian saved everything mon ami -{