Outlaws

The comments and letters pages of trade magazine Broadcast have been bristling with columns and letters mainly expressing disbelief that the BBC have not commissioned a second series of Outlaws from World Productions.

World are rather bitter about this.

You know, a cynical person might think that there was some sort of organised campaign happening.

Now I haven't seen this series, although I do think it suffered from the BBC Three to BBC 2 transition that means that the first publicity bite of the cherry sees it doomed to get smallish audience figures. The second set of publicity can't be as great when it reaches BBC 2, so that damages your audience possibilities as well.

But if this as a good a drama series as everyone's making out, then shouldn't Channel 4 be snapping at World Production's heals to grab the series?