Spelling, producer of countless TV series inc Hart to Hart, Dynasty, Beverly Hills 90210 etc etc, has died aged 83.

Most of us will have seen much of the stuff he produced, which was trivial at best.

I wonder .. is it better to produce something very average which has a huge audience, or something meaninful that very few people experience?

I guess it's akin to the question when making music...do you make something brilliant that people will look back at for decades and rate as a fantastic piece of music, or get dozens of hits with similar sounding repetitive tripe that sounds totally unoriginal ?

e.g.

David McWilliams...The Days of Pearly Spencer

and

The Hollies...Jennifer Eccles

One was a flop chartwise, the other a major hit

I wonder JK, did you deliberately start doing commercial stuff , which strayed away from your preferred musical roots, merely to get some money in?

If you played "Round Round" and "Una Paloma Blanca" to a hip trendy kid now...which one do you think they'd prefer ?

What pays the bills ? Critical acclaim or a media-slammed, success story of banal modern life ?

So Una Paloma Blanca, which I never liked myself, and Hooked On A Feeling, which I loved.
If I believed someone would love it, I made it (or worked it - like Chumbawamba) or pushed it.
Never did anything for money.

this guy made 154 shows and 140 films and his death didn't make headlines over here.christ what do you have to do,its pathetic.