by Shaun Wing

Created on: April 20, 2010   Last Updated: April 21, 2010

BBC

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What with Jonathan Ross leaving the BBC and ending his lucrative deal, due to deep cost cuttings that would at least halve his annual salary, it was inevitable that next to go was lacklustre programmes that roll-on a loop, spurting out ground hog day tap drippings on a hourly basis, just in case you missed it the first time, not that the public was bothered anyway, which the licensee was paying for out of their annual fee. The analogy reminds me of a ‘Hungry Horse ‘meal out. You ask for a roast beef dish, eat quarter of it because it was the edible part and don’t even consider the rest due to its dried-up gristly unappetising attire; garnished with a three coloured toned hair follicle. Naturally, you pay through the nose for it because it was out of ‘Happy Hour;’ and after wafting a newspaper voucher at the waitress at the till with size 1 font explaining you’re a fool to believe the ‘big text’ at the front offering you a ‘meal offer’ in its terms and conditions. So the UK public now expect to pay more for a service that is diminishing in size. Why should we expect anything different from our ‘British Broadcasting Corporation?’ We aren’t allowed to get too excited, if we did so, more strokes will decapitate us and that won’t be at all productive for the UK economy.

I stuck my neck out fourteen months ago, claiming that there maybe some cost cutting in regards to the TV licence fee leading up to the 2012 Olympics, this was partly because of the online demand. I totally misjudged the silver chinned smug fat cats that steer this BBC ship. In reality you’re getting less for your money, and the Beeb still packages the deal up to customers with a tidy glossy bow stating it is great value for money. Personally, I prefer a ‘pay per view’ system that Sky does for the add-on programmes that is part of the tidy glossy bowed present Mr. Thompson, the ‘Director-General’, has giveth to us, the faithful doe-eyed public.

Now that it is about revenue with showing these channels the BBC and not because no-one wanted to see the infuriating repeated loop that endangered your sanity, perhaps the question is, why did the BBC actually think that showing inept daily programme criteria that looped round like wooden galloping horses at a playground was entertaining? – Well ladies and gentleman the answer to that question lies with the over expansion

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