TV actors are feeling the pinch.
Along with the rest of us, they’ve been hit by the recession.
Thanks to cost cuts by all the major television companies, fewer dramas are being made this year and next.
Which means a drop in the number of roles on offer.
In a profession which is massively oversubscribed in the first place.
Not to mention the knock-on effect on a wide range of other people, including writers, production crews, office staff, caterers, location drivers, post-production, publicity etc.
So it’s good to be able to report some positive news.
Moving On is a series of five BBC1 daytime dramas screened over five days next week.
I’ve seen the first one – The Rain Has Stopped – and it would not be out of place in primetime.

As you can read in yesterday’s MEN TV feature here, it stars Sheila Hancock and Bhasker Patel.
With the other dramas featuring the likes of Lee Boardman, Mark Womack, Julia Ford, Christine Tremarco, Richard Armitage, Dervla Kirwan, Lesley Sharp and Joanne Froggatt.
Spooks and Robin Hood star Richard plays John Mulligan in the third film – Drowning Not Waving.
John is a man who appears to be the perfect solution to his old school flame’s financial problems.

“I enjoyed the simplicity of the storytelling – this could be happening on a street near you, at this very moment,” says Richard.
“This felt like a re-invention of the afternoon play.”
Moving On is made by Liverpool-based LA Productions.
Executive producer Jimmy McGovern, the award-winning writer behind Cracker, Hillsborough and The Street, is honest about his intentions.
“There’s just a dearth of work.
“On Merseyside, since the end of Brookside, we’ve got loads and loads of writers and they’ve got nothing to write on.
“And, of course, it’s going to get worse.
“So the main thing was to give work to people and to allow five potentially very good writers the opportunity to find their voices.”
A new series of award-winning The Street, filmed in and around Salford and Manchester, is due on BBC1 later this year.
But it could be the last ever after redundancies at ITV Granada, which makes the drama for the BBC.
Including the departure of highly regarded co-creator Sita Williams.
Back in daytime, Moving On series producer Colin McKeown and all those involved are to be congratulated for giving us a fine piece of television.
That includes writers Karen Brown, Marc Pye, Sarah Deane, Arthur Ellison and Esther Wilson.
Colin had to work with a budget he describes as “hardly anything”.
Adding: “The whole of the series would probably be equivalent to one episode of The Street.”
You may not be around when these dramas screen on BBC1 at 2.15pm each day next week
But if you’re in the UK and at work or elsewhere, set the hard drive recorder or whatever and check them out.
Then let me know what you think via the comments box below.
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