Most members of this panel are marketing and research division employees.

On working days, Dissanayake gets a few of the panelists to watch one episode of up to 15 tele dramas until 4.30 pm, reports say.

On the following morning, they handover their chairman the tele dramas they like, which he approves for telecast.

Producers and directors are opposing this act, by the first official appointed to a state sector institution by the good governance regime.