I find BBC drama is consistently of a high quality - and unlike the paid services i can watch 6 episodes and its pretty much ended. Everything on netflix/prime is like 10 seasons of 20 episodes
Sad times - but im sure Rupert Murdoch will be happy
I just want to say that the BBC has had partisan claims by people from all the aisles. The BBC tends to be more left leaning and progressive with a lot of its coverage, I'm assuming that's mostly because journalists tend to be, however there have been certain "coincidences" when it comes to Conservative coverage.
I don't know whether or not they're partisan, but I feel when both left and right leaning people call the BBC partisan, it feels like they're less likely to be partisan.
* Old people who don't work
* People with little education, who aren't skilled enough to work as a journalist
https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2019/12/how-britain-voted-and-...
You (or whoever is downvoting) might not like that, but the fact is that in the UK context the country is left leaning, but elects the tories because of the split in the left
As for the BBC it's firmly establishment leaning rather than left leaning in my view, and they also carry a lot of the blame for promoting Farage's poltics e.g. more appearances on question time than anyone else
"Left leaning" is of course relative. Some claim that Tony Blair is right wing, and Corbyn is the "middle ground". If you claim that then sure Britian is overall right-of-corbyn.
But if you take the standard "Lab/Lib/SNP/Green" is left leaning, and "Tory/UKIP/BNP" is right leaning, then as the left have have a majority every election it's quite reasonable to believe what the facts say.
Take one look at the election results and you can see there is a constant majority that's "left"
A lot of the complaints stems from a perceived view that UKIP were overrepresented on Question Time in the run up to 2015. That's no defence for the claim the BBC is "pro establishment", as Farage and indeed Brexit was quite clearly anti establishment.
Yes, he might not be old money but he's as establishment as they come - look at his clothes he even wears the uniform of the establishment
One of his greatest tricks is that we was able to convince so many people that he was a normal person just like them
As much as I hate everything that is Farage & co, I think that is rather a symptom of the BBC being less biased than other outlets. If you want to claim to be unbiased, you have to give both sides of any argument a voice in a place like the UK, regardless of how terrible or great one side is.
Is that pro-government or anti-government in your view?
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/media/articles-reports/2020/04/2...
Although it's only about half
Like the people who supported Corbyn, or Scottish independence? You're characterizing people who were a few points from winning as extremists.
Worth noting also, the prevelance of BBC ads for its own content which have become something of an irritant over the past few years.
The nostalgic viewing makes it easy to watch
The BBC were airing matches in 4K HDR and their service ran without a hitch.
ITV, on the other hand, a private company, had a site which crumbled under load. When it did eventually work, it was so poor as to be laughable. It probably wouldn’t even be considered HD and the frame rate couldn’t keep up.
It became a running joke on social media.
As much as I dislike the license fee, I do appreciate the services and content it funds. Non-partisan, non-commercial news is particularly valuable. I’m glad our TV news hasn’t descended into US style garbage yet.
The difference between DTT and Satelite is just about OK, but not online.
Unfortunately, some of us have no choice - no working aerial on this block (and a satellite dish wouldn't help.) It's online or nothing.