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BBC edits out pride pins on University Challenge in ‘Orwellian’ move
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"what has the BBC ever done for me"
It's part of their campaign to try and beg people not to abandon the licence fee.
So, what has the BBC done for me?
Erased my culture. There.
I hate those ads with a burning passion! What has the BBC ever done?
Provided transphobes with a platform. Downplayed Israel's genocide. Provided Jimmy Savile with victims. I could go on...
The same bbc that once aired Monty python.
SMH
I swear the BBC used to have the best comedies in the world. Monty Python, Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers, BlackAdder, Red Dwarf, I could go on and on and on.
I feel like they haven't really done anything drastically funny since The Mighty Boosh, which was over 20 years ago now. Inside Number 9 was alright, but gave up its comedic undertone after the first series or so. Red Dwarf has moved to Dave, The Goes Wrong Show was good too, but that was an adapted stage show. Technically The Mighty Boosh started as a stage show too, have the BBC not done any good original adult comedies since the 90s?
I know this is a facetious tangent given everything else the BBC do, but I'm honestly surprised how little anyone seems to notice or care that arguably the biggest entertainment network in the world can't even entertain its audience any more
The Thick of It? I would say the office but that's 25ish at this point.
There is still some masterful comedy, like Taskmaster and various panel shows.
However the embraceing of the modern, counter culture and edgy things has gone down the drain as directors have boomerified and have things to lose.
You seem to have thought "ah, British thing, means it's BBC".
Well I go appreciate panel does like this was the news, qi and would I lie to you. Comedy is not entirely dead in the beeb.
But I wasn't aware that channel 4 wasn't part of the main media mogul, so I stand corrected.
Taskmaster is Channel 4, and started life on Dave. BBC has nothing to do with it.
Ah, in that case I stand corrected. I thought all that was part of the been.