Does my licence fee really go towards making such rubbish?

trisontana

And the bad news is that yet another season of "Britain's Got Talent" starts next Saturday night on ITV.

brokeinyorkshire

trisontana wrote: »

And the bad news is that yet another season of "Britain's Got Talent" starts next Saturday night on ITV.

OMG Noooooooooo. :eek: :eek: :eek:

Please spare us from that load of drivel with narcissitic presenters and the sheep in the audience...

Trouble is that people watch it and actually LIKE it!!!

Beggars belief!!!!!!!

savemoney

Saturday night is about the worse night for tv. That program is a great advert for Andrew Lloyd Webber to get people into his shows, how much did he pay BBC for that? Probably nothing

Then we have the usually dancing on ice, and that other dance thing and X factor rubbish

I usually avoid tv on Saturday accept odd recording done previously or dvd film

hoyles10

trisontana wrote: »

And the bad news is that yet another season of "Britain's Got Talent" starts next Saturday night on ITV.

That's not to bad then... It's Man City V's Man United on Saturday lunchtime so at least if BGT is on when I get in i'll be trollied and either fall asleep in my kebab or I just won't remember watching it the following day :beer:

wuckfit

trisontana wrote: »

Meanwhile, over on BBC4 you could have seen two excellent programmes - Wonders Of The Solar System and the Swedish version of Wallander

I keep forgetting about BBC4. The swedish Wallander, is of course, way better than the Ken Branagh version. That's not to say that Branagh's is rubbish, but certainly the Yellow Bird episodes I've seen have been, well more realistic.

pimento

We watch and awful lot of BBC3 and BBC4 in our house. The rest is just cack.

DVardysShadow

pimento wrote: »

We watch and awful lot of BBC3 and BBC4 in our house. The rest is just cack.

Never mind. Get a TV with a bigger screen.

Abbafan1972

I love Dancing on ice and Britains got talent, as it's just sooo funny!

Darksun

savemoney wrote: »

Saturday night is about the worse night for tv. That program is a great advert for Andrew Lloyd Webber to get people into his shows, how much did he pay BBC for that? Probably nothing

The BBC got in quite a bit of trouble for that in the previous series, they've apparently got around it this time by advertising a load of other west end shows as well.

sookipeaspud

Of all the BBC channels, bbc1 tries to hard to please everyone and is loses its way every now and then. BBC3 & BBC4 are good channels. BBC radio is excellent. BBC websites are very good too. The BBC also provide very good period dramas aswell.

The licencing fee is pittance in comparison to what I benefit from the BBC. I pay for Virgin media and used to pay for sky. These are truely companies that charge a subscription to watch a bigger selection of channels. However these channels contain on average of 14 minutes of adverts in an hour of viewing. That is 25% of viewing. The BBC provide a full hour of program material and can be joy to watch since there are interuptions, for instance watch the 'Blue planet' on BBC then watch it on a discovery channel - two completely different viewing styles.

Generally, paid for television is aimed for masses with short attentions spans and loud advertising to break up their attention. BBC is not.


Thank you.


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