Americ-aussie
Sat, 1 Oct 2005, 05:40 pmWalter Plinge10 posts in thread
Americ-aussie
Sat, 1 Oct 2005, 05:40 pmWhy do people in charge of casting choose an american over an aussie to play an australian character?
Australian actors struggle to get work while americans are just swimming in it and then casting directors have the nerve to do this. Take a moment and think about how many people in this site alone desperately want to be actors and actresses and that is one site alone. Out of all the want- to- be- actors only about 3-6% make it and the rest struggle to survive, juggling 3 jobs and still hoping they will get a break!
GIVE AUSSIES A FAIR GO AMERICA!
P.S I would also like to add that there are only a few australian dramas on tv at the moment. aka blue heelers, all saints, home and away and neighbours.
Home and away has been bought 5 years in advance and Neighbours is loved so much by britain that they have bought it 10 years in advance so that only leaves all saints and blue heelers.
Producers are now thinking about cutting either blue heelers or all saints because you don't need more than one aussie drama on channel 7. All saints's rating have sky rocketed so they are untouchable now so that leaves blue heelers on thin ice. Blue heelers has been on channel 7 for as long as i can remember and it will be a shame for all the talented actors and actresses on this show to lose their jobs.
Australian actors struggle to get work while americans are just swimming in it and then casting directors have the nerve to do this. Take a moment and think about how many people in this site alone desperately want to be actors and actresses and that is one site alone. Out of all the want- to- be- actors only about 3-6% make it and the rest struggle to survive, juggling 3 jobs and still hoping they will get a break!
GIVE AUSSIES A FAIR GO AMERICA!
P.S I would also like to add that there are only a few australian dramas on tv at the moment. aka blue heelers, all saints, home and away and neighbours.
Home and away has been bought 5 years in advance and Neighbours is loved so much by britain that they have bought it 10 years in advance so that only leaves all saints and blue heelers.
Producers are now thinking about cutting either blue heelers or all saints because you don't need more than one aussie drama on channel 7. All saints's rating have sky rocketed so they are untouchable now so that leaves blue heelers on thin ice. Blue heelers has been on channel 7 for as long as i can remember and it will be a shame for all the talented actors and actresses on this show to lose their jobs.
Re: Americ-aussie
Sun, 2 Oct 2005, 01:02 pmThe reason why we see so much of American content on TV here is two main reasons - Americans produce shows that are cheaper to buy (you only pay for the cost of airing the show, which can be covered by advertisement spots, whereas buying a show from Australia is much more expensive as you would be paying for the actual cost of producing the show - another reason why 'reality' TV is so readily available, it's cheaper to produce than a drama), and that Australian television networks have a 'quota' that they have to fill with Aussie shows - which is practically nothing, something like 10-20% of all network time. Also, as the US makes more free-trade agreements with Australia, and the biggest networks are owned by American companies, more and more of Aussie TV goes down the drain, with less and less money and time on offer to produce it.
Don't blame casting agents - blame the executives and the government who allow it. You also have to remember that there is a smaller percentage of Aussies in America than Americans - and that we are only viewing a small percentage of American shows here, what with the Americans having more than 100 free-to-air stations, plus all the cable channels they have. The fact remains that it is tough to get into the industry no matter where you are.
Don't blame casting agents - blame the executives and the government who allow it. You also have to remember that there is a smaller percentage of Aussies in America than Americans - and that we are only viewing a small percentage of American shows here, what with the Americans having more than 100 free-to-air stations, plus all the cable channels they have. The fact remains that it is tough to get into the industry no matter where you are.
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