brownmane
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Our CBC is taxpayer funded, along with commercial money in form of ads. Of course depending who's in federal gov't, determines the funding
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What's Up At The BBC?
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..., but if I want access to earlier seasons, I have to sign up for a "free" account. ..
Hey, that reminds me. I was trying to get the earlier series of Cold Feet, but the system wouldn't let me. Maybe now it will. Thanks for the hint.
Hey, that reminds me. I was trying to get the earlier series of Cold Feet, but the system wouldn't let me. Maybe now it will. Thanks for the hint.
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Yep. Annoying as a license number ought to have been all the asked for. I don't watch the iPlayer I CBA when I've got Netflix and YouTube on the telly anyway.
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Seeing as I'm neither female, gay or black which seemingly makes me a sexist homophobic racist apparently in the eyes of the BBC (going by 95% of their output), I rarely find anything I want to watch from the BBC anymore. I make my own TV schedule online instead.
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Even when you are logged in it asks you if you have a license, well at least on the app it does. Like you’re going to say no even if you don’t.
CarlosTheDJ
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It already does.
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But Canada doesn’t have a Claudia Winkleman to support.
brownmane
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Sorry, I don't get the reference
brownmane
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Ok I googled her. Five minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Curiosity merely reduces the useful proportion of lifespan in humans. I've heard it's lethal for cats ...Ok I googled her. Five minutes of my life I'll never get back.
brownmane
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Curiosity killed the cat; satisfaction brought her back.
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Even this won’t prepare you for the creative vacuum and talent vampire that is Mel Giedroyc. Such is her power of draining the talent around her, everything she touches turns to shit while she just rolls her eyes and giggles.Ok I googled her. Five minutes of my life I'll never get back.
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Aww, so harsh. She's alright. She's just not funny.
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Well she’s doing Eurovision on BBC2 now so put your money on any other country. And it’s not harsh. She is really rubbish.
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I don't hold a license as I don't have a TV and don't watch anything live on iplayer.
They tried to get me with the sign up thing after a link got posted on the Facebook Fortean group to a paranormal themed radio programme, afaik legal to listen to but i'm not going to risk it just in case... also it's too fucking snoopy for my taste.
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Jesus, that talent alone is enough for the Beeb to give her a new detective show,
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But she only has one job and that's to be funny. She's being paid to be funny and she isn't. I've got nothing against her either.
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She mostly works for the BBC. No requirement to be funny.
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But we're paying for a licence fee .. so we're paying her ..
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I just regard anything she’s in as a hallmark of crap and watch something else instead.
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I'm just glad I don't pay for the TV licence in our house.
Public Enemy were 100% correct over 30 years ago and nothings changed, if anything it's got worse .. I'd change the "radiation" part to "emotional constipation"
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BBC to bring back Crackerjack after 35 years Bid to get children to watch more TV also includes revival of The Demon Headmaster
Frances Perraudin
Mon 11 Feb 2019 11.53 EST
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This seems like pretty desperate stuff. And now we want to encourage children to watch television? I think for the whole of my childhood I heard that adults wanted children to watch less television!
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mikfez
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Give me the child for the first seven years and I'll give you a license fee payer?
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Oh no, the Demon Headmaster scared the bejasus out of me as a kid.
Spookdaddy
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They might have been. But I'm pretty sure that's The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.
Swifty
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So it was, my mistake, I was mixing it up with She Watch Channel Zero ..
https://www.discogs.com/The-Disposa...y-TelevisionDrug-Of-The-Nation/release/351095
ramonmercado
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We want more Folk Horror!
Spookdaddy
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That's basically half the output of the 1970's - and you know what the grumpy auld yins on this thread'll probably say about repeats!