I was in hospital in Kettering England for about 3 months.the nurse told me it would have cost the NHS over a£110,000 for my treatment.I paid £0 , it’s all free.It’s not perfect but I owe them my life.
Free to use, not free to have, for anyone going to jump on him for it. Really wish we had NHS (or better, the french equivalent, even experimental drugs/treatment can be accessed), doctors are a rip off and so few are interested in treating a problem vs the symptoms. Not from the US btw.
As an Overseas Patient’s Officer in the NHS, the NHS is not free to overseas visitors- except for A&E. if you are planning to be in the UK for over six months you need to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge and you then be exempt from NHS charges. The clinical staff are not involved in the charging process so they will not know the costs involved in anyone’s treatment. The costs are coded following discharge so it can take up to two months for us to bill you for your treatment depending at what point in the month you are discharged.
@kathrynabbott5032 it's a bit patronising saying a nurse wouldn't be aware of how much a certain procedure would cost. I'm pretty sure anyone could find out that information , especially if they were in the medical profession.
QI is a fitting example of a panel show with a comical scoring mechanic. Quite Interesting by name, it's a trivia panel show in which they often subvert expectations with questions in which the most known answer is often wrong. Alan Davies is usually the punching bag, taking the obvious answer and often ends up with a large negative score. There's an entire TV channel that was created called Dave, which would proudly tout its tagline as 'The home of witty banter' as it would often air reruns of these comedy panel shows. Edit: Jay ended up mentioning it, lol
You might like SpringWatch. It's wildlife presenters observing flora and fauna during the Spring months. They have live cams so you can watch animals in their natural habitats as they raise their young.
When I had my summerhouse at the coast in the Netherlands (in the 80´s), I listened to BBC radio 1(for free). I didn´t have a TV and it was my main source for entertainment and news.
When you consider the fact that the BBC is the oldest TV broadcaster in the world and they are not a organisation designed to make a profit, just to have enough money to run their services and have been the ones to bring groundbreaking shows to the general public, like Doctor Who, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, The Young Ones, The Office, Being Human and of course the much loved and repeated Only Fools and Horses and Dad’s Army. World class news reporting, period dramas and of course it’s where The Great British Bake Off started out too. In general, the UK tv viewing public are quite happy with the production maybe not being quite as flashy as what is produced in the US, just as long as we have these ad free channels (both radio and tv of which there is so much more than was implied in this video). Add onto that the fact you have the website that offers so much including study tools for those doing their exams, things for kids, social history information, news, weather, iPlayer, a podcast server that also includes an on demand service for their radio broadcasts etc etc etc…and all for less than a multi room Netflix subscription. Oh and with how long presenters stay with the network, I think it’s safe to say that most feel they are paid a reasonable wage, the wages are in the public domain…and I’m sorry but isn’t the exuberant wages paid to those in the US tv industry just a little too excessive? Maybe if the networks didn’t have to pay everyone so much, then there wouldn’t have to be quite as many ads (from companies that want to control the content off the shows) on the tv…and then you too would have got those extra Muppets segments.
So you think Lineacres 1.3 million for his hour a week program ( in the football season), is good value? Also the great programs you mentioned are mostly from the 60s to 90s, I and most people I know really begrudge paying the licence fee. Their news is biased in line with MSM.
You have no idea how the BBC operates, BBC Studios make the programmes, sells them to the BBC for airing, BBC STUDIOS is a very profitable organisation. Furthermore, The BBC owns channels like DAVE and Gold which do show ads. There are many things I hate about the BBC, they should be a streaming service and be left to stand on their own two feet
I never said anything about the salaries being value for money, I said that the presenters themselves must see their wages as being reasonable. The fact that both sides of the political divide see the BBC as biased towards the other side kind of proves the fact that the overall network is relatively neutral even if some shows may show a slight bias in one direction or the other. Oh and I mentioned those particular shows as I was trying to go for ones that he may be familiar with. If you begrudge the license fee and hate the BBC so much, opt out of it and don’t watch live broadcasts or anything on iPlayer or use any other BBC service. No-one is forcing you into it. I personally have no issue with paying the license fee and I most definitely feel that I get great value for money in comparison to the likes of Netflix and Spotify that are in a similar cost bracket. The fact that it is still a broadcast channel as well as being online means that someone like my almost eighty year old Dad with dementia can still watch and enjoy the shows they produce, where if it was an online streaming service only, he wouldn’t be able to remember how to get the access to it. So those moaning that the BBC should be relegated to a streaming service are obviously without the understanding of how age and disabilities may affect people’s ability to comprehend such things, where picking up a remote and flicking through channels is pretty much muscle memory for many. I also may not have a perfect understanding (and to be honest, I don’t care enough to look into it or I would have already) of how the BBC works but I do know that they are not out trying to generate profits for share holder, the profits they make are fed back into the corporation and that is what I meant by stating that they weren’t designed to make a profit.
