What free advice can viewers give the BBC?
THE BBC is spending £50 million on audience research to find out what viewers want to watch (Mail). Since it may not be around in its present form in a few years, why waste this money? Redirect it to making new entertainment and comedy shows. As for BBC3, scrap it as it seems to have been a waste of money. The issue is that the BBC gets its money from the licence fee and then does what it likes with it.
TONY GAMBLE, Norwich. IN HIS free advice to the BBC, the Mail’s TV critic Christopher Stevens is quite right that it’s difficult to hear the dialogue. It’s not helped by the fact almost every show has tuneless background music, such as a couple of notes played with one finger on a piano, the same phrase over and over, wailing, tapping and drum beats. Now when I watch BBC dramas, I turn off the sound and turn on the subtitles. JOCELYN THOMSON,
Canterbury, Kent.
IT’S not only the BBC. Most broadcasters are guilty of obtrusive background music. As the name suggests, it should stay in the background and not drown out the dialogue.
STEPHEN TONG, Pudsey, W. Yorks. WHY does it cost £50 million to ask a few questions? Would this obscene idea be on the table if the BBC was self-funding instead of using our licence fee money?
CHRIS SHARP, Leeds. CHRISTOPHER STEVENS’S excellent article described what we want to see on the BBC. How about what we don’t want to see? Anti-Tory political bias has been allowed to seep into every BBC show, from entertainment to so-called comedies, not just the news. We want to be entertained and informed, not told what to think. Wokeness is the biggest turn-off of all.
ERIC CRAGGS, Shildon, Co. Durham.
INSTEAD of wasting £50 million on a pointless marketing exercise, the BBC could earn some Brownie points with a last-minute rescue of the ever popular Neighbours.
Mrs S. ARIS, Gawcott, Bucks. IF THE BBC really cared about what its viewers wanted, it wouldn’t have axed Holby City. To drop a programme that’s consistently at the top of the ratings was stupid and high-handed.
FIONA NORRIS, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry. WHY is the BBC bothering to spend £50 million on a survey to find out what people want? It won’t take any notice and is more likely do the opposite!
TERRY COATES, Birmingham. HERE’S my free advice. Pointless should give more screen time to questions and photos rather than endless shots of Richard Osman and Alexander Armstrong chatting.
HELEN PENNEY, Longborough, Glos.