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There are just so many things the BBC in its current form is doing wrong I don't know where to start: - Paying too much for too little (both quality and

There are just so many things the BBC in its current form is doing wrong I don't know where to start: - Paying too much for too little (both quality *and* quantity of "talent") - Repeats, repeats and more goddam repeats in increasingly short timeframes - Recent actions such as putting Spitting Image on BritBox (paid commercial service), it should have been on license-paid TV ! I certainly refused to pay for it. - Taking Political Correctness to extremes. Whether race, gender or disability it has become like *every* BBC programme has to fill a quota. Don't get me wrong, diversity is important, but do you really have to cram every form of diversity into every single programme to the point where it starts feeling forced and artificial ? - Turning BBC News into a joke (newsreader reads summary, over to "our correspondent" who has been expensively transported to the scene to tell the viewer *the same thing*, then back to the studio for someone else on the BBC's payroll to tell the viewer *the same thing* again). During the COVID lockdowns, I can probably count on one hand the number of hours of BBC programming I watched. Everything else came from Apple/Amazon/Netflix and perhaps one or two services. If you want the BBC summarised in a nutshell, just look what happened when DoE died. They cleared their schedules across pretty much all TV and radio channels ... to broadcast the exact same mirrored content ... for god knows how many hours it was (48 ? 72 ?). Completely nuts. I mean one channel fine .... but the entirety of your major broadcast channels?

carnitine 5y ago
I think the BBC needs to reject the premise of celebrity entirely and start summarily getting rid of people when they start demanding exorbitant fees. Particularly for programmes which are factual, Huw Edwards and Gary Lineker are simply not worth their fees, people are tuning in for the content.
caoilte 5y ago
Spitting Image is made by ITV not the BBC.
ChrisKnott 5y ago
If you watch less than 5hrs of BBC content a year, perhaps you aren't best placed to comment on it? This criticism is so hackneyed it could have been copy pasted from a 2002 Daily Mail comment section.
- traceroute66 5y ago
  > If you watch less than 5hrs of BBC content a year, perhaps you aren't best placed to comment on it? I see the point I was making flew right over your head. The point is that I am aware of exactly what the BBC schedules during the year, but none of it is attractive (i.e. either repeats and more repeats, or just generally unattractive content).
bb492 5y ago
I can tell you as someone who works at the bbc is that the reason it feels like there’s a quota, is because there basically is. Well rather a target. Same for hiring (50% women and 20% minorities). And we’ve been explicitly told managers are evaluated based on hiring and promoting to meet these targets

There are just so many things the BBC in its current form is doing wrong I don't know where to start: - Paying too much for too little (both quality *and*

carnitine 5y ago

I think the BBC needs to reject the premise of celebrity entirely and start summarily getting rid of people when they start demanding exorbitant fees. Particularly for programmes which are factual, Huw Edwards and Gary Lineker are simply not worth their fees, people are tuning in for the content.

caoilte 5y ago

Spitting Image is made by ITV not the BBC.

ChrisKnott 5y ago

If you watch less than 5hrs of BBC content a year, perhaps you aren't best placed to comment on it? This criticism is so hackneyed it could have been copy pasted from a 2002 Daily Mail comment section.

traceroute66 5y ago
> If you watch less than 5hrs of BBC content a year, perhaps you aren't best placed to comment on it? I see the point I was making flew right over your head. The point is that I am aware of exactly what the BBC schedules during the year, but none of it is attractive (i.e. either repeats and more repeats, or just generally unattractive content).

bb492 5y ago

I can tell you as someone who works at the bbc is that the reason it feels like there’s a quota, is because there basically is. Well rather a target. Same for hiring (50% women and 20% minorities). And we’ve been explicitly told managers are evaluated based on hiring and promoting to meet these targets