ITN Report on Aaron Spelling

Is this a sign of things to come? I was watching the early evening ITV News from ITN and they’d put together a report on Aaron Spelling, the TV producer extraordinaire who made so many hits in the 70s and 80s. They came to Starsky & Hutch, but the clip they showed had obviously come from the internet. It was hideously pixilated. To compound matters someone had gone out and got an interview with David Soul.
Over on C4 where the news is also put together by ITN, someone had either been in touch with Sony Columbia TV who would normally supply the clip, or perhaps they’d just popped out to the nearest HMV and bought a Starsky & Hutch boxset.
But then we got onto Dynasty and Beverly Hills 90210, and both clips were sourced from the internet. The commentary talked about fans keeping the series alive by putting clips on websites, but just going to YouTube or wherever is not good enough. Surely there are tape libraries that you can get decent quality clips from, even on a Saturday? It’s not like the package was put together in five minutes since news of Spelling’s death was on Breakfast TV this morning.
A sign of the television times?


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