Your thoughts on, the mess that is the BBC. (Oh Boy!)

[Nickolai77]

The problem with the BBC is it has to have a huge broad appeal which means everyone ends up paying over the odds for getting something that most of the time they don't enjoy.

What the BBC produces a lot of is programs more aimed at a certain age demographics only.

It's a public broadcaster, its entertainment shows have to have a broad appeal and be quite general rather than niche and specific. It did used to have BBC3 which I think did cater for some more specific audiences but that was a bit of a flop. BBC4 is still going and makes some good, specialist educational shows. Generally, its entertainment shows are aimed at a very general audience and that's how it should be because it's a public broadcaster. If you are not in the 'general audience' then that's not the BBC's fault.

As you said about them being politically influenced, there's very much a reason it picked up the nickname Blair's Broadcast Corporation previously. It was bad enough I stopped watching the BBC News as they were throwing such softball answers at any government politician it was a joke. It's why Channel 4 news saw a large boost for a while. Even last general election the BBC coverage was pretty shockingly one sided. Playing down the trouncing Labour took in Scotland while talking about how Labour was clearly destroying the conservatives in the UK election. I spent most of the Election coverage watching channel 4 in the end who seemed able to secure interviews with some pretty major politicians on what was in only a partially serious lot of coverage.

As for the political bias issue.. Of course there is a BBC bias but we could debate what the bias is until the cows come home. I'll just say don't fall into the trap of saying the BBC has political bias because you are either right wing or left wing. The BBC has to come down in the centre between left and right- so you're going to get right and left types unhappy with its content because they don't agree with it. That is how it should be- I'd be worried if Corbyn voting types were happy with the BBC news like I would also be worried if UKIPers felt BBC news was fair and balanced.

Most of the shows it's known for being great for are in the past now it seems. e.g.: Spooks was canned and they tried to do that Spooks code 9 thing instead (which was dire). Mighty Boosh (Canned). Ad Fab (Canned). Red Dwarf (canned by the BBC and they tried to screw over Dave when they brought it back with claims of them not having licence to do it). Alan Partridge (Canned). Outnumbered (Canned), Miranda (Canned), Jeremy Paxman on newsnight (gone), Being Human (went to absolute crap for like the last series and a half as they did a blake 7 to most of the cast then tried to run it with a new cast), Merlin (canned), The Archers (I have a parent who was an avid listener and stopped as they've made it farcical and it may be canned soon due to the loss of listener). Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes (Over and done)

Are you sure that you simply don't like BBC tv shows anymore? I just the sense the real issue could be your taste in TV programmes rather than the BBC itself going downhill.