Producing Little Britain beyond series 1 was a horrific waste of money.

Agree with that! :horay:

hardly fucking surprising TBH

They pay a few “star talent” (both creatives/managers) stupid amounts of money – then exploit others for fuck all (like most media organisations they use a significant amount of unpaid work experience people)

also a lot of stuff is outsourced/semi-privatised

so there is an atmosphere of internal politics, lying, mistrust and hate in there. It makes the worst elements of the free party scene look like paradise. because its a job people like doing everyone competes with each other to keep their work.

People even sabotage each others projects (although TBH that happens across the entire media industry) – with a company as dysfunctional as that its hardly surprising people cannot keep an eye on the budgets – TBH the same thing was happening to ITV a few years back but because the market “sorted it out” it ended up with the big companies and money men taking total control.

imagine if crews were funded by tax to do a free party but one group of people decided “right we wil run tings” so they trashed a few others rigs – OK maybe not as blatant as using petrol bombs them but cutting through signal cables, re-routed stuff or removing equipment so speakers were blown on peaks… that sort of thing often happens (on a more subtle scale) within the mainstream media

I once worked as a broadcast engineer and had some very strange support calls, including a very sheepish engineering manager admitting to me that a rival region had been deliberately tampering with equipment)

Auntie does try to be a bit more creatives takes more risks which is why they end up spending more – but they do fucking stupid things like commission a programme and pay for it, and then let it sit in archives without being TX’d because of some pointless disagreement.

Although I think a lot of their stuff is OK its not worth the license fee

it does need to be sorted out and maybe even to abandon the false pretence of being independent (perhaps make the BBC a non-departmental public body funded by Ofcom)

but you could still keep Auntie as an outlet for news, information and a training ground for new talent… thats what every other nation does with their public broadcasters and it hasn’t affected them that badly TBH

you mean the shock news that Terry Wogan earns £800,000?

the BBC makes good programmes and wasting the money on celebrity pisses me off but if it’s what the public want I have to accept that I’m in the minority

but you could still keep Auntie as an outlet for news, information and a training ground for new talent… thats what every other nation does with their public broadcasters and it hasn’t affected them that badly TBH

but most other nations’ public broadcasters are rubbish!

budget btw

just to be a gramma queen

In which case I’ll happily keep paying my license fee to ensure that the BBC doesn’t go the same way.

ITV is fucking terrible.

Well, I did have a flutter on the Grand National sweepstake that did the rounds here the other day. A whole quid…

Last of the big spenders, hey. =o)

i’d say that bbc3 has done more for innovative british comedy in the last couple of years than anyone else has, ever.

They have probably spent it on property development in Manchester. =o|

You’ve obviously living in a parallel universe to the rest of us then. Have you never heard of Newsnight, Today, PM, or Question Time?

:rolleyes:

Deutsche Welle had some good stuff – then again it was a few years since I last listened to them (the LAN in my old house was unshielded cable which killed shortwave reception). I have also let my German get too rusty 🙁

I’d much prefer to see a minimal licence fee being spent on programming that wouldn’t otherwise get made. That side of things has little to do with the commercial mass-market bollocks that ITV does so well.

thats exactly the sort of thing I would like to see the BBC doing

as for infrastructure they already spent a load of cash for that 8 years ago, but they could well have gutted out half their studios, sold the stuff off cheap and then paid over the odds yet again for new kit; they have a habit of doing stuff like this and thats where the money goes…

local radio could improve big time though – a few hours every weekend for local urban music instead of pandering to middle englands tastes all the time… I’d like to be able to hear D&B and techno on radio Suffolk at the weekends, not country and western – FFS Needham Market is not nashville even if you do have a cow or two…