BBC1 - has it lost the plot? (BBC 1)

Member Name: ruthiew

Product:	BBC 1
Date:	28/01/02 (28 review reads)
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Advantages: None really

Disadvantages: Too much non-regional sport, Self-promotion ads

I used to really enjoy BBC1, but now I am really beginning to wonder.

How much of our TV Licence money is currently being wasted on these little self-promotion links we are getting in between programmes? I think it is a dreadful waste of money, and it only serves to highlight that they are spending less money on actual programmes, reducing them in length so as to fit in these little "ads".

Especially annoying is that most of the ads concentrate on sport, of which there is already too much on the TV. For example, I am seriously annoyed today (Sunday) because BBC1 Scotland have been showing 2 English football cup matches. As if I am really that interested. OK, so some people living in Scotland might well follow the English game, but do we really have to have so much of it shoved at us? I'm sure there are Scottish league and cup games that could have been broadcast, and which may well have appealed to a broader audience.

Can we have a bit of patriotism, BBC Scotland, please?

But not more of the sort that "Monarch of the Glen" has become. The first 2 series were eminently watchable but this last has been quite tedious. The storylines have been incredibly thin, and to kill off poor Hector - Richard Briers was one of plus points of the show.

As digital TV is now upon us, I for one, am not about to rush out and get myself a digibox and minidish or whatever else I need in order to get a load more channels (how many will be that much better to watch?). Instead of that, I would prefer to see a change in progamme commissioning and scheduling for terrestrial TV, as the current offerings are very unappetising.

Alternatively, as the 1980s kids programme "Why Don't You?" said, I could "just switch off and go and do something less boring instead !"

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