What to do with the BBC

by cosmictanya Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:07 pm

A current topic everyone has an opinion on. Following on from my EastEnders advice...

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cosmictanya I've been finding EastEnders less appealing and more difficult to follow since it was cut to two a week to eke out existing episodes.

I do think a Monday and Tuesday transmission was a mistake.

Had it been up to me, I'd have made a big song and dance about it being 'returned' permanently to a classic Tuesday and Thursday transmission, and fought the BBC for a 9pm broadcast slot so more realistic language and more rounded plots could be shown when filming resumed. This would also allow the new Peter and the old Kush to have sex scenes.

The hiatus would also provide an opportunity to decide which characters could die from Coronavirus, and find some new writers.

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What else might be done? Realistic suggestions only. I think Fiona Bruce needs to be self isolated on the Antiques Roadshow which she's quite competent at, and Question Time given to Kirsty Wark. Emily Maitlis to be on an extended Newsnight moved to BBC1 - an hour each week night. Newsnight cultural review also by Maitlis at 9.30pm, after EastEnders, pre news, giving her half an hour to freshen up for the big dissection.

The news itself, returned the dramatic blue studio and opening titles of the mid 90's. Breakfast etc returned from Manchester due to the ample evidence that decentralization doesn't work well in broadcasting or enhance quality. In case I'm accused of knocking the north, I think The Guardian should move back up that way.

The daytime stuff needs pulled off air permanently. Trash in the Attic, Homes Under The Hammer, all that nonsense gone. For the time being an hour of a vintage classic production would work mid morning, following on from the magazine show. Then I'd want a half hour rundown of economic news, shares etc, live from the City and with NYC just opening.

Then the lunchtime news. Followed by an in depth hour of investigation on something fascinating from the international teams on the ground in almost every country. Then perhaps a film, a live screening of a matinee from the West End, etc. Before some smartly packaged imports like some brightly illustrated Japanese cartoons leads us to the news at 6, and an evening as already outlined after Mastermind, ONE cookery programme, a comedy, a new travel show, the twice weekly soap etc.

BBC4 merged into 2. With what it was meant to be - higher brow, more experimental, far less commercial, public lectures in the morning on all kinds of subject matter from the world of academia, art, science, politics and diplomacy, married with entertainment in mind and a commitment to quality journalism, and probably (pre-screened) home audience interaction features/questions as a nod to the fact that for those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

Last year there was a fun make up contest broadcast on BBC4 at around midnight. Very creative, colourful, young, cheapish to make but slick production values - reality television involving nobody mentally ill being humiliated before a baying mob for thinking they sound like Whitney Houston.

I do think The Clothes Show could viably return. Democratic music features from the streets of our own and international cities, new artists, people not generally on television apart from Panorama features on how terrible their estates are. Etc.

What does everyone else here think should be done with our under attack national broadcaster, caught trying to please everyone and largely pleasing nobody?

by Nightjar Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:08 pm

Keep it light, CT.

Please.

by cosmictanya Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:11 pm

That is light. How is it dark? It's not political, it's creative. And everyone has opinions on how it could be modified.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:17 pm

;tldr?

by cosmictanya Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:19 pm

I don't know what that means.

by Guest Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:19 pm

Too Long; Didn't Read. lol.

by Fangirl Three Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:22 pm

Laura Kuenssberg (sp) to be fired into the heart of the sun before any other negotiations take place.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:23 pm

by cosmictanya Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:23 pm

Oh. Well, that's up to the reader. Rather rude but nevermind. It's never been mandatory to read anything, although I believe part of the 16th century Reformation was to try to enforce mass reading in native language translations.

by Guest Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:25 pm

Nightjar wrote:No, tldr?

Emphais on ?.

Don't get involved please.

You obviously have no idea how much you've upset me this last week.

Stop trying to deconstruct me!

stop it

by Nightjar Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:27 pm

by Nightjar Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:29 pm

cosmictanya wrote:Oh. Well, that's up to the reader. Rather rude but nevermind. It's never been mandatory to read anything, although I believe part of the 16th century Reformation was to try to enforce mass reading in native language translations.

Groan.

95% of that post wasn't directed at you.

by cosmictanya Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:30 pm

Yes, I've gone off Laura. I've often defended her on the grounds that impartiality is inhuman and therefore shouldn't be a charter obligation as such.

Nightjar I didn't know what initials meant. If that is to me, and something I've said or done has upset you, you can always bring it to me. I can't read minds and I rarely use txt spk, so really it wasn't to offend.

by cosmictanya Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:34 pm

I'm very confused about what's happened here. Who has their PM disabled and what does this have to do with the BBC? I know you had a significant event on the 23rd. I didn't ask because you didn't say. I presumed you'd share if you wanted to.

by cosmictanya Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:42 pm

I regret starting this thread now. I thought it might make for an interesting discussion. Perhaps it should be deleted before it becomes something not intended.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:52 pm

by cosmictanya Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:09 pm

Maybe we are all just feeling tense with the worry of our own health, and the health of loved ones, the economic and livelihood worry, the worry of the cost to the education and socialization of the kids in our lives, the strange silence, the inability to just go out.

Great grief is hard enough at the best of times. We should all be more kind to each other, and less kind about those who write and willingly facilitate such sustained and deep hatred, and who gleefully twist off the cuff remarks and casual confidences into grotesque and vulgar caricatures to be more easily abused, derided, sanctioned, othered.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:15 pm

I'm not worried about my own health.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:37 pm

by cosmictanya Fri Apr 03, 2020 11:14 pm

In that case, those posts that discuss you in that capacity should of course be deleted or the specific sentences snipped out.

However, those mentioning me I would like to remain - as far as I'm concerned, that kind of chatter has been hidden for far too long. In the absence of ability to look the offenders straight in the eye and ask for a direct repetition and a real explanation, that suffices for me.

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