new actors

It's because casting is done by the accountants.

It seems to be the same with presenters. We go through spells of seeing a presenter virtually every day on different channels. All very good I hasten to add ! But there must be more than Ben Shepherd, Bradley Walsh, and Holly Willoughby . They seem to hop between serious shows and game shows

I read an account of a lecture that Derek Jacobi gave recently where he decried the recent trend in London theatres to cast non thespian 'celebs' in leading roles regardless of their talent or abilities, instead of seasoned actors, but he acknowledged the need to 'get bums on seats'. That's what it is all about, both on TV and in the theatre. We recently went to see a Pinter play on stage. I find Pinter hard going and but for the additional hook of seeing Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen perform it I might have thought twice about going. That may seem shallow to some, but it's probably a lot of people's attitude also.

Because well known actors attract audiences grannyknot
People will watch Happy Valley because of Sarah Lancashire not A.N Other. Downtown Abbey for Maggie Smith, Last Tango for Anne Reid or Derek Jacobi etc
Butbthey have not all been around for decades. Jennifer Kirby is a relative newcomer (the new midwife in CTM) and has only been out of Drama school for 4 or 5 years but has already acted for the RSC and Regents Park open air Shakespeare.

Tales of fiction, serials, and features about interesting, REAL people!

FARVIEW its magazines that are my bugbear,I asked my OH to pick me up a few as I'm stuck at home sick ,,he brought me four ...they all had versions of the same stories about the same people ,Kate,Colleen Nolan,Pippa Middleton, Denise Walsh and Harry's new bidey in.Total waste of money.What did magazines publish before all this celebrity worship ?

..see the same faces..constantly on magazine covers too i.e GH and W&H...?

Speaking as someone whose DD has been training as an actress, I do agree with the OP. It is very difficult for new actresses to break into the industry because it is 'safer' to cast someone who is a known quantity.

Or to put it another way, why are the same people cast all the time, and how will e.g. the ones you name become well-known if they're not cast in popular shows or series?

So mawbroon that is the question - why do we see the same ones all the time then?

I could not agree less!
There are some brilliant actors out there -stage and tv also probably film, but I don't go very often - but because they are not necessarily yet well know names, perhaps they don't register with us viewers
Jennifer Kirby, Josette Simon, Joanne Froggett, Robert James-Collier, Joshua McGuire, Alex Waldmann among them.

I hope it's a long time before Olivia Coleman turns up in anything. I seem to be the only person on the planet who doesn't think she's a great actress.

Nicola Walker's (Last Tango in Halifax) stammering at the beginning of every sentence when she's protesting about something is also tedious and predictable.

I know what you mean. The pool is very small and I sometimes find myself thinking "not her again" - it's usually a female.

Talking about gestures, I watched an interview with Russell Crowe a while ago, where he spoke about an actor's "tell" - the actor's own gestures and mannerisms that cannot be easily hidden. His is that he spreads his fingers across his forehead and rubs his forehead. I can picture him doing it now.