WHEN WILL THE BBC CEASE TO EXIST?

Id just like to say a massive thank you to Trilby, for telling me the open championship winner, on a chit chat"when will the bbc cease to exist" fred.Just about to watch the 2 hour open programme before i go on the night shift.  Didnt know the winner, and was really looking forward to it. Just watching the tour de france on itv 4, then the open. Any chance of telling me the bike race winner before the finish .

He's really putt his foot in it

No great love of the BBC but they have been been deliberately undefunded and attacked by the free market ring wing rancid spiv movement that would prefer Fox News and Brietbart on 24/7

Sorry Blackie

It'll prob be one of the doped up guys for the TdF.

Hererrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs Anxious!

ring wing?

undefunded?

Indeed trilby its been dumbed down for years

Have you been watching it? Erm ...

Another ring winger signing in.
anxious calling for a rise in the tv licence, surely not.

I think if anything is underfunded it's the mental health program in anxious's NHS area.

Have they been cutting back on wages anxious?

Poor Huwe Edwards only on 600k a year to read a telepromoter. How does he get by? There should have telethon for underpaid BBC staff. "Millionaires in need".

Sorry, my telephone went "ringwing" there.

It's from China

The wages i agree are too high but its cut down on sports and top drama for years

Its up now against foreign owned multi billion cartels owned by suspicious people

Yup, the BBC totally sucks now-a-days, imo.

How many "foreign correspondents" do they need?

Enough to destroy free sport … except for women's football.

Wimbledon will be next

Have they given Orla Guerin the boot? I used to enjoy her dulcet tones and smiling face.

Sure, the Beeb retain some good uns but Doton Adabayoo (sp?) on Radio 5's 1-5 am shift?  Really?  The guy sounds like he has learning difficulties.  Nothing wrong with that but they shouldn't be broadcasting them

it is not the foreign correspondents you need to worry about

it is the relentless foreign cultural propaganda

it is strange how it is linked to the continual promotion of the eu view which coincides with the support of one culture against the majority

but does this not fit in with merkel(oops!!- eu thinking) on the matter of immigration?  for instance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orla_Guerin

I l do like that Rhod Sharp (sp?) bloke 5 live have on the graveyard shift - and the Aussie "doctor".

Rhod's fra Perth, Scotland - broadcasts from east coast USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhod_Sharp

The Aussie Doc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kruszelnicki

Dr Karl

i used to prefer it when they had Grandstand , play for today and the Magic Roundabout

Frank Bough - still alive

The original Quatermass was fantastic.
Dixon of Dock Green another favourite.

I never knew Quartermass - though I know the name.  What was that about?

"Evening All"

Play for today. Didn't they give us N***** in the woodpile.
Definitely different times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon_of_Dock_Green

No. of episodes
432 (400 missing)

Igger was a good un

Who stole them? Get Dixon on the case!

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I watched from behind the setee Trilby.
Can't remember much apart from being scared lol.
A pit was central to the theme.

Dixon was another 'must see' programme.

Q'mass would have been early 70's?  I was an ex-pat then.

Z Cars , Starsky and Hutch with yogi bear , Ironside

Dixon, I only know the "Evening All" bit.  My Dad would have been into it.

yogi bear?

Who loves ya, Baby?

Ironside was essential!  As was Cannon!

The bbc series was late 50s/early 60s trilby.

Was yogi bear a gymnast or summat?

Before my time, aka

Praps yogi was a guru?

My only real memory is of a smoking pit sealed off and guarded by the army.
That and music that made you feart for what was going to happen next.

Hogy Bear my apologies

I only know these 70's shows from Singapore.

Hawaii five-0
Cannon
Starsky n Hutch
6 million dollar man
bionic woman
there were others …

I like the cut of that gib, aka.  Quatermass?  I'll check it out ...

Hogy?

a smoking pit sealed off and guarded by the army.
That and music that made you feart for what was going to happen next.

SNP political broadcast?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit

Defo an SNP job!

I used to like Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in the Friday night horrors

There used to be some creepy sh!t on late Saturday night, I seem to recall.  BBC2?

Black 'n' white, oc!

Where's Leo?  He's the cat for this discussion.

When you think back the telly used to shut down about midnight , now thers about 500 feckin channels all night and most of em are Sh1te

Thinly veiled "I watch Babestation" fred twist

God Save The Queen was played every night before the crossword girl - or the wee white speck in the middle of the screen going whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, which would sometimes wake me up

That's when the aliens arrived, imo.

noughts and crosses girl with the blackboard!

There used to be something on in the early hours I watched.
Was about Greenpeace tailing Japanese whaling boats.
Whale Wars. haven't seen it for quite a while.
Commercial whaling under the guise of scientific experiments.

That rings a bell actually

The Test Card is a badly missed feature.

The test card, yes, That's it!

The lass looked like one of my cousins … uhoh, getting near JC Babestation thoughts here ...

