Re: OT: Amazon to take over James Bond

On 2025-02-24 13:07:05 +0000, Daniel70 said:

On 23/02/2025 8:19 am, Your Name wrote:

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.

 Or they could do what Our ABC does .... when a program ends, they have a promotion (No Ads on Our ABC!) for the show NEXT up .... then go to a promotion (No Ads on Our ABC!) for an upcoming program .... and then go to the upcoming program .... you know, the program they promoted before they promoted another program!! ;-P

You should subscribe to Sky TV New Zealand ... a couple of their channels insist on playing adverts during a show's ad breaks for the current episode of the show that you are actually already watching! Or worse, playing the adverts for the previous show's episode during the next show!
Not to mention all the numerous screw-ups with the Sky TV electronic guide.

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.

 Some of our Commercial stations do that but no yet at Our ABC!!

New Zealand's TV3 is particularly bad at pop-up adverts during the show, and they are not just little things in the corner either. Luckily TV3 is mostly American rubbish so we rarely watch anything on that channel anyway.
I often wonder if pop-up adverts, squashed closing credits, badly-placed advert breaks, and cutting out small parts of episodes to fit more adverts into the "one hour" timeslot should be reported to the show's makers. The makers are unlikely to be happy at the way some networks butcher their hard work.