[davidjay]

It's massively successful overseas, adapted in 50 countries and 200 territories, with a global audience of a billion.
The BBC doesn't say how much it earns for them, but it's a big chunk of their annual £2billion revenue from sales and franchises.

That surprises me.

[Tubby Isaacs]

There's still a big call to make on the series that's already in the can. A number of contestants, particularly the ones that made it to the later stages, have got a lot invested in it. It's not going going to be fair on them to leave it on the shelf. I there's a posh one amongst them with contacts in the media, I can see a serious amount of whining on the way from the Mail/Telegraph/Times axis.

Edited to add:

Fry up for it.

Lost on you. Bunch of Philistines.

Series is being broadcast. Probably the right decision for the sake of the contestants.

[kreuzberger]

Reform aren't on Any Questions tonight so they are flying in Jizzabel from Dubai.

Jesus Christ...

[Bones McCoy]

Members with long memories may recall my highlighting a BBC story titled "Teen terror suspect arrested at Mosque".

I posted at the time, concerned that the Beeb had spun the anonymised story.
The impression being "Those Muslims, up to no good as usual".

Some context from local press suggested that the story was quite different.
But young suspect and court case pending...

Usual suspects went to town on comments and social media stirring shit (Obvs).


Well now the case is concluded and here's the report.

Teen who planned mosque mass murder given 10-year sentence

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r434nplw8o

A teenager who planned to carry out mass murder in a terror attack at a mosque in Greenock has been sentenced to 10 years in custody.

The 17-year-old was arrested in January after police caught him with an airgun and aerosol cans outside Inverclyde Muslim Centre.

The boy, who cannot be named because of his age, had planned to set fire to the building, killing any worshippers inside.

Sentencing the teenager at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Lord Arthurson said he had planned a "quite diabolical atrocity".

The judge also ordered that the teenager should serve an eight-year supervision period after his release.

But as with so much "yellow" reporting, no retraction or apology from the Beeb.


The original story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rqvxe5p09o

[kreuzberger]

The BBC being the broadcasting wing of Tufton Street and their shady and incendiary yank backers; that is nothing new.

Am I alone in thinking that it becomes worse when the Jocks are in on it? I expect fair-minded, altruism because that is the Scotland with which I am intimately and unshakeable familiar. Then come along receptacles like Kuenssberg and Adam Fleming. Then again, I am reminded, time and again, through Scots' literature that this is as old as the hills.

Treacherous wee beasties, as it were, or could easily have been.

[Bones McCoy]

I add that today's BBC News website "Top Stories" include:
* Two stories on different convicted criminals claiming "I / my pals done nuffink wrong".
* Another "what now" regarding convicted murderers who missed parole.

[Boiler]

Last night I attended a retirement party for a colleague who's decided to call it a day after 47 years.

The BBC of that time seems a world away from what it is now.

[davidjay]

As a friend of mine still employed by the BBC told me, "We've got two views to present - right-wing goes out unquestioned, everything else has to be balanced."