There has been debate
over the years that Film is dying, TV is taking over the world and TV is well
truly wiping the floor with film.
Breaking Bad showed a character transforming over two years of his life in a way that could never be achieved in film.
Hollywood is reliant
on brand recognition, churning out endless sequels and spin offs and reboots
because it's easier than marketing an original idea. TV, meanwhile, is far more
eager to take a punt on something new.
At its best, a TV show
can veer from comedy to thriller to horror and back again. Films, with their
desperate need to be marketed properly, tend to simplify to sell. A show such
as Breaking Bad didn't have those constraints. Even though one
episode made you laugh, the next could have you hyperventilating with abject
fear and have you on the edge of your seat.
The state of British
TV is leagues ahead of British film. Downton Abbey, Top
Gear and Doctor Who are fast becoming truly global sensations.
The intimacy of television, combined with the amount of time that actors
spend in specific roles, means that viewers can become far more invested in
television characters than film characters. Viewers become attached to
characters within TV, so when certain things happen to them within the text, it
impacts their life and the way they react in a very different way to which they
would within film.
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