Chinny Rub of the week - There's no money to make costume drama...

I saw the producer of Wolf Hall complaining that there wasn't the money to do lavish exterior scenes like there was on the past...

Does he remember BBC classic serials of the past? I do.  Particularly remember the 80s production of Vanity Fair doing entire battle scenes in reported speech...

"I'm just off to the Battle of Waterloo, Miss Sharp"

"I'm just back from the Battle of Waterloo, Miss Sharp"

Also remember a very unconvincing adaptation of Beau Geste filmed entirely in a Dorset quarry filled with unconvincing sand castles...

The whole point of costume drama used to be that the costumes were the most expensive bit and you used local locations...