BBC4 effectively shut down

How much original programming does BBC 4 actually produce anyway? Last thing I recall watching that was original was Brain Pern and before that it was Screenwipe. The vast majority of the channel's content is Scandi crime imports, Bob Ross and repeats of old music programs, history documentaries and Attenborough.
Wouldn't mind if it intends on just showing repeats from the BBC archives, there's plenty the BBC have to show. Have it go 24 hours too.
 
MFP said:
How much original programming does BBC 4 actually produce anyway? Last thing I recall watching that was original was Brain Pern and before that it was Screenwipe. The vast majority of the channel's content is Scandi crime imports, Bob Ross and repeats of old music programs, history documentaries and Attenborough.
Wouldn't mind if it intends on just showing repeats from the BBC archives, there's plenty the BBC have to show. Have it go 24 hours too.
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From wiki
The Art of Cornwall
The Ballad of Mott the Hoople
BBC Four News
BBC Four Sessions
Birds Britania
Britain by Bike
Britain's Best Drives
Can Eating Insects Save the World
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
Children's TV Trials
Churches: How To Read Them
The Curse of Steptoe
Detectorists
Dinosaurs, Myths and Monsters
Dirk Gently
Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency
The First World War
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Free Will and Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story
Goodbye BBC Television Centre
The Great War
Hattie
H. G. Wells: War with the World
Hinterland/Y Gwyll (Joint BBC / S4C production, English-language version)
Hive Minds
How to Build a Dinosaur
If Walls Could Talk
Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City
Music for Misfits: The Story of Indie
Only Connect
Racing at the BBC
Sandhurst
The Secret Life of Ice
Shock and Awe: The Life of Electricity
Singer-Songwriters at the BBC
Sings the...
The Life of Rock with Brian Pern
The Story of Musicals
The Story of the National Grid
Survivors: Nature's Indestructible Creatures
Talking Children
Timeshift
Twenty Twelve
To Kill a Mockingbird at 50
Walter's War
World News Today (simulcast on BBC Four and BBC World News, previously World News Today with Zeinab Badawi)
Beyond 100 Days (simulcast on BBC Four, BBC News and BBC World News; Previously 100 Days (January – April 2017), 100 Days + (May – July 2017)
A Very British History
 
bear66 said:
The BBC owns it so the 'profits' subsidise the licence fee income. No 'one' reaps the profits
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The profits are very real and not imaginary as your quotes imply. Hundreds of millions. Out of that money paid to the people involved , unlike the BBC which have to disclose salaries due to FOI the BBC Worldwide have no duty to disclose what is paid. Which makes the likes of Graheme Norton a very very rich man. So yes there are many people making large profits from BBC Worldwide.

What makes that very wrong is the development costs are paid for by the licence payers.

Support the over 75s in their unwillingness to pay.
 
Glover_elbow said:
BBC 3 is responsible for bringing that God awful Stacey dooley to our screens. Plus other youth oriented ***** like the rap game. Utter garbage
I have to say I find there often interesting things to watch on sky arts a great addition to freeview
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What is it about that Dooley that makes me cringe so much the minute she opens her gob ? She seems like a 12 year old trapped in a womans body. Truly buttock clenching nausea
 
I would go as far as suggesting the BBC should bin off MOTD. Over £80m per year for those PL highlight rights.
 
Wilf said:
you have an explanation ? - lets hear it.
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you know very well. There's been many lines written here and elsewhere about GL and the other 2. But I'll humour you with GL.
A man who sticks 2 fingers up to the BBC code of conduct by twittering his personal politics because he does not technically work for the BBC. Its via his own service company.
Only a matter of time before he truly self destructs.
A hypocrite of the highest order, the junk food pedalling idiot who seems to have forgotten he played for England but then again he was probably just playing for himself. Not the definition of a team player was he?

Thanks for the opportunity Wilf
 
I should hope the over 75s are paying for a licence. They've certainly got shitloads more money than 18 year olds. Honestly the squealing when you try and get the tight gets to pay for anything. :rolleyes:
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
I should hope the over 75s are paying for a licence. They've certainly got shitloads more money than 18 year olds. Honestly the squealing when you try and get the tight gets to pay for anything. :rolleyes:
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There are some rich over 75s for sure and a lot of borderline living in poverty,
Equally there are very few 18 year olds that own a property where they have to pay the licence.
 
Glover_elbow said:
BBC 3 is responsible for bringing that God awful Stacey dooley to our screens. Plus other youth oriented ***** like the rap game. Utter garbage
I have to say I find there often interesting things to watch on sky arts a great addition to freeview
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I wouldn’t expect 50 plus grumpy men to dislike Dooley. She’s not exactly my cup of team either. Sadly it doesn’t matter what you think really because she is hugely popular amongst younger viewers and the programme that launched her to the world Blood Sweat and TShirts was sold cross the world and made the BEEB a lot of money.
 
What annoys me about GL and MOTD is the money spent on a programme that is not shown till late at night,brilliant debate bytheway
 
the_dormouse said:
What annoys me about GL and MOTD is the money spent on a programme that is not shown till late at night,brilliant debate bytheway
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When ITV had the highlights rights they scheduled The Premiership prog at 19:00 on Saturday evening. It lasted 10 weeks as it got poor viewing figures and was shifted to 10.30pm. A later slot gives much more time for editing and selection of material.
 
HundredRoom said:
The profits are very real and not imaginary as your quotes imply. Hundreds of millions. Out of that money paid to the people involved , unlike the BBC which have to disclose salaries due to FOI the BBC Worldwide have no duty to disclose what is paid. Which makes the likes of Graheme Norton a very very rich man. So yes there are many people making large profits from BBC Worldwide.

What makes that very wrong is the development costs are paid for by the licence payers.

Support the over 75s in their unwillingness to pay.
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And the money subsdises the licence fee. I'd be really annoyed if thy didn't do this.
 
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