17-02-2023, 10:31 PM
I used to love all the ‘Watches’ and WFH a lot long before WFH acronym was commonplace would often watch the red button daytime programmes from the production trailer – in fact I rather liked these as they were informative but not slick – a bit OU. At night after the main shows I would watch the Unsprung programme on the red button and the live nest cameras, etc. The daytime broadcasts and Unsprung disappeared and then one year the live cameras were nudged out of the way for repeats of some pop festival.
On top of that the main shows seemed to get Top Gear-ed with more entertainment features – staged competitions between a goshawk and some other bird of prey, etc. – plus the usual worked up dramas along with the inevitable lecturing and virtue signalling that has become a feature of much BBC material.
I am not a great consumer of TV and the Watches provided a good reason for having a licence but I haven’t bothered with the last few seasons’ programmes.
I’m afraid that the BBC seem on a determined path to remove most things that I enjoy. Radios 2, 3 & 4 were for years my day-long companions. I am down to Radio 3 which I don’t use as much as I used to and it will be interesting what happens to its output under the new controller.
On top of that the main shows seemed to get Top Gear-ed with more entertainment features – staged competitions between a goshawk and some other bird of prey, etc. – plus the usual worked up dramas along with the inevitable lecturing and virtue signalling that has become a feature of much BBC material.
I am not a great consumer of TV and the Watches provided a good reason for having a licence but I haven’t bothered with the last few seasons’ programmes.
I’m afraid that the BBC seem on a determined path to remove most things that I enjoy. Radios 2, 3 & 4 were for years my day-long companions. I am down to Radio 3 which I don’t use as much as I used to and it will be interesting what happens to its output under the new controller.
Nick
