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Old Mar 5th 2017, 3:20 pm
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Yes...another example of ITV pulling its socks up having to meet BBC standard
did you have 'waffles' for breakfast?
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Yes...another example of ITV pulling its socks up having to meet BBC standard
Errrr Coronation Street Granada/ITV 1960
Eastenders BBC 1985

BBC lagging behind
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Old Mar 5th 2017, 3:34 pm
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Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian
Errrr Coronation Street Granada/ITV 1960
Eastenders BBC 1985

BBC lagging behind
Bristol is the winner on this

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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Old Mar 5th 2017, 3:38 pm
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Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian
Errrr Coronation Street Granada/ITV 1960
Eastenders BBC 1985

BBC lagging behind
You might have a point if A) soaps didn't start on BBC until 1985 - The Newcomers ring any bells? The Archers on the radio from 1951 - and 2) there were other examples of ITV getting successful programming in first.

Of course, to counter Corrie, there was that other C on ITV....Crossroads
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
You might have a point if A) soaps didn't start on BBC until 1985 - T
much earlier than that.

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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Originally Posted by not2old
did you have 'waffles' for breakfast?

No, today was a Brie/crispbread sandwich with coffee.
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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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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.
Keep up man...that was 10 posts ago
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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
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Originally Posted by not2old
BBC should be canned as should the ~35,000 people that work for it, or make the BBC a slimmed down version of one TV news channel + one radio station.
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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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.
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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Me neither. Apart from it's recent dismal Christmas schedules, the BBC is ray of rationality in this otherwise madding world.
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.
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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.
I watched a bit of one with HID and the presenter sounded like Chewbacca if he'd had a stroke.
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Originally Posted by christmasoompa
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.
I do wonder about the Beeb and the wildlife programs. Ever since I can remember, there has been a 'groundbreaking' new wildlife / Planet Earth / Blue Planet series coming out annually. It's great for folks such as your brother, but surely the archive has hundreds if not thousands of reels or a leopard doing this or a polar bear doing that.

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!
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...it does seem to be a bizarre fixation from Auntie...
I suppose when you make something so good that 130 countries buy it.....
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