{"id":8745,"date":"2009-11-17T17:55:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/17\/bbc-asian-network-axe-silver-street\/"},"modified":"2009-11-17T17:55:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:55:02","slug":"bbc-asian-network-axe-silver-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/17\/bbc-asian-network-axe-silver-street\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Asian Network axe Silver Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Radio drama casualty in Network \u2018reorganisation\u2019<\/h3>\n<div><strong>THE BBC Asian Network has announced they are to axe their five-minute daily soap Silver Street.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The mini-drama will cease to broadcast in March next year after almost six years on the station. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The station said the move was an attempt to \u201cdeliver more impact and better value for money.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Silver Street will be replaced by new monthly single dramas. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cSilver Street has played an important role establishing\u00a0the Asian Network as a national station,\u201d Andy Parfitt, Controller, BBC Asian Network, said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cHowever, as with all long running series, it\u2019s important to assess their value and impact for the investment made and we\u2019ve decided that there is a better way to deliver drama to our audiences.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cWe remain committed to producing distinctive drama that our audiences will enjoy and full length monthly dramas will be produced for the Asian Network\u00a0instead.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>When launched in 2004, Silver Street became the corporation\u2019s first soap opera aimed at British Asian audiences. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Over the years a number of famous names, including Saeed Jaffrey and Bollywood star John Abraham, have appeared as special guests on the show. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio drama casualty in Network \u2018reorganisation\u2019 THE BBC Asian Network has announced they are to axe their five-minute daily soap Silver Street. &#13; The mini-drama will cease to broadcast in March next year after almost six years on the station. &#13; The station said the move was an attempt to \u201cdeliver more impact and better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}