mme-hardy:mid0nz:Pirates Unite! Fangirls = Pirates. Damn Straight. ..from Making Masterpiec
mme-hardy: mid0nz: Pirates Unite! Fangirls = Pirates. Damn Straight. ..from Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS by Rebecca Eaton I love the first photo so much. Rebecca Eaton: “We don’t seem to be suffering from the loss of viewers who’ve illegally pirated the show ….” “Not only had these young pirates previously seen this particular episode of Sherlock, they’d illegally seen the other episodes … They had only a vague awareness of Masterpiece, and it’s possible there wasn’t a television set among them.” A.k.a. “The audience has changed, and we’re not going to follow that change, so we’ll blame them instead.” Dear Ms. Eaton: You can either say “We’re lagging episode airing by 6 months, and it hasn’t hurt a bit”, or you can say “We’re lagging episode airing by 6 months, and our young viewers are switching to illegal downloads.” Pick one, at least in the same interview. I am not, in general, down with “Information wants to be free”. However, when you provide a product in an obsolescent format and refuse to accommodate customers who prefer a newer format, you are digging your own grave, and not in an Edward Gorey way. Cannnot NOT reblog the comment above. Remember how Chinese fans were able to legally watch the 3rd season mere hours after it aired in the UK and the 1st episode got nearly 5 million views within 24 hours? That’s what you do in the 21st century to beat piracy. Also, I don’t understand why they spent like 99.9% of their PR funds on Downton but so little on Sherlock. We all know how frustrated Benedict felt about the weak PR for Sherlock in the US. -- source link