TV licences are Brits behind the times?
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What I recall from my childhood up till coming to Canada
The Quatermass Experiment (1953)
The sky at night (1957)
Blue Peter
Andy Pandy
The wooden tops
Dixon of dock green
Steptoe and son
Hancock's half hour
Till death us do part
Top of the Pops
Dr Who (the original black & white) with William Hartnell
Match of the Day
Grandstand
Open University
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Of course, to counter Corrie, there was that other C on ITV....Crossroads
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TV Soap
BBC television's first foray into soap opera was a children's programme 'The Appleyards', which went out once every two weeks from 1952 to 1957.
'The Grove Family', which ran from 1954 to 1957, was the first television soap for adult.
'Compact' was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC from 1962 to 1965
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Let's not forget that whether you have a T.V. or not in Canada, taxpayers there, the last time I checked, subsidize the CBC to the tune of $1.2 billion.
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I think I read that CBC asked for an additional $400 million in funding to go commercial free late last year, citing BBC as a successful model.
I honestly wouldn't mind a TV licence here tbh, especially if the quality of TV was raised to BBC level
I honestly wouldn't mind a TV licence here tbh, especially if the quality of TV was raised to BBC level
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Seeing as my brother is a producer for the BBC (their wildlife documentaries - which I personally think are bloody amazing tv viewing and worth the licence fee on their own, but no doubt you'll disagree) I'd have to say I'm not keen on that idea.
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Me neither. Apart from it's recent dismal Christmas schedules, the BBC is ray of rationality in this otherwise madding world.
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Yet I can't name one meaningful programme it produces?
I tried watching some investigative journalism on there and it was absolutely diabolical.
The BBC produces a lot of high quality stuff including MOTD, Panorama and it's news service to name a few.
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CBC receives around $30 per head of the Canadian population per annum from the government.
Yet I can't name one meaningful programme it produces?
I tried watching some investigative journalism on there and it was absolutely diabolical.
The BBC produces a lot of high quality stuff including MOTD, Panorama and it's news service to name a few.
Yet I can't name one meaningful programme it produces?
I tried watching some investigative journalism on there and it was absolutely diabolical.
The BBC produces a lot of high quality stuff including MOTD, Panorama and it's news service to name a few.
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I appreciate that higher quality photography and things like drones are enabling better perspectives, but really, it does seem to be a bizarre fixation from Auntie.
The one exception I would make is the recent series where they showed some lions hunting a giraffe. There was a chase sequence where the giraffe not only got away, but gave the lead lioness a couple of decent blows!! We jumping out of our seats to cheer the giraffe on that one!