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Proposed Theme Park Would Put BBC Shows On Display
According to the Guardian, a "developing deal" for a theme park located in Kent could transform various BBC shows into Disney-style in-person experiences. Says the article: BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has struck a deal with a Kuwait-backed property developer to allow a range of its programmes and characters to be “brought to life” at a new £2bn theme park and holiday resort to be built by the Thames estuary in north Kent, in partnership with Paramount Pictures.
London Resort Company Holdings has signed a development agreement with BBC Worldwide to feature the corporation’s intellectual property at the London Paramount Entertainment Resort, which promises to “combine the glamour of Hollywood with the best of British culture."
Shows named include Top Gear, Sherlock, and Dr. Who; I think I'd rather visit a theme park that was entirely based on Monty Python's Flying Circus, but a Top Gear racetrack or simulator would be fun.
I'm picturing it being funded by the British public who will of course be charged an entry fee and later will see none of the profits.
I'm disgusted that the ambulances seen in this show set in the 1950s were 1950s ambulances that don't meet modern safety standards in a crash. They should have insisted on modern ambulances.
I watched a series on Netflix from the BBC called "Call the Midwife". It was a story about midwifes in the late fifties. One of the midwifes was a chain smoker and even smoked around children. I find it hard to watch a program where it shows people smoking as it does not in my opinion add anything to the story. It just shows their almost total disregard of their advertising of cigarettes. It is also a sell out to the smoking industry.
It's hard to tell if you're trying to be ironic or something here, but, as you said, the program was set in the 1950's, guess what?, people smoked back then..a lot of them (hard to get an exact figure quickly, but say between 45-50% of the adult population as a lower best guess) and smoked a rather large amount (20-40 a day habit quite common in that generation).
'..even smoked around children..' is a modern affectation, firstly it wasn't perceived to be harmful (thanks to the propaganda campaigns mounted by the tobacco companies) besides, even children smoked (and still do), it was perceived as being part of growing up..yer first fag..(In my case, being a contrary bugger, my first cigar..aged 9 or so)
A drama set in that period where no-one smoked wouldn't look echt..
It's drama, attempting to portray another time and place based on someone's memoirs of said time and place, so what do you want?, revisionist history where none of the things we now consider 'wrong' to exist?, a nicer, happier, Disneyfied past c/w a nice clean London East end, full of nice clean, healthy smiling ragamuffins and unrealistically nice, clean non-smoking adults?
Btw, I'm a non-smoker..despite the cigar incident alluded to above, despite being brought up in, and around households where every adult smoked (bar one of my grandmothers, the other, as they say here, she 'smoked like a lum').