@@lynnejamieson2063 why should anyone have to buy a licence to watch commercial TV? They don't get any of the licence fee. It has been said TV companies would not like the BBC competing for their advertising revenue base. As long as the BBC spends other people's monies it won't change. Not 2 long ago both East Enders and Coronation Street, renewed their sets, Corrie came in at under £10m quid, Easter Enders set cost just under £100m. One paid by a private company the other by a public funded state entity. Today I got a letter from TV licencing, stating boldly in Large Letters on the front, Investigation Opened, it was addressed to the 'legal occupier', after dozens of letters they don't know my name, I don't get these letters from Sky, virgin, Netflix ,Disney, Of course it can all be put aside if you just buy a TV licence. Im under no obligation to reply, they are just salesmen using dubious tactics. Those least able to afford meals are being asked to help linaker's needs. I can say truthfully I do not draw a large pension like those BBC top Brass
Stanmore is one of my local suburb centres. And you are spot on, it's a just far enough out to be near the countryside and near enough to London to be right there when you want it. We have a London level of public transport with a suburban vibe. It's the Goldilocks zone.
my Favourite UK panel show is QI (Quite Interesting) it originally had Stephan fry as host now Sandi Toksvig it has 4 comedians differnt every episode apart from Alan Davies who has always been there and you actually learn stuff :) highly recommend a watch
Breaking Bad was very popular in the UK, as was MASH back in the day. And we also love Scandi Noir shows such as 'The Bridge'. The BBC not only has six major TV channels, but there are Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish channels they also run educational shows, tied to major examinations with revision note as well as CBBC for very young children. One interesting radio channel is the World Service, with contributors from literally just about every country in the world, spreading news and world events. The BBC also sponsors and organises the Music Proms, which are a series of summer concerts mainly of classical music but also modern (not pop - there are plenty of concerts and festivals for those) for example of the latter a couple of years ago the BBC Symphony orchestra produced a concert of Star Wars themes, most concerts are in enclosed venues, but there are outdoor ones as well, leading up to the Last Night of The Proms consisting of mostly British traditional classics. The Last night is also repearted live at outdoor venues across many British cities at the same time, And of course the BBC has David Attenborough - says all there is to say.😊😊
Parkinson interviewing Kermit and Miss Piggy must be one of the funniest moments on TV. With Piggy flirting outrageously with him to the point he was getting really embarrassed.
fun fact they actually tried to do doctor who in America after doctor who was cancelled (its now called the TV movie but) it was a pilot they made set in America and it flopped and though its still cannon to doctor who it is often cited as why Americanising doctor who will never work.
The tv licence is required to watch all live commercial broadcasts not just the BBC. Even if the BBC was no longer funded by the tv licence you would still have to pay it! The main difference between the BBC and American broadcasters is that a show scheduled for an hour on the BBC means a show that lasts an hour whereas in America it only lasts 40 minutes!
The reason the quality is so good on the BBC is because they’re not limited by commercial interests or what advertisers want so they can make interesting programmes and things that would be a risk on commercial TV where the only thing you care about is eyes on the screen - I’ll take that over extra shiny gloss over a more shallow product. That in a nutshell encapsulates the difference between US and UK culture, well done 😂 (And yet again the writers are the drivers of TV not the other way around, if they don’t want to write more they walk away and the show is done. The BBC didn’t hire John Cleese to write Fawlty Towers on spec for example…) Please, please read the comments…
One misunderstanding is the different use of "watershed". In the US it means the area that drains into a particular river. In the UK it means the line between such areas, where rain landing on either side of the line flows into a different river.
