Capitalists can obviously go up stairs.
Top Gear, Doctor Who and Strictly Come Dancing face being privatised under ‘competition revolution’ at the BBC
Top BBC shows like Doctor Who, Top Gear and Strictly Come Dancing face being privatised under new cost-cutting plans at the corporation.
Hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of TV programmes currently produced by the BBC will no longer be protected from outside competition under reforms announced by director general Tony Hall today.
In return, Lord Hall wants the BBC’s in-house production company to be free to make shows directly for other broadcasters, particularly in America, in a bid to generate millions of pounds.
Here is a taste of things to come with an early tender for the Dr Who franchise:
And there was I thinking only the government can decide on the way the BBC is funded.
On a par with the Colin Baker era and distinctly better than Sylvester Mc Coy’s
The McCoy era had an episode where during WW2 the British were the bad guys and the Russian socialists the goodies – only on the BBC! Although I do admit to enjoying the episode nonetheless and along with Resurrection of the Daleks is the only decent one of the series
(takes geek hat off)
Wow BBC vow to make more money on top of the cash they rake in selling everything we pay them to make anyway! leftys gotta love their greed !
A Leftist concept of generosity is taking away money from others and giving it themselves. They call this redistribution “social justice”. As that bloke who used to edit the Today programme said the other week, the “social conscience” of the middle class Left is almost entirely bogus. Their solution to every problem is higher taxes and a bigger State – and no prizes for guessing who they want to run the State.
What exactly does ‘privatise’ mean in this instance?
In the real world it would mean the sale of the copyright to the shows and the BBC then buying the episodes in a free market competition.
But then this is the BBC we’re talking about and privatisation and competition aren’t in their vocabulary.
What they’re intending to do is farm the production of these episodes out to their crony companies, which is pretty much what they do anyway.
Companies like hat trick productions, or Celador already produce programs for the BBC and their are plenty more of them making programs which they sell to the BBC.
This is just business as usual, and a chance for BBC types to make a lot more money.
So I will still have to cough up £145 while they use that money to make and sell programmes to someone else. Nice…
…And while I’m at it. Why not make the BBC Pat-To-View. Then may be they might downsize, get rid of pointless channels and the rubbish that they generate (including BeeBoid jobs). Concentrate on a couple of channels and produce quality programmes that people want to watch. Including delivering impartial quality news. But whatever the BBC says it just doesn’t want to lose money and its bloated generally lazy staff. We’ve all had to downsize… public services, Defence, private sector. What makes the Beeb special?
Pat-To-View
Isn’t that an RTE service?
IGMC
I know… T too near the Y.
Actually I wish I was Irish. Eire get the dubious benefits of Beeb and pay nothing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/radio/pitching-ideas/how-to-pitch.shtml
BBC Radio Independent Production Company Database
(for BBC Network Radio stations)
As a member of the list you will hear about commissioning rounds, information concerning Radio Independent production companies and you’ll be able to pitch to the BBC radio networks.
To join the database, please complete the Pro-Forma (in the downloads section on the top right of this page) and email it to RadioCommissioningEnquiries@bbc.co.uk (contact: 020776 51865).
To join the database, you will need to agree to the Technical Delivery Requirements, the Health and Safety Requirements and the BBC Terms of Trade.
This database replaces any list of independent prouction companies previously held by the separate networks.
Unfortunately, we are unable to list the names and contacts of companies on the website who are members of the Independent Production Company database as the list is constantly changing and being updated.
Here’s what happened when someone made an FOI request for the list of production companies currently supplying the BBC.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/list_of_production_companies?unfold=1
Vast improvement on the last series of DR Who, at least it’s not trying to make some right on political point.