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[TV] BBC Spend £87 MILLION To Rebuild Set Of Eastenders





mejonaNO12 aka riskit

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Dec 4, 2003
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England
"The BBC’s attempt to build a new Albert Square for the filming of EastEnders has been heavily criticised by a group of MPs, who have questioned whether the enormous £87m cost of the project ain’t worth it."

Is that an Eastenders joke from the Guardian? :lolol:
 


Badger

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May 8, 2007
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"The corporation had initially hoped to carry out the ageing process while constructing new versions of recognisable buildings such as the Queen Vic pub. However, it was later decided this was too complicated and the BBC will instead spend £3.5m making the sets looking authentically old, in a process that could take up to 13 months."


How many Eastenders viewers give a shit about the authenticity of the buildings?
 


Is it PotG?

Thrifty non-licker
Feb 20, 2017
23,089
Sussex by the Sea
Is that nurse Debbie still floating around?

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Tom Hark Preston Park

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Jul 6, 2003
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Shameful that the BBC can splash the cash from the magic money tree while trying to chisel pensioners out of free telly licences. Rip-off Britain at its best/worst.
 






Sussex Nomad

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"The corporation had initially hoped to carry out the ageing process while constructing new versions of recognisable buildings such as the Queen Vic pub. However, it was later decided this was too complicated and the BBC will instead spend £3.5m making the sets looking authentically old, in a process that could take up to 13 months."


How many Eastenders viewers give a shit about the authenticity of the buildings?

Or the acting.
 


beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius
Jul 21, 2003
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i wonder what the cost of current set, production facilities are and over how long this project is expected to be in use? or another way, over how many decades and thousands of episodes is the cost amortised?
 




Pavilionaire

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Jul 7, 2003
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It's basic maths really:

Big Capital Project + Public Sector Body = Delay, Overspend, Clusterf*ck.
 


Tom Hark Preston Park

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Jul 6, 2003
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i wonder what the cost of current set, production facilities are and over how long this project is expected to be in use? or another way, over how many decades and thousands of episodes is the cost amortised?

Anyone remember Eldorado? BBC shelled out huge sums in a co-production to build a vast set in the wilds of Spain. Was naffly addictive at the time - MarKOOS! MarKOOS! - but folded after about a year. Good to see the BBC still pissing our money up the wall without any kind of oversight/reality check.
 


bhafc99

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Oct 14, 2003
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They need to bleedin' saught it OWT.
 




Tom Hark Preston Park

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Jul 6, 2003
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"The BBC’s attempt to build a new Albert Square for the filming of EastEnders has been heavily criticised by a group of MPs, who have questioned whether the enormous £87m cost of the project ain’t worth it."

Is that an Eastenders joke from the Guardian? :lolol:

Leeeeve it Rickay, ain't wurfit!
 


mejonaNO12 aka riskit

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Dec 4, 2003
21,481
England
They should be LUZZING all their money for Greg Wallace and more Inside the Factory.

"So Greg, we actually produce 20 million individual crisps each day"
"ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU SHIFT 20 MILLION CRISPS A DAY!?"
"That's right Greg"
 


Stat Brother

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Jul 11, 2003
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Still waiting for Crodo.
 




studio150

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Don't know why they didn't just say that Crossrail had compulsory purchased all of Albert Square and demolished the whole square and ended the series
 






Wrong-Direction

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Mar 10, 2013
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The BBC are being c***s????
Nooooo [emoji849]

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Megazone

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Jan 28, 2015
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Don't know why they didn't just say that Crossrail had compulsory purchased all of Albert Square and demolished the whole square and ended the series

I'd prefer a world nuclear war with Walford square being the point where most of the bombs land guaranteeing the end of Eastenders.
Saying that, I bet a few of the characters would still somehow come back to life after the explosion
 


A1X

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Surely if it was looking a bit manky, decrepit and shit then it adds to the realism of the actual East End?
 



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