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Public service broadcasting at it’s best, God knows how much they’re paying Hunty to keep him out of ITV’s clutches.
You would have thought someone at the BBC would have shown some initiative and shown the Arc when C4 said they weren’t covering it, they could have even had Hunty commentating (without Cornelius of course).Does anyone still think the BBC licence fee is good value for money? Just how much do they waste on these so called “celebrities? I reckon it should be abolished.
…abolished and replaced with what? Subscription and/or adverts would only further accelerate the dumbing-down that media types feel is the only way to put bums on couches. BBC TV isn’t what it was but remains as good as it gets and I’m more than content to pay £3 a week. It’s overlooked by many I think that the Licence also pays for BBC Radio which in my opinion remains an untarnished jewel
The cult of trashy celebrity and rampant infatuation with pandering to the lowest denominator that’s poisoning the media is, I reckon, partly responsible for the mental health crisis afflicting youth: tawdry, sleazy superficiality as aspiration
The BBC would go up in my estimation if they showed a classy racing programme from Chantilly instead of the poor fare that they are scheduled to show. But …
Not the best of examples I think. Follow the money! However much it costs the BBC to show the Arc it is still paying money out and getting no return for it. Paying Matt Le Blanc is an investment because he helps make a successful programme that is shown and/or licenced to over two hundred other countries by BBC Worldwide. I would guess the income from other countries for Top Gear is in the high tens of millions of pounds every year. With Top Gear, Doctor Who, Sherlock and David Attenborough nature programmes being just the tip of a huge iceberg, it is probably mostly foreign viewers paying for whatever the BBC broadcasts.
Anyone who disagrees with the TV Licence for whatever reason is free to turn their television off and stop paying it. Racing isn’t very popular, Matt LeBlanc and Top Gear are. The licence fee is better value than a Sky subscription which is a damn sight more expensive and still full of repeats and adverts. (I am aware that we can’t put out new programming 24/7 but ‘endless repeats’ is often an argument used against the licence fee)
I hate everything the bbc stands for. The stance on everything they take makes me want to vomit.
The wildlife stuff is high quality, as for the rest, they can stick it up their moral highground arses.Sorry chaps.
Jeremy Paxman yesterday slammed the licence fee. He said it was an “absurd mechanism”. The veteran broadcaster added it is the only item of furniture, the TV, on which a tax is levied by force of law.
“So then how can the BBC be funded? There are multiple technological solutions. Some are already employed by Netflix and Amazon. I cannot see how much longer people can keep paying a tax on TV’s”.
I agree with Paxman, if some are happy for Le Blanc and the like to be paid millions and are happy to contribute they should be allowed to but we all shouldn’t be forced to.
The BBC may as well have advertising instead of the proliferation of annoying, repetitive previews of upcoming programmes.
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