Amanda Abbington - Stricly Bullying

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by wfcmoog, Oct 14, 2024.

  1. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    I assume it would simply go up without it, would probably be fairly daft to not sell very lucrative products to overseas buyers, though.
     
  2. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Typical Labour.
     
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  3. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    I see the BBC in the same way as the Royal Family. An old, past it, corruption and sex scandal ridden organisation that costs way more than it should. Yet they have a handy group of loud advocates who shout from the rooftops about a mythical ROI that supposedly tells the story that it provides much more than it costs.

    But despite this supposed amazing value, there’s never ever a chance that they’ll risk making the financing of said amazing ROI enterprise optional and rely on stories of the past and the general thickness of the public to sustain the expense.
     
  4. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Sorry, we are selling Mrs Brown's Boys to the ROI for £2bn ??? Good business husbandry.
     
  5. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Sadly, he’s been loned back fml
     
  6. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Thought it was already Irish.
     
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  7. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    So, do you like the BBC or not, get off the fence man !
     
  8. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Exactly. No language issues.
    Fantastic business.
     
  9. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    I see them in the same way as I see the Royal Family as well, in that if they didn’t exist, regardless of their financial burden to the taxpayer, or mythical ROI, my life would be exactly the same, I wouldn’t be better off for any of the taxpayer money saved, anymore than the NHS is £350m better off every week now. So, I choose not to care and get wound up about it, in the same way that anyone who truly gets no value from the BBC can avoid terrestrial television and the BBCs existence, if it bothers them that much, but if they were disbanded tomorrow their life would be the same as it was before.
     
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  10. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

  11. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Is this consistent with post 30, which you liked?

    Your life wouldn't be any different provided someone else delivered all the things that the BBC does that you currently consume. But there's no guarantee that that would happen.
     
  12. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Probably worded it badly, but meant from the point of view of someone who hates the BBC and wants them defunded etc. their life would be no different if that happened, but there are people that benefit from it.

    I’m indifferent to the Royal Family, they probably have some value as a tourist attraction, but if we sat down and did a properly costed P&L on them and worked out they cost money, disbanding them wouldn’t make my life any different, so I choose not to care or worry about them because some people probably do gain enjoyment from them.
     
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  13. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    The only thing any of us need is WFCForums, and that's FREE !
     
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  14. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    And yet here you are, in even a small way, defending both despite not caring. I don’t hate the BBC in the way that you mean it, I don’t like the way we’re forced to pay for it and the way it’s talked about like some wonderful thing that we can’t do without lest the skies fall. Like with the Royals, rationality and logic have to be suspended when discussing it.

    It’s a tv channel with dancing and football on it. Let’s stop pretending it’s the Ark of the Covenant.
     
  15. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    But that's only true even of the 'haterz' if they consume no BBC content at all. And, as you posted earlier, 90% of adults do so every week.

    I don't think the analogy holds, really.
     
  16. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    AND ITS LIVE
     
  17. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    That's only one small part of what it does.
     
  18. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

  19. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Well it wasn’t really my analogy, was more trying to say I don’t give a toss about the Royal Family, but equally don’t mind they exist. I think it’s slightly odd to hate the BBC so much, when clearly so many other people use it.
     
  20. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    I sense you do give a toss about the BBC though...
     
  21. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Is that 90% broken down at all? Because I’d love to know if it’s ’someone uses the website to check news twice a day and that’s it’ and falls into that 90% therefore that justifies the £6bn a year it supposedly costs.
     
  22. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Yes I do, I’m a user of it and feel I get reasonable value. I don’t give a toss about the royal family though, take no interest in them and couldn’t care less if they existed or not, but their tax burden doesn’t bother me in the slightest, if they didn’t exist it would make no difference to me, and their existence does benefit a number of people in a number of different ways.
     
  23. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    I think you need to check your tariff, that sounds a bit steep.
    I suspect the 90% will be a number the BBC have come up with, to justify itself, and will include posts on this forum on the subject
     
  24. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Dunno, wasn't my figure! You may well be right.

    To be serious, there is certainly something here about generational change in consuming media. We listen to a lot of BBC radio and regularly use the website but actually rarely watch live TV (although we use iPlayer a lot): Strictly is one of the very few exceptions. I am sure those (many!) who are younger than us consume news from other sources, listen to radio hardly ever if at all, and use other streaming services much more. As those trends intensify, the licence fee certainly becomes less and less legitimate as a mode of funding.
     
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  25. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    None of the subscription services work any differently, unless you count stuff like paying extra for film premieres on Prime.
     
  26. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

  27. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    I expect a lot of the BBC traffic is the 10 oclock news, internet sports pages etc. Whilst they may be the go-to for these, viewers would simply go to Sky or elsewhere if the BBC didn't exist and other than changing their routine initially, would barely notice a difference.
     
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  28. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    I agree, I just think it’s a bit daft to highlight as it’s obvious it will be a sliding scale, but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t provide value for a lot of people. One other stat on there says 33m separate people access iplayer at least once a week, so that’s half the country, again Strictly gets £7m viewers per episode, which is half the people actually watching live TV at that point.
     
  29. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    "During a reading of the script while in character as Agnes Brown, O’Carroll is said to have said ‘I don’t call a spade a spade, I call a spade a...’

    He then started to utter the N-word before he was stopped by a co-star, whose intervention was allegedly delivered while in character as Agnes’ daughter."
     
  30. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    OK, I was trying to imagine a scenario where it would really be bad enough to merit such a story, but that actually is.
     
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  31. Vic

    Vic First Year Pro

    Hate Strictly with a passion. But even my wife has lost interest in that one.
    Hate Mrs Brown’s Boys, but fortunately she never watched that, so it doesn’t affect my life.
    BBC coverage of the Euros was woefully inferior to ITV this year - this was deeply disturbing to me.
    BBC weather forecast is not as accurate as the Met Office app. (But the hurricanes hack was quite good entertainment at last).
    Gary Lineker is an arrse.
    Terry Wogan is dead.
    Dr Who has always been ****.
    Jimmy Saville always gave me the creeps.
    Laura Kuensberg is evil and ugly.

    Apart from that I’m ok with the BBC. I especially like the coverage they give to their own scandals.
     
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  32. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    He’ll be fine. Viewing figures are the important thing here.
     
  33. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Free at the point of use.

    Advertising funds the hosting and software.
     
  34. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Quite so...
     
  35. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Nothing is worse than Matterface. FACT. End of.
     
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