Good, it’s an absurdity. All channels should do the same.
Our shows ARE distinctively British as it is. You can tell when they’re British, even when they get taken and adapted for other countries you can still tell they were once British.
The demand is just a Dog Whistle.
Considering channel 5 is either Yorkshire’s biggest hill or some other Yorkshire branded show or a trashy royalty documentary I doubt it could do more UK focused stuff if it tried.
Isn’t telling capital how to operate basically communism?
So you can watch your British TV with your British cheese and a massive plate of British fish from all of those extra fish that the fishing industry has been able to get (they’re just pretending to be at breaking point for dramatic effect)
What’s ‘distinctively British’? Hunting the poor through the Cotswold on horseback while knocking back Pimms?
With everything that’s happening right now it’s frankly disgusting that they’re wasting time with things like this
what’s wrong with having some more britishness?
What’s more British than ‘Peasant benefit cheats do Benidorm’? I have it series linked.
Leave it up to the government and it’ll be ‘gentle sit coms’ 24/7.
You knurr nuthin’, John Whittingdale.
When you have shows made up almost entirely of British actors speaking in British accents (and others basically pretending to be British), like GoT and The Witcher, don’t they count?
British tv is some of the best in the world already.
It’s the 21st century, people will watch what they want to watch, not what the government wants them to watch.
Just name every fifth character Tarquin I’m sure that’s their only measure of Britishness here.
There are so many American shows on Freeview these days that I get worried that I will end up with an American accent.
And this week some Tory M.P. stood up in parliament and suggested the return of the national anthem at the end of late night shows on the B.B.C. I’m not one for conspiracy theories but….
We do that just fine already. Think of how big The Great British Bake Off is, it is also distinctly British and it would be a very different show if it was thought up by Americans first. Our comedy is also top-notch, the fact that it is willing to point out the government’s mistakes (regardless of who is in power) does not make it less British. The government don’t want British TV, they want British propaganda.
Oh no. No, no, no.
The last time I watched C5, was for some (very soft) softcore skin flick, late on a Friday night. Thankfully, none of them were British.
The government: We want more distinctly British TV!
Also the government: Let’s sell Channel 4 to an American media giant.
There are some British based shows I’d like to see return or made. Robot Wars for example, or some more military type things like Bluestone 42, Ultimate Force (as goofy as it was) or some British styled Band of Brothers type thing, since that’s my interest and it feels like it never gets permitted these days.
But… “Distinctively British”? The hell does that even MEAN? That’s less about what show and more about being “seen” to be wanting it sounds like.
Why should a television channel have to support any kind of forced cultural agenda, just let them do whatever they want, freely.
What more do they want? We already have the most absurdly draconian tv rules you could imagine.
Want to livestream a Mexican news broadcast on your phone, but *haven’t* paid your BBC subscription? That’s illegal, a criminal offence.
When they can define it beyond “Starring british actors and filmed in the uk” then we can talk. Throwing a smorgasbord of shows at us tells us nothing.
Channel 5 do loads of British tv. Can’t pay we’ll take it away, nightmare tenants slum landlords, bargain loving brits abroad, rich holiday poor holiday, benefits Britain life on the dole, police interceptors, traffic cops, Jeremy vine show, British boxing (the only free to air boxing on tv). They also do worlds strongest man, more international than ‘British’ but a Scottish bloke (I mean fucking giant) won it this year, and I like that show.
Why does the sub now default to ‘sort by controversial?’
UK TV channels can churn out whatever culture wars dross they want.
I haven’t paid for a TV license in nearly a decade. Thanks to online streaming services, I can financially reward people who produce content I actually want to watch, instead of Songs of Praise.
Who watches Channel 5 these days? What are the big shows? It seems like this weird void of low budget shows and films no one cares about. Over Christmas, I was flicking through the telly (don’t have proper TV at my place), and they were advertising Shirley Valentine, which is a film I’ve not about since I was 3 when my grandparents had it on VHS.
I just associate it with Family Affairs and softcore erotica after midnight, from back in the day.
What the tories want is more Downton Abbey guff, more lifestyle pieces about the aristocracy and upper-middle-class trials and tribulations of being a coffee-morning mum in a blue and white stripy Joule top and Range Rover. They’d probably like more Can’t Pay, We’ll Take It Away, Benefits Street and a northern version of the Squid Games where Geordies and Scousers compete for elocution lessons to make them more appealing to the people in the South-East..
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Good, it’s an absurdity. All channels should do the same.
