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serynI finished the fourth "season" of Doc Martin last night. Really dislike the whole British 8 shows per season thing. Honestly, the TV people should own up. They only do one "season" per year anyway, they might as well call them that... but then people might expect something closer to 50 episodes. No reason a timeslot couldn't share with another 22 episodes per year show. And British shows could get 6 whole seasons of shows sharing a slot.
I did enjoy this, but less than the previous years'. Previously Martin would do what he felt was the right thing regardless of what was popular or acceptable. These episodes had Martin ignoring the pregnant Louisa which is clearly not the right thing to do and he knows better. I did like it when Martin walks out on the bitch queen Edith, because that was the right thing to do. I also liked Pauline's role in the end and how she handled him.
Supposedly there will be a fifth season, but they won't even start filming it until next year.
It's so weird to watch British shows when they do that. It takes about 2 years for them to air here, and usually the moderately popular shows seem to need the money from American stations showing the shows before they can decide whether to make more seasons. Then they need to re-option the actors and schedule everything else, which takes about 2 years before they even start the filming. Then it will take about 2 years before they're showing it in America again. So, not only are British seasons only about a third of the length of American programs' seasons, they only come out every five years. That's about 60 minutes per year on average.
Making the Harry Potter movies in England with only British actors must have been completely miraculous. They must have used every set and every camera and every film actor in the whole country to get 8 3-hour movies in 12 years. Maybe that's why there's such a delay, they don't have any crews for working on anything else.
I did enjoy this, but less than the previous years'. Previously Martin would do what he felt was the right thing regardless of what was popular or acceptable. These episodes had Martin ignoring the pregnant Louisa which is clearly not the right thing to do and he knows better. I did like it when Martin walks out on the bitch queen Edith, because that was the right thing to do. I also liked Pauline's role in the end and how she handled him.
Supposedly there will be a fifth season, but they won't even start filming it until next year.
It's so weird to watch British shows when they do that. It takes about 2 years for them to air here, and usually the moderately popular shows seem to need the money from American stations showing the shows before they can decide whether to make more seasons. Then they need to re-option the actors and schedule everything else, which takes about 2 years before they even start the filming. Then it will take about 2 years before they're showing it in America again. So, not only are British seasons only about a third of the length of American programs' seasons, they only come out every five years. That's about 60 minutes per year on average.
Making the Harry Potter movies in England with only British actors must have been completely miraculous. They must have used every set and every camera and every film actor in the whole country to get 8 3-hour movies in 12 years. Maybe that's why there's such a delay, they don't have any crews for working on anything else.