That’s a very American perspective on writers, as I’ve said in every video you’ve done on TV and film the position of writers in the UK is higher in the production chain than in the US - admittedly on panel and sketch shows it would be different. But TV here is not studio-led in the same way it is in the US
Have I Got News For You is still consistently brilliant. Mock The Week was also great. I was gutted when the BBC cancelled it. The Royle Family was such a clever idea, I loved watching it. I detest reality tv, it's complete b*ll*cks. We're lucky that we can get away with a lot more adult content over here. I agree in that I'm watching less tv as I'm getting older. I only watch a few programmes regularly.
I have a 'Proud of the BBC' sweatshirt purchased from Mitch Benn's online store. I know it's not fashionable just now- but I still believe the Licence Fee represents good value for money, and the way the BBC is set up influences the way other broadcast media in the uk works- in a positive way. JJ - "If they had more money they could pay better writers..." We have some damned good writers writing for the BBC as it is....we don't need 'better' writers.
Hi JJ, have a look on your map at Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. You might like it... its just 72 miles to London 55 miles tp Birmingham and 23 miles to Oxford.... just green fields and rolling hills everywhere !
Loved the Tom Baker and John Pertwee Doctor Who's as a child and cutting edge at the time, modern episodes tend not to be Cutting Edge so the fun one have tended to be comedic like the Christmas Episode with Kylie and The Face Of Bo? episode with the last human in the universe (who is a sentient tanned skin face, daughter of an American !)
I'm a Brit, living in England. I don't own a TV at all, but I'm still legally obliged to buy a TV licence in order for me to wacth anything on BBC IPlayer (or ITVx too, I think) on my laptop. I watch no more than, what, say, 30 hours of Iplayer content in a year, mostly live football (soccer) matches. It irks me to pay, but I'm terrified of breaking the law and the TV Licensing authority are pretty aggressive - they do NOT believe you don't own a TV and they have records rhat could show if you've accessed BBC Iplayer.
Yeah you need a licence if you iplayer, but for the rest of the streaming services and channels, it's only if you watch it live 'as it's streamed'. I dont pay for a licence as I just use netflix/ youtube/amazon through my console (it's an option on the opt out form) Did one have a friend a while ago though who used to switch over to her neighbours WiFi once a week to catch up on eastenders, 'just in case'. Honestly though I think they just 'best guess' and send letters to people who've not had one in a while. I used to get one every month for 3 years when I lived/worked in an ex manor house in the middle of nowhere where we could literally only stream, and the place had never had a tv licence 🤣
America tried remaking Fawlty Towers three times,the first was called 'Snavely', the Bea Arthur one (Amanda's) was the second attempt and Payne was the third!
tv licence was invented when there was only the BBC as a tv channel, it turned off at 11.30pm following a warning about unplugging your tv in case of fire or some other dire warning and then the national anthem played before the test card came up and that was you until about 6.30am, thats changed to 24 hour programmes. There are no adverts, but my god do they plug the hell out of their other shows. They do amazing costume drama, natural history, and documentaries. The news is not quite as unbiased as it once was, there is definitely a lean to it now, but it does cover everything local, national and international quite well. And weirdly our programmes here are a certain length so we can sell it to the Americans. David Attenborough natural history show for instance is followed by a short how we filmed these bats halfway up a mountain etc, the US will get just the show, and our other shows will finish a little early (for us follwed by upcoming shows ads), the US also play these programmes slightly faster especially through the end titles, increasing the gap possible for more ads at their end
The strange thing is, of course, that although everyone agrees that the BBC news coverage has "a lean to it", the DIRECTION of that lean depends a lot on who you ask.
This was their by far worst try at a remake across the pond, they say our humour is dry but that was dryer than Ghandi's flip flops in 90° weather 😂 They just have to learn to accept the British are funnier.
I am always amazed that in the USA, The Land of the Free, you are not free to watch TV without the constant interruptions of people trying to sell you something. The priorities of the US and Europe are evidential
It's ridiculous how many advert breaks are in US shows, every few minutes. Destroys getting into the actual programme. And no warning,no delineation just straight into adverts
I'm tired of adverts on British TV for funeral plans and cremations every 10 minites from early in the morning till very late its harassment im never ever gonna buy one
Programmes such as Monty Python or The Young Ones probably would not have made it to air if the BBC had commercials. Advertisers would not have taken the risk on something that might not have attracted a big enough audience
The Young Ones was funded as an entertainment programme rather than a comedy show....hence why they incongruously suddenly had a live band perform a song in the middle of the show. It was the only way they could get it last BBC funding 😄.