No doubt Anx will jump in soon with his ring wing hillbilly stuff

God save the queen? Oh the SNP wouldn't allow that now would they trilby. Would have to be the theme tune to Braveheart or The Corries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BBC_test_cards

Never knew there were so many.
Test card F for the wee girl playing noughts and crosses.

The Hillbiles the Clampets that was ITV , Ellie May

Not Chairman May thank feck

That's her!

To go off topic here, since I switched to Windows 10 from 7, I can no longer instantly show pics here without going via the Mods.

What (apart from several loose screws) am I missing?

The Beverly Hillbillies?

Indeed Liquid gold just like city

That's her! - to Aka's card F.

Jul 22, 2018 -- 9:46PM, anxious wrote:

Indeed Liquid gold just like city

Whatchatalk Bruv?  On da ganj?

Me no Lebanese dude

Rawhide, Wagon Train, The Loan ranger and The Cisco Kid all remembered fondly from the 60s.

Resin?

Those shows were from my early childhood. Aka

Bonanza was a BIG family favourite on a Sunday avo.  Wasn't so keen on Little House On The Prairy, tho.  Lol, I had a mate at school in Singapore, Littlehales was his name - Australian.  "Littlehales is a fairy" is a call he will never forget.

Not anymore mate

Rolf is INNOCENT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lofgud4wLLo

windows 10 is the devil's spawn

you are being watched

Eye no!

It's remarkable that nearly all the popular shows are American.
While we've pumped billions into the BBC that seems to produce dross in comparison, with only the odd programme or two of note.

Which is to be expected from a company that isn't answerable to its audience for support.
And a shocking state of affairs where the customer doesn't matter.

The beeb has cancelled the Daily Politics and This week and is replacing them with new shows apparently more targetted to a "younger audience". Give me strength.
Tommorow is the last show.

These two shows are two of the only shows worth watching on the BBC as they aren't dumbed down left wing crap.

Can we look forward to someone reading out twitter and instagram messages (to get down with the social media kidz) and then an ethnically diverse hipster group "rapping" about austerity and how great the EU and Corbyn are, then a Frankie Boyle socialist "comedy" slot? ...

Dont forget it 7pm its Channel Four News and its your favourite Johnny Snow

As soon as they got rid of Ceefax it all went down hill.

It's remarkable that nearly all the popular shows are American.
While we've pumped billions into the BBC that seems to produce dross in comparison, with only the odd programme or two of note.

A show being popular doesn't mean it's not dross... Mrs Brown's Boys is popular.
We also get to cherry pick the "best" American shows. How many billions do US channels pump into tv programming? Is there a complete absence of dross?

"WHEN WILL THE BBC CEASE TO EXIST"
Phuckin can't be soon enough !

I have read some crazy stories on the bbc but this one.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/0fdc0e48-a430-485d-8a01-756ce37edd13

Never happen. Archers listeners are very militant

BBC's Who do you think you are seem terribly upset that a terrorist vaguely related to Boy George caught in the act red handed with weapons, as part of a gang trying to KILL policeman, was then executed for it. Seems a bit "can dish it out but can't take it" imho.

Give it a couple decades, they'll be getting guys on to fulfill their diversity quota all sad about how IS ----s were treated...

The "barbie feet" thing isn't new, for years now whenever those z list celebs get caught by fake paparazi accidentally in full make up tarting in poses round a swimming pool "on holiday", they seem to be doing the "stand on the balls of their feet" thing...

Who do you think we are, 2038:
"And then my uncle, who was merely attacking passers by with a knife, was shot down!"
*sad music*
"He had a belt on and didn't even get the chance to activate it, or drive his van into anyone"
*more sad music*
"The British were terrible people back then."

JC  the I Ronnie of it is they ARE british!!!  My mate says they aren't!!! If you get my drift.

Akabula - your "Loan Ranger" made me giggle.  Is that the name of the current remake?

The BBC has agreed to pay Sir Cliff Richard £850,000 towards his legal costs within 14 days, following his privacy case against the corporation.

A judge ruled the BBC infringed the singer's privacy in its reporting of a police raid on his home in 2014, awarding him £210,000 in damages.

Sir Cliff was never arrested or charged as part of the investigation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44963548

'The singer's privacy'??? These lawyers must be bloody fantastic to a) run up a £850k bill and b) get their client 210 bags on such a flimsy charge.

I've no time for the BBC but if Plod tipped them off about someone as famous as Cliff facing an investigation, shouldn't they go in? I find it all a bit odd.

Here is one of the bbc values....

Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent, impartial and honest.

If they showed things like Starsky and Hutch, Beverley Hillbillies etc now, people would be up in arms. They were good in their day because people had nothing to compare with. The BBC continues to lead the way on all channels. Main gripe on here seems to be the BBC news. Watch Fox News if you must but I'll happy to trust the BBC. a lot of you are living in the past. Just watched a great prog on BBC 2 - The big Life Fix. Earlier The Hairy Bikers in the Med - great watch.

the licence should be finished lets all start a crowd fund scheme NOT TO PAY