Now although I am not anti-BBC...

...in fact quite strongly pro, you've hit another of my red buttons there...

This kind of television (strictly, Joseph, Maria, X factor, etc) quite clearly attracts a huge audience and is eminently commercially viable. ITV does the genre quite well.

So why are they spending my licence fee trying to compete with that rather than creating new, quality output that may not be commercial but is worth supporting?

Eh?

Really, I should move to Tunbridge Wells...

Posted By: Partial Angler on October 29th 2008 at 13:40:18

Message Thread

Re: The Russell Brand show (General Chat) - Thomo, Oct 29, 12:56:35
- The BBC is funded by a tax which was used to call a 74 year old man... (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Oct 29, 13:18:21
  - They didn't phone him to gloat and boast... (General Chat) - Declan, Oct 29, 13:56:01
  - But nor should it be used as an excuse to whip up an anti-BBC media frenzy (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Oct 29, 13:19:47
    - I don't want to bring the corporation down (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Oct 29, 13:23:04
      - I know you don't, and yes, it was a twatty thing to do... (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Oct 29, 13:25:04
        
        Anyway, it's all got rather grubby, no-one is going to come out of it well (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Oct 29, 13:32:27
        
        i'd give a fair bit of credit to Andrew Sachs... (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 29, 13:44:09
        
        Innit (n/m) (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Oct 29, 13:37:06
    - Crikey, (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 29, 13:21:05
      - That seems to be exactly what is happening. (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Oct 29, 13:21:49
        
        Blimey, does that include BBC4? (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 29, 13:24:31
        
        go see Satanic Sluts (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 29, 13:31:17
        
        Asian Sluts Four? (n/m) (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Oct 29, 13:27:47
- I thought i recognised her she was in the metropolis & Browns. (General Chat) - lovely old job, Oct 29, 13:16:20
- The Mail sniff BBC blood, world goes bonkers. (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Oct 29, 13:13:59
- Ross and Brand both have their heads so far up their own arseholes.... (General Chat) - Kirrie, Oct 29, 13:08:16
- We've done this one... (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 29, 13:06:40
  - and their grand daughter (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 13:07:10
    - I USED A CONDOM! (General Chat) - EtuWHO, Oct 29, 13:07:50
      - Andrew Sach's German isn't he? (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 13:18:13
        
        Not illegal though (General Chat) - EtuWHO, Oct 29, 13:20:31
        
        "That brazilian" (Jean Charles de Menezes by the way) wasn't illegally in the UK (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 29, 13:33:36
        
        haha, so he wasn't an immigrant either (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 13:41:51
        
        Yes, he was an immigrant - just not an illegal one (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 29, 13:44:09
        
        But he *did* look a bit foreign (n/m) (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Oct 29, 13:37:49
        
        Well, in truth (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 29, 13:40:29
        
        rofl (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 13:28:07
- I blame all these f***ing immigrants (n/m) (General Chat) - Daily_Mail_reader, Oct 29, 13:05:06
  - so do I they even ask for pay these days. (n/m) (General Chat) - lovely old job, Oct 29, 13:06:08
  - lol (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 13:05:26
- 5 Live were reporting that there were two complaints (General Chat) - Claygate_Canary, Oct 29, 13:04:11
  - So who's going to carry the can for the shit like strictly come dancing? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 13:05:13
    - Now although I am not anti-BBC... (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Oct 29, 13:40:18
    - Wes Hoolahan (n/m) (General Chat) - EtuWHO, Oct 29, 13:08:55
    - Matthew Gibson (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 29, 13:08:17
- 9 (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 29, 13:02:47
- Don't kill yourself (General Chat) - EtuWHO, Oct 29, 13:00:13
  - Meanwhile, in the real world (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 13:01:59
    - he isn't but don't let the facts get in the way (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 29, 13:05:03
- Brilliant logic (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 29, 13:00:12
  - I'm surprised Brand/Ross haven't trotted out the "you've taken it out of context" line yet (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Oct 29, 13:04:42
    - I'm looking forward to what Jon Gaunt and Richard Littlejohn think (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 13:11:19
      - Gaunt is another tosser who pollutes our airwaves (n/m) (General Chat) - wgf500, Oct 29, 13:14:28
      - John of Gaunt is dead. (General Chat) - Daily_Mail_reader, Oct 29, 13:12:42
  - It is Wrath logic though - (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 29, 13:01:58
    - And those that do go are told that their opinions are wrong (n/m) (General Chat) - wgf500, Oct 29, 13:03:28
      - The same impeccable logic at work. (n/m) (General Chat) - Daily_Mail_reader, Oct 29, 13:09:40
- So what............. (General Chat) - EtuWHO, Oct 29, 12:58:57
  - Failing that, deplore policemen stood court (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 13:00:28
    - who was an illegal immigrant (n/m) (General Chat) - EtuWHO, Oct 29, 13:02:16
      - Still laughing, absolutely says it all in a nutshell (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 13:06:40
      - who ate swans in his BMW (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 29, 13:02:56
        
        and pike from the Thames (n/m) (General Chat) - EtuWHO, Oct 29, 13:03:46
      - lol (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 29, 13:02:30

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