Seems like that should be up to the people.
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Seems like that should be up to the people.
In theory it is, via Parliament elections.
You are entitled to question the BBC at all times, as they are a tax payer funded orginisation, steeped in decades of child abuse and sexisum against women, so god help us when the day comes when such corporations cannot be questioned publically, but the day is coming for the BBC, it is just a matter of time now on how many tax payers drop watching uk terrestral tv every year, and as of 2024 the tv licence sits at under 24 million, with a drop of 500,000 from 2023, so it is already on the back leg, and this drip drip drip will will only continue with the help of that yearly increasing licence fee, as there will come a time when increasing the cost of the tv licence fee onto the backs of those still paying it, will eventually have those people cancell it also, it's the law of diminising returns, the BBC is a dinasaur refusing to move out of the way of the incoming meteor, they are the makers of their own demise simply because they refuse to move on from a funding mechanisum that is now 80 years old. Lol
I know I wouldn't want to be required by law to pay for CNN, even if CNN made some cool tv shows and movies sometimes. Making people pay for BBC by law seems wrong to me. The British do have some weird laws when it comes to individual rights and free speech. Is it a leftover by product of once being a monarchy?
For sure when it comes to some of the crazy state laws that pop up in every state. The U.S Constitution is pretty rock solid though. That is because it's designed to be a living and breathing document. It can change with amendments so past mistakes can be changed.
Seems strange to suggest the Constitution is at once rock solid but also malleable?
And obviously any piece of UK legislation can be amended (and often is) or repealed. Which is why we no longer have a Witchcraft Act
Do you have a link for any of that?
Beat me to it!
The UK technically still is a monarchy, complete with a King, though they're more symbolic than anything these days. Allegedly.
Agree that the BBC is a hoary old monolith incapable of adapting or evolving in any meaningful way, & the very idea that it could be considered even a little "left-wing" is bewildering to me, but it's hard to get into that without being more political than is probably allowable or wise. Suffice it to say it does exactly what its told, even if that is to its own detriment.
The more I mull it over, the less sure I am making a deal with any streaming service is a good idea. Given how, for want of a better word, fickle those services can be - witness how often shows continue to be abruptly cancelled, leading so many viewers to question getting into a series in the first place - and how their business models seem less than sustainable, I doubt any of them could be a viable long-term partner.
Lastly, why would we assume that any and all issues, real or perceived, with DW are mostly or entirely because of Davies? External factors are clearly having a pronounced effect, as they have for a fair while now, and if there aren't executives at Bad Wolf, or far more likely the BBC, meddling, I'd be very surprised indeed. The age-old conflict between creative interests and commercial ones.
Agree that the BBC is a hoary old monolith incapable of adapting or evolving in any meaningful way, & the very idea that it could be considered even a little "left-wing" is bewildering to me, but it's hard to get into that without being more political than is probably allowable or wise. Suffice it to say it does exactly what its told, even if that is to its own detriment.
The more I mull it over, the less sure I am making a deal with any streaming service is a good idea. Given how, for want of a better word, fickle those services can be - witness how often shows continue to be abruptly cancelled, leading so many viewers to question getting into a series in the first place - and how their business models seem less than sustainable, I doubt any of them could be a viable long-term partner.
Lastly, why would we assume that any and all issues, real or perceived, with DW are mostly or entirely because of Davies? External factors are clearly having a pronounced effect, as they have for a fair while now, and if there aren't executives at Bad Wolf, or far more likely the BBC, meddling, I'd be very surprised indeed. The age-old conflict between creative interests and commercial ones.
There may not be any truth in the claims made by someone codenamed Daniel RPK on Patreon. But there are some projects that he previously knew were true on the Marvel side; 'Hawkeye Season 2' and in Season 2, he knew that Clint's brother would be the main villain.
You are not wrong there, we had a guy arrested in public for shouting "not my king", we had a car load of people arrested on the way to a protest because they were going to a peaceful protest, we have stop oil protesters serving 5/10 years prison sentences while we are releasing habitual criminals because the jails are overcrowded, and of course you can go to prision for watching tv without a tv licence, so you are correct that this country is certainly a mess when it comes to laws
He's not been as accurate as the indomitable Andrew in recent months, but he's definitely got a few things right over the years.
And let's face it, the BBC aren't going to sit on their hands with this.
I don't think there would be any harm if they didn't interfere with any platform's budget issue and just made a licensing agreement and broadcasted the BBC series 24 hours after it aired. Of course, if they broadcast it with the 62-year-old 'library'. Otherwise, they would fail like the deal with Disney.
When you existed as long and as with many people in a diverse culture, laws will eventually become a mess.
I think he ended up with some obvious problems caused by external factors (ruby would have made sense as both wish baby, and as Poppy’s mother, for instance — but it seems Millie wanted out after season one) but his solutions were… inelegant to say the least. Aside from which, part of his problem this year has been essentially his own bravado, in a variety of ways. Sometimes, it was about some very clumsy ‘issue’ writing, that more often than not backfires on some level, and sometimes it was because he seemed to have little to no grasp of the history of the character he was writing. Which is flipping astonishing, because I would have assumed that to be impossible.
None of that is confirmed.
Jeremy Renner himself confirmed that they were going to do it, but it did not happen because Jeremy Renner could not agree on the money to be given.
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