With the Strictly/Xfactor, there is a point there, but with the baking

... against what is the BBC competing for ratings? Itv don't have a Wednesday night Flan Factor whose market share the BBC decided to go after.

I don't understand why a popular BBC programme qualifies for the seemingly perjorative appellation "ratings chasing".

Is it not the case that the BBC started a small cheap niche interest show, of exactly the kind that is being lauded as an example of good public interest programming, about baking on BBC2 on a weeknight evening, which unexpectedly became incredibly popular? But now it's "not what the BBC is for", when all that has changed is its popularity (and a promotion to BBC1 - surely that isn't the decisive factor?).

Posted By: Arizona Bay, Sep 4, 11:08:26