The BBC

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.

The same cunt who wanted to check asylum seekers' teeth to see how old they were, I believe:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3921030/Tory-MP-leads-furious-backlash-against-BBC-biased-coverage-Donald-Trump-s-election.html

Christ, when someone makes the BBC look left wing you know you are really dealing with absolute scum. That ITV Washington correspondent should have also mentioned that Trump had the active backing of NAMBLA, or least that was what was reported on the election thread a couple of months back.

I guess the ITV guy has the advantage of knowing that David Davies MP and the Mail are not going to be taking him to task for alleged bias if he says anything critical/accurate about Trump.

Expressing his anger at the BBC, Mr Davies told WalesOnline: 'All I know about Donald Trump is what I've seen through the British media, which is heavily biased against him.
'On the BBC it was clear that the TV presenters were appalled by his election.
'Yet many millions – half the American voters – must have believed they had good reasons for voting for him. Let's wait and see how he performs in the job before condemning him out of hand.'

jeez, what an oaf. (does he not have an internet connection? surely that would allow him to bypass Britain's biased media and find out some information about Trump from a more trustworthy source)

UK politicians who have officially come out as being on the Trump train: Farage (obviously), Jacob Rees Mogg, David Davies - anyone else?

... Jeremy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon

I don't think that hamfisted Corbyn/Milne statement was actually meant to sound pro-Trump tbf, but yeah it does sound a bit like courting the legit-concernists, which is quite depressing.

Corbyn statement just seemed like an example of the evergreen "the lesson of this big event is that my pre-existing political views are correct" bit that everyone from every part of the political spectrum does when something dramatic happens. Liberals and conservatives are all doing their own version of this as well.

Any media savvy person would know that the line about punishing political elites would sound like a Trump endorsement on this day though? Mind when your Communications expert is Seumas Milne, just expect inept garbage every time there is a press release and you might still be disappointed.

the existence of BBC4 enables BBC2 to get stupider and shitter, once BBC4 becomes wall to wall Awesome AOR Sounds of the 70s and Scando versions of The Bill the Beeb will have to make a new highbrow channel and so on and on until infinity or the licence money trickles away to nothing

this is coming soon, no idea if it will be any good of course

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/civilisations

love Beard, hate Schama, don't know the other guy's work but I'm grateful for pretty much any history doc that doesn't have Tony Robinson in it

Bartlett is good as well imo. Schama is a fucking tool and a crap writer, crap historian to boot. Just a perfect match for the BBC in this era, really.

The A Word really fucks me off. Lets stick to the N Hornby parameters of cutesy twee autism in middle class boys that is already total cliche, and then have the gall to label it "challenging drama".

god i could not watch that programme, musical cringe factor was so strong i was pleading with my wife to turn it off after two minutes. keep that shit on 6music where it belongs and i never have to hear it

yeah I have seen no need to engage with that cobblers until some well-meaning randomer will reference it to me at work

not even going to guesstimate the number of times people have asked me "have you read The Curious Case of that Dog?"

Come come, we should all be pleased to pay our licence fees for programming like this http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jxnv4

Oscar-winning Dame Judi Dench is one of Britain's best-loved actresses, but few people know that Judi holds another great passion, a deep love for trees. This programme, filmed over the course of a year, is a magical study of the changing seasons and their effect on Surrey, the most-wooded county in Britain. Judi has long been fascinated with trees...

Judi Dench: My Passion for Wood