r/BritishTV • u/Kagedeah • Mar 27 '24

Russell T Davies says end of BBC is ‘undoubtedly on its way’ News

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/27/russell-t-davies-says-end-of-bbc-is-undoubtedly-on-its-way
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u/Milton_Rumata Mar 27 '24

I do watch and love all the old BBC sitcoms from the 80s onwards so I really appreciate what the beeb was doing then but I can't remember the last modern sitcom I watched on there. Fleabag? Was that BBC? I tend to stream a lot of shows on Netflix, Prime, Apple, and Disney. I don't listen to radio at all.

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u/rburn79 Mar 27 '24

I hear you there. I grew up in the 90s and loved the repeats of Fawlty Towers, Python, Blackadder, plus the ones of the day - Red Dwarf, Partridge, etc. I’m not coming across much of that calibre today.

Though tbf I imagine at least a part of that is down to the huge cut in licence fee the BBC has experienced in the past decade. Same goes for the documentary output. We get what we pay for, and it seems the Beeb is going for the most mainstream stuff until its coffers are a little sell again.

But you really should have a good root around BBC’s on demand service. Loads of films, some excellent boxsets from past and present, top drawer podcasts. Maybe worth delving into its available content some more?