Soap cutbacks are a real tragedy for TV, warns BAFTA award-winning writer The impact of TV drama cutbacks on soaps is "a real tragedy", according to critically acclaimed writer Jack Thorne.
Two years after the end of Holby City, this year the BBC axed Doctors and cut the number of Casualty episodes.
"It's a really, really hard time being a writer in this country… and I think that's going to be a real problem, it's been something that's been growing for a while.".
While it is, of course, all kicking off on the cobbles and at The Queen Vic as you'd expect at this time of year, off-camera it's been quite the tumultuous time for those working on a number of long-running dramas.
"So many people got their first breaks particularly on Doctors, from writers to camera assistants, through to the assistant director department, to producers," she says.
