Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England
by pjc50 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:52AM
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> "Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole"
This is the kind of TV program that I think has contributed to the UK's extreme stinginess and bureaucracy of benefits; in aggregate it's probably got people killed. Cherry-picking the most lurid stories to make people look bad.
It's also not a BBC show, it's by Channel 5!
I'm with a lot of people that the BBC can produce great stuff, but only when it remembers to be Reithian and the managers aren't looking. These days most of the BBC content I watch comes from BBC4, plus the output of David Attenborough.
(ORF produce exactly one show with an international reputation: the New Year's Day concert from Vienna, which is lovely)
This is the kind of TV program that I think has contributed to the UK's extreme stinginess and bureaucracy of benefits; in aggregate it's probably got people killed. Cherry-picking the most lurid stories to make people look bad.
It's also not a BBC show, it's by Channel 5!
I'm with a lot of people that the BBC can produce great stuff, but only when it remembers to be Reithian and the managers aren't looking. These days most of the BBC content I watch comes from BBC4, plus the output of David Attenborough.
(ORF produce exactly one show with an international reputation: the New Year's Day concert from Vienna, which is lovely)