by Owzat » Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:35 pm
BBC3 is badly used, BBC4 is worse. You could combine the two sets of programmes at no great loss, ad nauseam repeats of the programme the BBC has sex with (Doctor Who) and other lesser shows could be reduced in repetition and merged. I rarely watch BBC4, the only programme on there worth mentioning is Only Connect (Monday 8.30pm, repeated THURSDAY 7.30pm)
With all these cuts I can tell we'll be getting a TV licence fee reduction - NOT! All these new channels was great in theory, but it was rapidly obvious they were just showing the same programmes over and over without having the budget to fund FOUR channels with new and/or diverse material.
I propose they merge BBC3 and BBC4, keep most of the same (types of) programmes, but repeat less (often). Use BBC4 as a new "Classic BBC" channel and show old BBC Sci-Fi (Blakes 7, old Doctor Who etc), comedies (One Foot In The Grave, Only Fools And Horses etc), quiz shows etc which shouldn't cost them anything - unless, as I suspect, they sold them or the rights to broadcast to s*y which would explain why a lot of stuff isn't (repeated) on BBC. They quite probably sold off the classic stuff, suddenly found out the hard way it is more sought after than they 'thought' and they're now screwed because they'd have to pay a lot to show it themselves and have to pay as much if not more to fill their own schedule.
If you walk into a shop and buy something it comes with a guarantee, quality assurance (if you're not completely satisfied kind of thing) and you get to choose. We have to pay for cruddy programmes, repeated and seems more and more aimed at the female of the species and you struggle to find six hour's worth of worthwhile TV across 20+ channels in one day. It's the same films over and over, again I suspect they struggle to compete with s*y for rights to show, and sport has become a joke. The only thing gets much coverage bar Rugby Union is tennis, olympics and non-sports like snoozeker and drats - the latter two non-sports broadcast for long spells and destroying any hopes of decent scheduling on the afflicted channels.
Never buy from PC World, product quality is poor and their 'customer service' is even poorer
