howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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As already said the BBC did use to commission top playwrights to write challenging stuff, the Wednesday play, Play for Today and Second City Firsts spring to mind. Programmes covering the natural world particularly by David Attenborough would never have been made by a commercial channel because of the huge costs involved.
On the subject of dumbing down I have never understood why they do soaps which should be left to the commercial operators. Around 30 years ago Question Time used to be relevant under the control of Robin Day but the programme should have been dumped about 15 years once it was taken over by publicity seeking politicians that new how to use a sound bite and get an audience with limited attention span shouting and screaming. As for the One Show!!!!
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Andrew Neil. Worth every penny.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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Barrie Nicoll wrote:Wow Reginald ! That's a bit of a back handed compliment if there ever was one. I remember another overpaid BBC radio and TV presenter who raised millions for charity. In his case, the licence fees helped to fund his paedophilia.
Nothing backhanded or otherwise, his salary is ridiculous but he gives a lot back for the right reasons his charity work is just that not an excuse to get close to children.
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Barrie Nicoll wrote:Wow Reginald ! That's a bit of a back handed compliment if there ever was one. I remember another overpaid BBC radio and TV presenter who raised millions for charity. In his case, the licence fees helped to fund his paedophilia.
Why would you think of paedophilia when you think well paid person? It's not nice to stereotype.
The BBC provide some good TV, like other people have said, if you don't like it don't watch it. Don't get a TV license but then don't moan when you can't watch EastEnders
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I don't think of paedophilia in respect of a well paid person. I relate paedophilia to an overpaid BBC radio and TV personality who used charity work to cover up his disgusting and sick behaviour, and who was funded by us, the British licence payer. The BBC covered up everything he did for decades, the people doing the covering up were also paid by us, the mugs that pay the licence fee. I can't stop paying the licence fee if anyone in my house wants to watch live TV, or I will be in breach of an 'agreement' which no-one ever appears to have agreed to.
I said it was a back handed compliment just to point out that people (not only me) might associate overpaid talentless halfwit presenters who work on radio and TV and do charitable works with similar overpaid talentless halfwit presenters who worked on TV and radio and also did charitable works and who turned out to be sick perverted predators.
Not being a fan of mindless 'serial dramas', I certainly won't complain if I can't watch Eastenders, but I will complain that part of my licence fee funds the rubbish programme, along with an awful lot of other dross, and has paid, and will continue to pay a large number of talentless people far more money than they can possibly be worth, whether they work for charity or not.
(Low paid paedophiles are also available for vilification)
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Guest 2077- Registered: 4 May 2017
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Barrie Nicoll wrote:I don't think of paedophilia in respect of a well paid person. I relate paedophilia to an overpaid BBC radio and TV personality who used charity work to cover up his disgusting and sick behaviour, and who was funded by us, the British licence payer. The BBC covered up everything he did for decades, the people doing the covering up were also paid by us, the mugs that pay the licence fee. I can't stop paying the licence fee if anyone in my house wants to watch live TV, or I will be in breach of an 'agreement' which no-one ever appears to have agreed to.
I said it was a back handed compliment just to point out that people (not only me) might associate overpaid talentless halfwit presenters who work on radio and TV and do charitable works with similar overpaid talentless halfwit presenters who worked on TV and radio and also did charitable works and who turned out to be sick perverted predators.
Not being a fan of mindless 'serial dramas', I certainly won't complain if I can't watch Eastenders, but I will complain that part of my licence fee funds the rubbish programme, along with an awful lot of other dross, and has paid, and will continue to pay a large number of talentless people far more money than they can possibly be worth, whether they work for charity or not.
(Low paid paedophiles are also available for vilification)
Cover ups are everywhere, not just in the BBC. Are you sure your not an Eastenders fan? As it reads like you might be, I think you might be coving up your true love for it.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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T he J Saville stuff shocked a lot of people, and opened up a can of worms on how, even stars In those days together with the leading lights in the BBC covered up some very serious cases,
But on the salaries, these just cannot be justified in todays climate.
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