Came across this article.
It's high time fiction shows became stories with fixed no of episodes.That looks like the only way to improve the qulaity of entertainment.
Way back Doordarshan had this kind of format.Some of those shows are still remembered for their stories and characters twenty years later.Shahrukh Khan is a product of such shows.Those shows of his are still remembered not just for the sake of Shahrukh Khan but also for the heart touching stories and characters.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/In-daily-soaps-content-suffers-because-of-TRP/articleshow/55532612.cms
MUMBAI: When does a talented television writer get frustrated and want to quit? When the programming head begins flogging the subject but also demands "depth" from the writer. Since depth is not something in the air that the writer can switch on, the dumbing down begins and ultimately the writer gets frustrated and quits. These and other issues confronting writers who stradle literature and television were discussed threadbare at an interesting panel discussion between journalist-turned-author and televison writer Gajra Kottary and noted producer-director Vinta Nanda at St. Paul's Institute of Education and Communication on Sunday. The discussion was aptly titled "Can we please bring literature back to TV?"
Nanda began predictably by praising Kottary for penning successful short stories (Fragile Victories and The Last Laugh), novel (Broken Melodies), Hindi novel Kora Kagaz and soaps like Hamare Tumhare, Astitva and Balika Vadhu. But when did Kottary actually begin thinking of writing short stories and then for television? After she married and moved to Mumbai, Kottary, a Delhi girl and then a journalist found a good in-house critic in her husband. "You cannot go far as a journalist because you don't ask many questions," her husband Sailesh Kottary told her. Every one, including her husband seating among the audience, laughed.
The discussion turned more interesting when the two panelists came to the issue of dumbing down, both in literature and television. "Television thrives on drama while novel demands a different treatment. It becomes quite terrifying when minute by minute analysis of TRP is done. The content
suffers," said Kottary. Former journalist Carol Andrade who now heads St. Paul's Institute of Education and Communication wanted to know if audience have ever influenced her to change the content of a serial. Kottary recalled the barrage of protests-some people actually took morchas-when the male and female protagonists in Balika Vadhu were separated. "We didn't want to appear as if we endorsed child marriage. This was against the popular demand but we stood our ground," she said.Publishers use the gimmicks by getting bad books endorsed by famous writers. What to producers of serials do? "Many have tried famous stars in the serials but the gimmick has failed. It is the story which sustains a soap or serial, not gimmicks," Kottary said. Nanda suggested that successful serials like Balika Vadhu should be turned into books. Hopefully, someone will bite the bait.
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