Unless it directly benefits Tories (put money into their, or their mates’ pockets), they couldn’t give rat’s ass.
All we can do is to hope that a new government is in power before they manage to sell and destroy everything for their own benefit.
If you like wall to wall mind numbing ‘celebrity’ contests, showcases for wannabe celebrities with obvious mental health issues or find banal dumbed down TV invigorating then I suppose it is OK.
Or you could look at TV from other countries, as long as you dont mind captions, which actually put some effort into their programming and production which on the whole is way better than anything we get on our TV apart from a few notable exceptions.
Easy, it’s shit. Why bother producing anything decent when you know people will watch the same old crap? It’s why I prefer streaming services over tv. BBC can kiss my arse if they expect me to pay a license.
It’s cheaper to make many regional ripoffs of Jersey Shore than it is to make well-written and well acted dramas or funny sitcoms. That’s pretty much it.
We have shown that we are still capable of making good tv but we opt not to.
Anyone good gets the payday elsewhere now as well on the other side of it.
British TV has always been shit. The internet has just made us realise that we don’t have to put up with it anymore.
I grew up in the 70s, when there were 3 channels and that was it. No web, no catchup, no DVDs, not even VCRs. The channels all shut down at 11pm. And despite there only being 3 channels, it wasn’t unusual for the BBC and ITV to both be showing the same football match at the same time.
I don’t remember many of the programmes being that good, tbh. They just got high viewing figures due to lack of competition.
And that was the supposed golden age, it has been getting worse ever since. But being shit isn’t a recent thing.
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Unless it directly benefits Tories (put money into their, or their mates’ pockets), they couldn’t give rat’s ass.
All we can do is to hope that a new government is in power before they manage to sell and destroy everything for their own benefit.
If you like wall to wall mind numbing ‘celebrity’ contests, showcases for wannabe celebrities with obvious mental health issues or find banal dumbed down TV invigorating then I suppose it is OK.
Or you could look at TV from other countries, as long as you dont mind captions, which actually put some effort into their programming and production which on the whole is way better than anything we get on our TV apart from a few notable exceptions.
Easy, it’s shit. Why bother producing anything decent when you know people will watch the same old crap? It’s why I prefer streaming services over tv. BBC can kiss my arse if they expect me to pay a license.
It’s cheaper to make many regional ripoffs of Jersey Shore than it is to make well-written and well acted dramas or funny sitcoms. That’s pretty much it.
We have shown that we are still capable of making good tv but we opt not to.
Anyone good gets the payday elsewhere now as well on the other side of it.
British TV has always been shit. The internet has just made us realise that we don’t have to put up with it anymore.
I grew up in the 70s, when there were 3 channels and that was it. No web, no catchup, no DVDs, not even VCRs. The channels all shut down at 11pm. And despite there only being 3 channels, it wasn’t unusual for the BBC and ITV to both be showing the same football match at the same time.
I don’t remember many of the programmes being that good, tbh. They just got high viewing figures due to lack of competition.
And that was the supposed golden age, it has been getting worse ever since. But being shit isn’t a recent thing.