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BBC Planning More Dramas For "Working Women"
4 February 2002 (StudioBriefing)
The BBC, famed for producing period costume dramas such as Pride and Prejudice and Vanity Fair, has decided to place its emphasis in the coming year on dramas focusing on the lives of working women, the London Times reported today (Monday). The publicly funded broadcaster has increased its budget for dramas by $140 million for the coming year, and much of that funding, as well as savings from the lavish costume spectacles, will be rechanneled to female-oriented drama, the newspaper indicated. A BBC spokesman told the Times, "We will still do period drama, but right now we have a very strong slate of dramas with powerful central female performances. Women tend to be the largest consumers of dramas and these are contemporary series, which sometimes aren't afraid to show women behaving badly."

U.K. Viewers Shun Expensive Costume Drama
3 November 1998 (StudioBriefing)
Less than a month after NBC's critically praised Crime and Punishment (1998) flopped in the ratings, a lavish, $10-million BBC production of Vanity Fair (1998) produced dismal ratings in Britain Sunday as the first episode of a five-part miniseries debuted. An unnamed senior drama producer at the Beeb told today's (Tuesday) London Daily Mirror that if the audience for the Thackery tale about Becky Sharp continues to decline, "we'll need to rethink whether we want to invest millions in other costume-drama projects." The newspaper also quoted an unnamed exec with the rival ITV as saying, "the BBC's reputation as a fine drama maker has definitely been tarnished."