The BBC

oh yeah go4it

8.5 million of us now rent our homes - as fewer of us can afford to buy. This generation has been called generation rent.

In this film we meet the new army of private landlords who are riding this rental boom, who own one in every five properties.

Some landlords like Jim Haliburton AKA 'The HMO Daddy' have found there is serious money to be made. His property empire stretches across the West Midlands and he houses around 800 tenants. His property portfolio is worth £26 million.

The actor, who made his name in US crime drama The Wire, will present two hour-long shows with the working title Idris Elba: King Of Speed.

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop will present a three-part look at the British obsession with history and Fern Britton will challenge nine pairs of gardeners to grow their own fruit and veg on an Oxfordshire allotment before their work is judged in a country show-style competition.

There will also be a three-part series about cats and historian Andrew Roberts will examine the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

No motd2 tonight wtf

Bank holiday, biggest game of the weekend being played tomorrow.

a three-part series about cats

Can't believe the Beeb is denying us details of who will present this. Hoping for Paul F Tompkins as Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber.

The actor, who made his name in US crime drama The Wire, will present two hour-long shows with the working title Idris Elba: King Of Speed.

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop will present a three-part look at the British obsession with history and Fern Britton will challenge nine pairs of gardeners to grow their own fruit and veg on an Oxfordshire allotment before their work is judged in a country show-style competition.

There will also be a three-part series about cats and historian Andrew Roberts will examine the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

― There are a lot of subjective opinions (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 25 August 2013 21:03 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the bbc is over

These series would be infinitely more interesting if they just shuffled the presenters around.

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop will present a three-part look at the British obsession with history and Fern Britton

irl giggles ongoing

Cats will examine the life of Napoleon Bonapsrte

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24818769

the last line:

Sweetie will not be used again. She has done her job - showing the predators that they can easily become prey.

an opinion piece as the lead on the news website? or is it an opinion piece?

that is just creepy

accidentally saw part of a documentary about Myra Hindley the other night and there was a clip of the BBC's Michael Buerk starting the report of her death with "Probably the most hated woman in Britain" and i thought really? on the BBC??

Buerk's a bugger for that sort of guff, ever heard the moral maze?

occasionally, but this looked like it was from the ten o'clock news ffs

Britain on the Fiddle.
1/3. New series. The world of benefits cheats, who effectively steal millions of pounds in taxpayers' money every year. Reporter Richard Bilton goes on the frontline with investigators chasing a woman who won £95,000 on a game show but carried on claiming her `allowance'.

There seems to be a strategy in the BBC now to attempt to appease/appeal to the Tory/Daily Mail/UKIP lot.

dunno if any of you are young enough to still have dreams, but perhaps you know someone who really wants to be a journalist for the bbc.

if so: http://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/trainee-schemes/jts

this is how i got in - and now i am saving to do a totally different career but it definitely got the whole news thing out of my system.

seriously though it's a really good opportunity for your little brother or sister or whatever.

never too late: There is no age limit and the scheme welcomes career-changers who have ambitions to work in broadcast news but have been pursuing a career in other industries.

Would never work for that bunch of self-protecting creeps.

As a 23 year old with a BA in creative writing, an MA in American Literature and five years worth of writing experience, is it worth me applying?

Depends whether or not you're "fit."

never too late

hmm, i take that back

As a 23 year old with a BA in creative writing, an MA in American Literature and five years worth of writing experience, is it worth me applying?

Yeah I'd say so. I was 25 when I got in.

There is no age limit and the scheme welcomes career-changers who have ambitions to work in broadcast news but have been pursuing a career in other industries.

The year I did it there was an Irish solicitor who must have been mid or late 30s. As well as some people in early 20s. I reckon it's a lot more competitive now, I got in cos they didn't know what the internet was at this time and they needed people who could harness its dark magic. Little has changed I guess.

what are they looking for? not sure how you'd go about getting the right boxes ticked

As a 23 year old with a BA in creative writing, an MA in American Literature and five years worth of writing experience, is it worth me applying?

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 28 November 2013 11:17 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The fact you can claim all that and have the gall to elide the possessive apostrophe from "years'" indicates to me that your lying on you're CV

your lying on you're CV

clearly intentional dude

The fact you can claim all that and have the gall to elide the possessive apostrophe from "years'" indicates to me that your lying on you're CV

^^^^^ sentence clearly the work of a savage who uses "whilst" without shame

my novel is currently 92794 words long and heavens! one of those words is whilst. better nuke the lot. how many words is your novel stevie? :)

Novels! What a quaint caprice.

nothing on the BBC

^^^trenchant social commentary

meanwhilst elsewhere...

elsetwhere

int counter = 5;
int factorial = 1;
do {
  factorial *= counter--; /* Multiply, then decrement. */
} whilst (counter > 0);
printf("factorial of 5 is %d\n", factorial);

my novel is currently 92794 words long and heavens! one of those words is whilst. better nuke the lot. how many words is your novel stevie? :)

i'm all about the non-fiction, louis

> whilst (counter > 0);

you could stop at 1 given that that is the multiplicative identity...

Thought u guys would be arguing the relative merits of "is it worth me applying" vs "is it worth my applying" by now

[in all seriousness, and i just felt i should make this clear, you are all welcome to use 'whilst' wherever and whenever you like, it's just my own personal bugbear, and one which has arisen from subbing/rewriting too much copy where 'whilst' has been used to imply a certain level of 'cleverness' that is painfully absent in the rest of the copy]

you could stop at 1 given that that is the multiplicative identity...

― koogs, Thursday, November 28, 2013 3:43 PM (5 hours ago)

Well that's what I get for C&Ping code from Wikipedia without checking it. Oh hang on, someone's edited it...

Five years worth, btw, works either way afaic

No wait, I was looking at the 'while' page just now, which has the 'stop at 1' condition, but the code fragment I copied earlier was from the 'do while' page. Curses to you, Wikipedia! Is it too late to work in some kind of BBC++ joek?

xp C and C++ jockeys love to prematurely optimise code almost as much as assembler programmers

i don't get why the php example is so shonky.

i also missed the 'whilst' change in that original snippet and, therefore, the entire point.

anyway, back on topic. the 'an adventure in space and time' thing to celebrate dr who was good, lots of bbc tvc footage.

BBC News editor/former Times editor James Harding says that BBC News "can't be a free-form jazz band." Why not?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/09/bbc-news-nelson-mandela-complaints-coverage

(actually I agree with him on his central point; see also the people who complained that live coverage of NM's release back in 1990 meant postponement of Antiques Roadshow. They may even have been the same people)

850 complaints. log 'em and move on.

The BBC received about 850 complaints about the extent of its Mandela coverage, including its decision on Thursday evening to interrupt a repeat of sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys on BBC1 to bring viewers news of his death.
kind of lol but mostly sad

is BBC allowed to have product placements on their shows?

newsnight, for example, gave "flappy bird" or whatever it was quite a boost no doubt last night

hopefully nobody was paid for it