‘Radically Reshaped’ BBC to Include Fewer Jobs and More Reruns

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Originally Posted by August

Except for "Outnumbered" (which I don't like but the wife loves) we don't see any of that when they broadcast BBC stuff on PBS.

They don't broadcast any of that on the BBC here either. They franchised the rights to GOLD and DAVE for lots of money. To be honest I've seen then all so often I couldn't watched any of them any more even if I was forced to at gunpoint. Plenty of decent - and new - comedy coming through the BBC.

To be honest, some of the stuff outwith the usual prime time guff has been fantastic on the BBC over the last couple of years. It'll be a shame if the same drama unit that has recently given us State of Play, The Shadow Line, Sherlock and Page 8 is going to be badly affected.

BBC Alba is pretty much ring fenced as - just like STV - the beeb get a grant for indigenous language stuff be it Welsh or one of the Gaelic languages. Now, they can get rid of BBC 3. Any channel that gave Two Pints of Lager to the world deserves to be axed.

Whole thing smacks of punishing everyone to prove a point. Never mind, sooner or later Murdoch will slither back into the Tory good books and they'll close it down for him as a 'welcome back!' present.