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Why do we pay a TV tax?
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Spartacus_Mills wrote: »Brooker is a bit of a one trick pony. His schtick is becoming repetitive for me. I used to love Screenwipe but his latest effort on the news is telling us nothing we do not already know. He just appears to be an angry man ranting from the sidelines. I think he is talented, his Guardian column is still good, but he needs to know when to move on and change his format.
You've got to admit this is brilliant though[STRIKE]Seventeen[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]Eighteen[/STRIKE] Nineteen(!) year old student - dim at the best of times0 -
i cut my aerial cable sometime ago, i no longer bother with tv or the licence fee, if people dont like the BBC or the licence fee, they should do the same.0
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or just refuse to pay the tv license like noel edmundsMartin has asked me to tell you I'm about to cut the cheese, pull my finger.0
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Just one david attenborough type natural history series which sometimes take years to make is worth the licence fee.
Also, every top comedy show/sitcom that you could mention was made by the bbc
OK, I agree that the natural history series are good.
However......... the BBC's total income in 2008/9 was £4.6b. By my reckoning that is enough money to make about 184,000 episodes of Life on Earth. This year, we saw less than ten new episodes. So when are they going to show the other 183,990? Christmas day?
And don't get me started on BBC commedians.
Mark Steel - unfunny leftie
Markcus Brigstocke - unfunny, polictically correct leftie
Jeremy Hardy - Moderately funny lefty
Jo Brand - totally boring leftie
Mark Watson - unfunny leftie
Hugh Dennis - boring leftie0
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