Amanda Abbington - Stricly Bullying

Don't watch Strictly and can't stand Abbington - how do I pick a side here?

 

Ignore it on the basis it is old news?

It's all about Wynne and Katya now.

 

Was going to say, not sure what’s going on there but the public explanation from them is less than convincing.

 

I only really pick up on news once it's stopped being news, stopped being a meme and become a recycled meme.

 

Even meister parents, dedicated fans who've seen it live don't seem interested anymore.

An audience of whooping idiots watching narcissistic wannabes and unpleasant professionals, it's had it's day, like the rest of the BBC.

 

People still watch Strictly?

 

Yeah, the BBC has had its day,. Let's commercialise it and turn it into a crap ITV!!!

 

Mrs K does.

 

No lets fund it sensibly and run it intelligently. Needs a fundamental rethink form the ground up. It needs to concentrate of providing the service commercial companies won't or can't rather then try and compete for ratings. It's an old boys club living in the past.

I watch maybe 2 or 3 programs it produces and they're all sourced from their commercial arms. Their news coverage used to be the best in the world, now it's a vanity project for their presenters who name check every other word and are obsessed with opinion.

 

This doesn't make sense, if it is an old boys club living in the past, why is it competing for ratings? It would surely still be producing programmes hosted by Malcolm Muggeridge.

So how would you fund it then?

 

They feel they have to compete with commercial TV but don't understand commercial TV hence put out a couple of hours of trash a week to fill the purpose.

Stuff that is remotely successful but commercially viable they put out gets bought up by other channels. Bake off, The Voice. Probably Mortimer & Whitehouse gone fishing will be next.

Their news coverage is now *****. Their once excellent breakfast TV is unwatchable

Centrally from taxation.

 

One of the main headlines this morning is about how the GoCompare man had to apologise for not having a high five with his dance partner in this brain dissolving nonsense.

Says everything you need to know about the state the country is in.

 

I've never watched it but then again I doubt I'm the target audience.

 

Well given that Strictly effectively knocked out the X Factor from the schedules, I would say you are wrong about that.

Not sure how funding through taxation really makes much difference; the licence fee is essentially a tax as it is. Are you suggesting we need more governmental control over what is broadcast?

 

Can't see that it is any worse than Noel's House Party. Admittedly a low bar.

They should bring back Mike Yarwood and Summertime Special.

 

I never saw Sammy the Chamois having to publicly apologise for not cleaning Noel’s windows one week.

 

Strictly still gets 7m viewers each week, which is 50% of the audience share at that point, whether you love it, hate it, or are indifferent, it doesn’t seem like it’s a problem that needs solving, it’s popular and it’s on Saturday night, I don’t exactly think there is much of a clamour for anything more high brow in that slot, maybe we could get that show where people tried to fit through shapes in polystyrene back again though.

The BBC also produce plenty of great shows still, and about 50% of the content on Netflix is BBC stuff from about 5 years ago being shilled as new again.

 

I don't watch Strictly, have no idea who Amanda Abbington is or what the argument is about. So I'm totally lost

 

Craig is the best thing about it!

 

As the thread title suggests, bullying, basically. Supposedly being pushed around by her professional partner in last year's show.

You're obviously also completely oblivious to most news sources too!

 

Ditto

 

Mrs TUT not a fan? You’re lucky.

The newspaper gets a close reading on a Saturday evening.

 

Yes, oblivious is the word. I do check the BBC website every day just to check if WW3 has broken out or a world leader has been assassinated, but it's usually stuffed with stories about a pair of identical-looking hatchet-faced footballers wives suing each other over nothing, or someone who lost all their money due to a phishing scam and are now living in an airing cupboard in Ealing.

 

BBC has plenty of adverts on it now anyway. They advertise their shows all the time. It’s not adverts in the conventional sense like on ITV; however, it is advertising though and is still annoying!

 

Strictly Bullying is a great idea for a TV program.

10 celebrities have to spend their week with a school or workplace bully, seeing who can last the longest.

Elimination is based on a wedgie for the two lowest voted celebs

 

That’s always been the case though, and at least the on iplayer you can immediately skip the advert for a show before the show you actually want, unlike any other streaming service. Watching anything on 4od or ITVx is close to torture.

 

As I see it the problem the BBC has is that young people tend not to watch the TV
It is something people who are a bit older do and if you add non stop football and
good stuff on Netflix etc. So there is a dwindling market .

 

It’s not so much the adverts that are the issue, imo, it’s that commercialisation would negatively affect quality in a more general sense. To some extent that has happened anyway but, having lived in the US for a while, I can see the value of having at least one channel which is at least less market-driven.

 

I think people miss a lot of the BBC's output. News, web content, educational content, children's programming, radio, podcasts etc. We'd be a lot culturally worse off without the BBC, deaspite its many faults and foibles.

 

World Service, too. Even if that also isn’t quite what it once was.

 

Yes, apparently the BBC reaches 90% of UK adults in some shape or form every week, I don’t think people realise what parts of it they use themselves, and all the different parts everyone else uses. Someone might hate strictly and think it’s a waste of money, but happily use another part of it without even thinking.

Also, yes it’s predominately licence fee funded, but BBC studies made just over £2bn from selling programmes overseas in their last set of accounts, which is just over a third of their total revenue, which of course helps to partially fund them and, the content grows for everyone as a result.

 

Soft power. Broadcasting messages to the Africans and Asians to gently gaslight them into missing the old Imperial masters.

 

They make £2bn a year from selling programmes that we’ve paid for? That’s an amazing ROI. Will the licence fee come down because of it? Can we finally say goodbye to Mrs Brown’s Boys?

 

They've put all £2bn into commissioning wall to wall episodes of Mrs Brown's Boys from now until 2045.