In article ,
Andy Hall wrote:
At one time such arrangements were common on films, and the workforce
was 'bought out' to compensate. But TV seems to want the same sort of
arrangement without paying for it.

That is unreasonable. Is this because there is an oversupply of people
to do the work, cost pressure on the production companies or too many
production companies or ??

Due to the high pound and high taxation, features are pretty quiet and
have been for some time. So those who prefer to work on them are naturally
scrabbling around for any work going. And poorer paid TV stuff is better
than starving.

So yes, there probably is an oversupply of bods. Of course there are a
vast number of BOFs like me around who will be off the scene shortly - I'm
part of the BBC2 'boom' where the BBC had to near double their in house
production.

--
*Being healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.