Re: OT: Amazon to take over James Bond

On 2025-02-22 14:23:52 +0000, Blueshirt said:

The True Doctor wrote:

On 22/02/2025 00:03, Blueshirt wrote:

 The BBC do not have a lot of spare cash lying around the
place

 It's got billions.

 The BBC might earn billions, most of it income from the TV
Licence fee - but its not laying around the place to be spent
willy-nilly... or they wouldn't have gone cap in hand to outside
investors to help produce "Doctor Who".
 

and for them to do so the UK government would have to put
the TV licence fee up!

 The should scrap the licence fee and then the BBC will learn
that making woke garbage to lecture and indoctrinate viewers
instead of providing them with escapist entertainment will put
them out of business because no one will watch it.

 If the UK government decided to scrap the TV licence fee in 2027
they would replace it with some sort of 'media tax' to help fund
the BBC instead... so be careful what you wish for.

Or simply start having advertising between shows and in-show breaks, as the government-owned TVNZ networks does here in New Zealand. Maybe even the moronic pop-up adverts in the corner *during* the show that the corporate-owned MediaWorks network here in New Zealand uses as well.