Topic: Strictly

[Clive]

 

[Rik]

The BBC is so incredibly arrogant that complaining to them is pointless.  I wish there was an alternative.

I couldn't agree more, Gill, Auntie always knows best.

[Simon]

There is an alternative.  Don't watch. 

[Rik]

I find I rarely do these days.

[Simon]

I rarely have time. 

[Rik]

One day, when you retire, you'll have about 40 years of TV to catch up on.

[Simon]

[GillE]

It's not as simple as saying the solution is not to watch.  The rest of the programme is wholesome family entertainment and a lot of people find it very enjoyable.  It's wrong that the antics of one contestant should spoil the programme, especially when it is being broadcast at a time when you would expect families to to be viewing.  People should be able to feel that whatever they watch at that time of night will be suitable for family viewing.  What is the alternative?  That we should avoid all television broadcasting if don't want to risk seeing filth?

ITV was recently rebuked for having acts on its talent shows which were too sexually overt and the BBC needs to accept that it has also made a mistake. 

[Rik]

I suspect I'll be long dead before that happens, Gill.

[Clive]

The point is that if a member of the public committed such a lewd act in the street they would expect to be arrested.  However it seems that doing it in front of 10 million viewers during the early evening is perfectly acceptable in the eyes of the BBC.  It's just plain wrong. 

[Simon]

Michael Jackson got away with it. 

[GillE]

Before the watershed?  Did he really?

[Simon]

I'm sure he was on Top Of The Pops doing his stuff. 

[GillE]

I suspect less offensive videos would have been available for pre-watershed programmes such as TOTP.  Had it been otherwise, the National Viewers Council would have been up in arms.

Anyway, it doesn't matter if the standards were different in those days from what they are now; Robbie Savage's behaviour was not acceptable on last Saturday's pre-watershed programme.

[Simon]

I didn't see it, so I can't really comment, but it does make me wonder if the BBC put these things out deliberately, to see how much attention they can get.  I bet the show has escalated viewing figures next week.