I only really consume talk shows in the form of RUclips clips but the main difference as far as I can tell between US and UK talk shows is that the host is on the left in UK but on right in US.
I’m from England and Gen X remember watching The Real World New York and then San Francisco in early 90s loved it!! Also you should check out Never mind the Buzzcocks quiz..the older ones not the new ones great music quiz!
Stanmore is pretty nice. I was born and raised in Watford which is a few miles further out in the same direction (just across the line from being part of London to being its own town). As Jay says, UK panel shows have their roots in BBC radio shows like The News Quiz, and even before they transitioned to TV there was a surreal parody of the format called "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" which is still going in its 81st season, 52 years later. I would LOVE to see you react to that, because you'd be amused and baffled in equal measure, but I fear it doesn't offer enough visual interest. But try it for yourself ruclips.net/video/Cae3qpsZiY8/видео.html
Being at Dad’s house, which is full of wide-screen TVs, sat watching RUclips on my phone. I can so relate to that! 😅 I think it's because we grew up with big TVs. The fact that they got thinner didn't really matter, but a mini device that goes anywhere and can fit in your pocket! That's the thing I'd go back in time and boast about to mini me! 😅
Last guy on Graham Norton couch is Grime artist Stormzy. BBC has many/mostly high quality programmes. Also a lot of diversity - such great value. Less than 1 cup of costa coffee a week. Even do BBC bitesize online that is really good educational support for students based on actual curriculum. Such a good resource.
You do have at least one panel show that I know of. Whose line is it anyway. Originated in England, a show with Clive Anderson where the points don’t matter. Ryan stiles, Colin Mochrie. Yours was hosted by Drew Carey.
Big Brother wasn't the first reality TV in the UK. I remember one in the 1970s called The Family. However, I do remember the first Big Brother being a really unusual and exciting genre at the time. Sadly no longer as the contestants know the format too well and are usually just there for the fame aspect.
Here in The Netherlands we would actually also get BBC 1, 2 and World (CNN alternative). Not sure if that’s still the case, but that massively helped me learn English. So many great comedies, nature programs (David Attenborough!!), etc.
Bea Arthur from the Golden Girls was in a Fawlty Towers adaptation called Amanda's. It was dropped before all the episodes aired. "Amanda's is the second attempted American adaptation of Fawlty Towers. The first, Snavely (also known as Chateau Snavely) starring Harvey Korman and Betty White, was produced by ABC for a pilot in 1978"
ps Dr Who is a children's programme .... its just that us British adults are quite often kids at heart .... and we've all been scared by it our childhood.
Until America ruined it nowdays. We can feel the effect of the American life in it. Political correctness in DW? Get a life Chibnall. And the new RTD? They didn’t recover yet.
@@callumcurtis15 which is about a penny a week from each of the 2M people who watch Match of the Day. Compare that outrageous figure to (say) the $25 million Sean Hannity gets per year for his show, which draws in comparable audience numbers (2.4M in Q1 2024).
Panel shows are game shows with famous people. The best panel show was Shooting Stars, it was absolutely mental. QI is also very very good and leans more into the questions and answers being 'quite interesting'.
The US has tried to remake Fawlty Towers at least twice. The Golden Girls related remake that Jay was talking about was '"Amanda's", starring Bea Arthur as the Basil Fawlty character.
In the mid sixties we had a comedy call "Till death do us part" where a US TV executive seen it and told CBS you need to make this. So, in the US they called it "All in family" Same with "Steptoe and Son" became "Sanford & Son" Yes after the Watershed you can say F%&K and sexual scenes
The three best R4 panel shows / the news quiz, just a minute and I’m sorry I haven’t a clue. Jeremy Hardy, Paul Merton and Humphrey Littleton / google, you tube all three respectively / incredible comedy.
Jay was alluding to the American Fawlty Towers remake where one of the American execs thought it would be better if they replaced John Cleese Basil Fawlty with Bea Arthur in the lead. Needless to say, it didn't work (nothing wrong with Bea Arthur, but she was wrong for the part as was turning Basil Fawlty into a woman.)
The US version of Ghosts the ghost with no pants has a noble reason for having lost his pants, whereas in the original UK version the ghost with no trousers was a cheating politician who was having an affair and died while having sex.