Our shows ARE distinctively British as it is. You can tell when they’re British, even when they get taken and adapted for other countries you can still tell they were once British.
The demand is just a Dog Whistle.
Considering channel 5 is either Yorkshire’s biggest hill or some other Yorkshire branded show or a trashy royalty documentary I doubt it could do more UK focused stuff if it tried.
Isn’t telling capital how to operate basically communism?
So you can watch your British TV with your British cheese and a massive plate of British fish from all of those extra fish that the fishing industry has been able to get (they’re just pretending to be at breaking point for dramatic effect)
What’s ‘distinctively British’? Hunting the poor through the Cotswold on horseback while knocking back Pimms?
With everything that’s happening right now it’s frankly disgusting that they’re wasting time with things like this
what’s wrong with having some more britishness?
What’s more British than ‘Peasant benefit cheats do Benidorm’? I have it series linked.
Leave it up to the government and it’ll be ‘gentle sit coms’ 24/7.
You knurr nuthin’, John Whittingdale.
When you have shows made up almost entirely of British actors speaking in British accents (and others basically pretending to be British), like GoT and The Witcher, don’t they count?
British tv is some of the best in the world already.
It’s the 21st century, people will watch what they want to watch, not what the government wants them to watch.
Just name every fifth character Tarquin I’m sure that’s their only measure of Britishness here.
There are so many American shows on Freeview these days that I get worried that I will end up with an American accent.
And this week some Tory M.P. stood up in parliament and suggested the return of the national anthem at the end of late night shows on the B.B.C. I’m not one for conspiracy theories but….
We do that just fine already. Think of how big The Great British Bake Off is, it is also distinctly British and it would be a very different show if it was thought up by Americans first. Our comedy is also top-notch, the fact that it is willing to point out the government’s mistakes (regardless of who is in power) does not make it less British. The government don’t want British TV, they want British propaganda.
Oh no. No, no, no.
The last time I watched C5, was for some (very soft) softcore skin flick, late on a Friday night. Thankfully, none of them were British.
The government: We want more distinctly British TV!
Also the government: Let’s sell Channel 4 to an American media giant.
There are some British based shows I’d like to see return or made. Robot Wars for example, or some more military type things like Bluestone 42, Ultimate Force (as goofy as it was) or some British styled Band of Brothers type thing, since that’s my interest and it feels like it never gets permitted these days.
But… “Distinctively British”? The hell does that even MEAN? That’s less about what show and more about being “seen” to be wanting it sounds like.
Why should a television channel have to support any kind of forced cultural agenda, just let them do whatever they want, freely.
What more do they want? We already have the most absurdly draconian tv rules you could imagine.
Want to livestream a Mexican news broadcast on your phone, but *haven’t* paid your BBC subscription? That’s illegal, a criminal offence.
When they can define it beyond “Starring british actors and filmed in the uk” then we can talk. Throwing a smorgasbord of shows at us tells us nothing.
Channel 5 do loads of British tv. Can’t pay we’ll take it away, nightmare tenants slum landlords, bargain loving brits abroad, rich holiday poor holiday, benefits Britain life on the dole, police interceptors, traffic cops, Jeremy vine show, British boxing (the only free to air boxing on tv). They also do worlds strongest man, more international than ‘British’ but a Scottish bloke (I mean fucking giant) won it this year, and I like that show.
Stilton? -No.
Gouda? -No.
Wensleydale? -No.
Emmental? -The cat’s eaten it.
Why does the sub now default to ‘sort by controversial?’
UK TV channels can churn out whatever culture wars dross they want.
I haven’t paid for a TV license in nearly a decade. Thanks to online streaming services, I can financially reward people who produce content I actually want to watch, instead of Songs of Praise.
Who watches Channel 5 these days? What are the big shows? It seems like this weird void of low budget shows and films no one cares about. Over Christmas, I was flicking through the telly (don’t have proper TV at my place), and they were advertising Shirley Valentine, which is a film I’ve not about since I was 3 when my grandparents had it on VHS.
I just associate it with Family Affairs and softcore erotica after midnight, from back in the day.
What the tories want is more Downton Abbey guff, more lifestyle pieces about the aristocracy and upper-middle-class trials and tribulations of being a coffee-morning mum in a blue and white stripy Joule top and Range Rover. They’d probably like more Can’t Pay, We’ll Take It Away, Benefits Street and a northern version of the Squid Games where Geordies and Scousers compete for elocution lessons to make them more appealing to the people in the South-East..