Originally Posted by scrotnig
Remember though they are only guidelines. I'm sure some shows will be allowed some leeway, perhaps Doctor Who will be one of them.
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Not guidelines.
Rules. They say "guidelines" but really they mean "you gotta do this or we'll mess with your head even more".
Point A: On the
BBC WALES SPECIFIC guidelines (bear in mind
Doctor Who is produced by BBC Wales) it even has this helpful reminder:
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Companies not following these instructions will have their programmes rejected and will have to make corrections at their own expense.
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See that? If you don't follow, you'll get rejected. Simple as. Granted, the BBC Wales guidelines are for BBC Wales transmission not BBC Wales production ("
not network commissions") though to be honest I can't see why BBC Wales would reject your work and the normal BBC pass it. If anything I would expect it to be the other way round.
And it also states at the top of the normal BBC article:
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All pre-recorded network programmes for BBC One, Two, Three, and Four delivered on or after Friday 1st June 2007 should conform to the new guidelines.
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ALL. All of them. No programmes will be let off the hook,
Doctor Who included.
Eastenders is often a bigger audience puller than
Doctor Who, and it isn't being let off, so why should
Doctor Who? Hell,
Eastenders is even
used as the template for the credit guidelines.