Turkey’s Supreme Board of Radio and Television, or RTÜK, has launched a pilot study of the long duration of serial episodes in Turkey, addressing complaints from viewers.
“Our institution considers viewers’ concerns, rather than just those of broadcasters, bringing new regulations to address their demands as well,” said RTÜK Chairman Davut Dursun, according to an Anatolia news agency Sunday report.
Dursun said viewers regularly complain to RTÜK about the long duration of serial episodes, adding that they had received almost no complaints from serial actors and only a few indirect ones from serial crewmembers.
Dursun said RTÜK’s International Relations Unit had started researching how serial durations and other working conditions were defined in other countries. “We will decide which [regulations] can be brought in for serial episode lengths once the situation is clear.”
Members of the Turkish Scriptwriters’ Association, or Sen-Der, in November 2010 protested their working conditions, pointing out that most episodes of popular TV series now run approximately 90 minutes, with some stretching to three hours.
Ministers support actors and set personnel
The culture and labor ministers supported the writers and actors’ protests against the lengthy 90-minute single-episode runtimes and have promised to reform the related legal framework accordingly.
Culture Minister Ertuğrul Günay criticized the long duration of serial episodes in Turkey, noting that serial episodes last 45 to 50 minutes abroad, compared to 90 minutes for Turkish serials, according to a daily Hürriyet Sunday report.
“They work day and night without rest, this violates human rights,” the minister said, promising that he would do his best to change the situation. “A serial [episode] cannot last for 90 minutes. This would be torture for both the audience and the serial’s cast and crew.”
The Ministry of Labor and Social Security is conducting an investigation into the working conditions and extremely long working hours of actors and crew on serials, according to Minister Ömer Dinçer. “I also support the [cast and crew’s] protests and I promised I would help them if [the ministry’s intervention] is needed regarding such working conditions,” the minister said.
Since 2004, when the country’s broadcast watchdog mandated a minimum of 20 minutes between advertisement breaks, the channels have been elongating episode run times on dozens of Turkish series to make up for lost income without considering the effects of the inflated workload on the writers and set workers, said Sen-Der.
“Our institution considers viewers’ concerns, rather than just those of broadcasters, bringing new regulations to address their demands as well,” said RTÜK Chairman Davut Dursun, according to an Anatolia news agency Sunday report.
Dursun said viewers regularly complain to RTÜK about the long duration of serial episodes, adding that they had received almost no complaints from serial actors and only a few indirect ones from serial crewmembers.
Dursun said RTÜK’s International Relations Unit had started researching how serial durations and other working conditions were defined in other countries. “We will decide which [regulations] can be brought in for serial episode lengths once the situation is clear.”
Members of the Turkish Scriptwriters’ Association, or Sen-Der, in November 2010 protested their working conditions, pointing out that most episodes of popular TV series now run approximately 90 minutes, with some stretching to three hours.
Ministers support actors and set personnel
The culture and labor ministers supported the writers and actors’ protests against the lengthy 90-minute single-episode runtimes and have promised to reform the related legal framework accordingly.
Culture Minister Ertuğrul Günay criticized the long duration of serial episodes in Turkey, noting that serial episodes last 45 to 50 minutes abroad, compared to 90 minutes for Turkish serials, according to a daily Hürriyet Sunday report.
“They work day and night without rest, this violates human rights,” the minister said, promising that he would do his best to change the situation. “A serial [episode] cannot last for 90 minutes. This would be torture for both the audience and the serial’s cast and crew.”
The Ministry of Labor and Social Security is conducting an investigation into the working conditions and extremely long working hours of actors and crew on serials, according to Minister Ömer Dinçer. “I also support the [cast and crew’s] protests and I promised I would help them if [the ministry’s intervention] is needed regarding such working conditions,” the minister said.
Since 2004, when the country’s broadcast watchdog mandated a minimum of 20 minutes between advertisement breaks, the channels have been elongating episode run times on dozens of Turkish series to make up for lost income without considering the effects of the inflated workload on the writers and set workers, said Sen-Der.
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