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Originally Posted by kirklancaster

FFS - This is outrageous. Just more atrocious misuse of tax-payers money by a corporation which contemptuously cares less and less for the old values and the public.

Don't be ridiculous, the BBC still spends plenty of money on investing in 'quality programming' such as their dramas, just because a children's show involving an egg exists it doesn't make it a waste of money. It's not supposed to be targeted at you or me.

This is exactly the kind of attitude that has led to BBC3's demise as a television channel, the belief that the only thing the BBC should be spending money on is so called 'quality' programming which is usually yet more drama, whilst anything else that caters for other demographics - especially the young in recent years - is a waste of time and money, all because the people who are setting the agenda feel it doesn't cater for them, which it shouldn't...because they're not its target market.

The point of the BBC is that it should cater for all, and while I think children's programming has gone down the pisser in the last decade, that's simply because it's no longer relevant to me, and I understandably yearn for the past. As will be the case with generation after generation. That doesn't mean I think money shouldn't be spent on it, there are plenty of things that cater for me on the BBC, and plenty of things that don't. That's the way it should be, it's not all about me me me.