Spoilers Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner
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If and it is a big if a TV license inspector comes to your door, you do not have to let them in, they are completely powerless. "Do you have a tv?" "No" "can I check?" "No." Close door. Job done.
It's a shitty service run badly.
It's a shitty service run badly.
^^That is the very thing you cannot do without a tv licence, watch or record anything in the UK that is transmitted over terrestrial airways as it is all under the tv licence, and that includes even watching something on your phone in your home, as there is no free tv options in the UK to watch tv, it is simply pay or do not watch............plus the BBC are hard at work trying to get streaming services under the TV licence banner also, meaning that even streaming netflix or Disney into your home would mean you need a tv licence, and they are also trying to move the licence fee over into being a public service like water, lekky or gas, so everyone has no option but to pay it, something similar to the lekky and gas meter standing charge, it is a utter mess, and all done to keep a greedy not fit fir purpose and out of date corporation in their money.
The BBC should have had the UK tax payers apron strings pulled from its hands decades ago.
The BBC should have had the UK tax payers apron strings pulled from its hands decades ago.
UK-Bros.. what happened to you guys?
If the show can only survive if Tennant is in the lead role then frankly it deserves to die.
You think that's bad? They used to have to have a radio license just to listen to the radio until 1971 (according to wikipedia). Can you imagine having to make sure every person who bought a car with a radio had a license to have the radio? Or every electronic alarm clock/radio combo sold requiring you to go get a radio license? It's weird to my American brain.
Which is weird, cos I didn’t think there were any B/W sets still capable of receiving a signal, so you’d have to be connecting a box or stick to get anything on it.
As to other parts of the world:
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Probably how we will end up, because it’s basically the same set up.
Yes, and there are certain news organisations and political organisations that are critical of the BBC precisely because they want to end the licence fee. Not because they care about people having to pay it, but because an independent broadcaster that doesn't need to rely on advertising or sponsorship can't be bought.
Whenever you see yet another post telling you that Dr Who is woke/failing etc (or any other BBC show, or the corporation in general), ask yourself why does this person/organisation care?
That's not to say you shouldn't criticise the BBC or the show, but there are those out there that have a wider agenda.
Just not very good broadcasting.
Can’t be bought.
But… can be, for want of a better term, infiltrated and ideologically shaped. (Which isn’t to say I think it’s some great Left Wing Conspiracy (TM) but at the same time, it always leans a particular way in places until someone decides to straighten it up a bit.)
They found other ways to buy in anyway.
Saying all of that, I am *very* fond of the Beeb, but think it’s been on a hiding to trouble since the push for, and the embracing the rise of, the new independents in the nineties.
As it stands, it’s a business with government protections and monopolies, rather than a public serving body.
Even ITV and similar were better off under the varied models of the eighties and early nineties, whereas now it’s all gone a bit Pete Tong. Not least due to death of a thousand cuts of what was the rather excellent Advertising Industry in the UK.
Oddly, that’s the era RTD cut his teeth in, then in part helped remove, and doesn’t seem to have caught up with how audience works now. By his own admission in some areas, and by obvious observation of his work in others.
