Someone Explain
How does Law & Order go for 20 seasons and Cracker only 3? I've watched all three seasons over the past couple of weeks and I can't believe how many more recent shows have borrowed from the Cracker (eg. House).
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Given the quality of the last few installments (especially True Romance and the two one-off specials), probably a good thing they quit while they were ahead. Maybe if Jimmy McGovern stayed on as a show runner, but Paul Abbott seemed interested in turning Cracker into a banal procedural show.
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It's the British way unfortunately. Our shows tend to be written by one or two people instead of a team and the budgets are ridiculously tight so making a lot of episodes under those conditions is very teaching I'd imagine. It's not just Cracker that deserved many more episodes but didn't get them - Luther, Fawlty Towers and Dead Set to name but three
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