The BBC

Why not DUP? Forgot them - they would have been next after Liberal Democrats based on the 2010 election.

every single quote in this is awful

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/27/bbc2-controller-kim-shillinglaw-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson

The reason why Mary Beard can crack a joke about Roman sex lives and – you know – penises, is because, you know what? She bloody knows her stuff about Rome.

Easy on my balls, they're fragile as eggs.

tbh when they take the licence fee off them i can probly use the extra 12 quid a month

Right-o. If someone promised to come up to me and grab me by the balls, I'd view them with extreme mistrust.

Happy egg balls day NV

o shit I forgot it was egg balls day

New BBC2 shows include Phone Shop Idol about the search for Britain’s best mobile phone salesman, Chinese School in which Chinese teachers attempt to turn around UK schools, and Britain’s Hardest Worker, about low pay.

What can you say, really?

I came across this the other night - feel that rather than "injecting emotion" into their films and "grabbing people by the balls" documentary makers would be better off aiming for this kind of considered, nuance pace, and thoughtful non-sensationalist handling of the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0iPm7hUN0U

TODAY'S AGING PUNKS DON'T GOT NO TIME FOR THOUGHTFUL NON-SENSATIONALIST HANDLING GRANDAD

TELL US THE TROOOOOOTH

and BBC4, which she also oversees

explains a lot. Particularly the incessant, tediously reverent documentaries about PUNK ROCK, MAN, PUNK CHANGED EVERYTHING ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

It's not just punk it's full of incredibly banal programmes about any kind of pop music.

The Dave Clark Five one was a classic of it's kind. Produced by Clark Enterprises.

Clark has been a hotshot music media producer for ages, hasn't he? I think he bought up the rights to all the episodes of 54321 just before the first 60s nostalgia boom in the 80s and profited hugely off its reruns.

Yeah, I remember the reruns of "Ready Steady Go" (to give it it's official title), and in place of the break between parts one and two, there would generally be a song or documentary insert of one (only one) of the leading groups of the sixties with a leader that was the drummer...

It's just as well I video-taped them all, they never came out on VHS as a set (apart from one general collection, and one specific Beatles one), and never at all on DVD.

Although Inverdale will remain as a commentator, Balding will present a new highlights show, called Wimbleon 2Day.

Would like to have been at the meeting where they came up with this controversial new name for a show.

"WIN"-bledon

kings of wimbleon

Keep calm and wimble on

Thy Wimbledon

womenbledon for the women's highlights and wimbledmen for the men's.

actually no, we've gone way beyond that as a society -

"people playing tennis"

I swear this was an actual thing in the W1A series just finished.

That series ended REALLY abruptly imo.

I think all the series of it and TwentyTwelve had oddly hanging endings, but you're right, this one just stopped mid-conversation - when Anna Rampton said she was taking him to the restaurant?

exactly! i was checking iplayer for a fifth episode for days until it dawned on me

Treasury approved use of the licence fee

lol

going to defend that as the underlying message is that social housing is good and necessary

For people who 'deserve it'.

It's 'Saints & Scroungers' all over again.

'Saints', fucking repulsive.

see, there are GOOD GUYS
and then there are BAD GUYS

there are BRITISH VALUES

could be improved by setting several families against each other to compete for one house, get them to dig up dirt on each other

can see why govt wants to reduce this bastion of left wing opposition, the moral conscience of the nation

"On the trail of a tenancy cheat"

They should do a series about rich people buying up discounted social housing to make a killing on the open market, for the sake of fairness. "The BBC strives to be fair to all... etc x0===

agree 100000000000000000000000000%

where is the fucking prestige doc on this, it touches basically everyone's lives

> They should do a series about rich people buying up discounted social housing to make a killing on the open market

homes under the hammer

https://twitter.com/BBCNewsMagazine/status/739839557487763456

if not in bad taste, the tone of this is certainly pretty weird, right?

yeah it is. feels like it's biting on US style true crime programmes, but BBC+English setting makes it feel weird, and the whole thing is a bit queasy.

#content

a friend just shared this

http://tonygarnett.info/tony-garnett-on-the-bbc-files/?platform=hootsuite

fascinating insight into the historical politics of the Beeb

Rona's off:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/13/rona-fairhead-to-stand-down-as-bbc-chair

The favourite to take over is currently chairman of BAE Systems - though he has formally ruled himself out already.

I don't know where else to say this, but Andrew Neil's obvious delight when Trump started pulling ahead made me so fucking angry and it was hard to not start yelling at the TV at about 4:30am. Always hated that fucker.

hard to imagine what common ground andrew neil might share with a man with uniquely awful hair, a baseball cap fetish and a penchant for younger women

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/andrew-neil.jpg

Yup. Andrew Neil is...not good. (Trying to manage my anger today).

just caught the end of ITV news at 10, and one of their Washington correspondents going in on Trump surprisingly hard, noting that Trump "had the active support of the KKK" and was key in popularising the "racist birther myth", warns against "normalizing" Trump.