Couple of things. 1) the American version of One Foot in the Grave was called Becker with Ted danson. And largely forgetable. B) The office. I detested the UK office but lived the US version (not watch on loop loved but it was great). And i believe i know why, for me at least, UK was very much 'laugh at' humour where US was laugh with. Personally i find a lot of English (to make that distinction) shows are in that laugh at category, not all obviously (ofitg, dinner ladies for instance aren't) but enough that ive noticed it over the years in shows i didn't take to. And its not the popular shit on Ricky Gervais thing I loved his latest effort.
Quantum Leap was a wonderful kinda Doctor Who-ish/comparable US TV series (for me anyway). As a Scot, he's close. If you call someone a c***, you really don't like them. However, if you call them a good c***, it is pretty well the highest compliment. But a few will just use it loosely to mean anyone.
The lack of adverts has another editorial effect: it means they can be more niche. When BBC2 was started in the 1960s, it was a channel specifically for special interests that wouldn’t be commercially viable. This draws up audiences across the board. On the commercial TV side, the government set up Channel 4 in the 1980s specifically to be countercultural. This is why every Christmas they do an ‘alternative King’s speech’. It’s one of those policies that has a very wide halo effect.
Every programme on BBC has no adverts, not sponsored by anybody. If I watch a fil it's from start to finish advert free. It the same with every programme. A 3p minute show lasts for 30 full minutes.
One of the reasons the BBC is quick to give news is because of its historical network. The “beeb” is responsible for ‘The World Service’ radio programme which is decades old and had on the spot journalists around the world. One famous programme still going is ‘From our own correspondent’ where international journalists working for the beeb give in-depth views of current situations. The older ones of these are found in collections in book form and are exceptionally interesting. War journalists, political journalists reporting on coups, apartheid, famine, elections etc… We think of the BBC as a National Treasure despite some recent seedy revelations. Long may it last. As for what they could do if they allowed ads, well, working for the beeb is considered a right of passage for some, having kudos and gravitas, and has a unique (and relative) impartiality in its approach. I hate ads. I pay to not see them on here. Way to go BBC!
The BBC make more money through their commercial arm, mainly BBC Studios. Last year they made £1.9Bn in sales with £199M in profit. They produce shows which we can watch in the UK but can also be sold to other countries for instance. This is partly why the TV Licence can be as low as it is
We do have national and local commercial TV here too. Sadly, it does not guarantee better quality, although I agree you'd think it should! No difference really. But basically you can't watch TV or iPlayer without a TV licence - so everyone with a TV has to pay the licence fee, and that fee goes to the BBC, so that's millions of households each paying £145-ish per year. That then adds up to a huge fund for the BBC to play with :)
Last year, the BBC revenue was £5.7bn, of which £3.7bn was from the licence fee. Sounds a lot, but is a pittance compared with Sky TVs £14.2bn annual revenue. Even the most basic TV-only rate from Sky is £264 per year, rising to £332 per year after the introductory period.
They have flowers everywhere in the uk haha, theyre not particularly unique, london is actually 40% greenspace, 3,000 parks and totaling 35,000 acres. In the uk we have things called green belts surrounding cities too which is kept wild and people dont have 'lawns' where its just a patch of empty grass really, people usually have gardens with a bunch of flowers.
The license fee the BBC gets is £3.74bn/$4.814bn if it were a country it would be 154/188 between Eswatini and Liberia, but it’s only 65% of total income which is £5.73bn/$7.374bn making it about 148/188 same as Lichtenstein total gdp
@10:17 - there were actually THREE remakes of Fawlty Towers, the first "Chateau Snavely", starring Harvey Korman and Betty White, never went past it's 1978 pilot; the second "Amanda's" gender swapped the Fawltys, staring Bea Arthur, aired ten of thirteen episodes; the third was in 1999, "Payne" starring John Laroquette, aired eight of nine episodes produced.
Fawlty Towers has been on reruns for decades and we never get tired of watching it! The same in Australia. There were only twelve episodes made but it will never die! America/ Hollywood often sees foreign films and remakes them first the American tastes, which is basically full of slapstick, sarcasm, mockery, violence and war. British humour is much more clever. Just imagine how much better Americans would be if they learned to appreciate foreign cinema exactly as it was intended! La Cage Aux Folles(France), Seven Samurai (Japan), and Yojimbo (Japan), etc, but no, Hollywood stole the storylines and remade them as American movies, thus causing Americans to miss out on some outstanding foreign films. The Bird Cage, The Magnificent Seven, and City of Angels, just to name a few.
6:43 Making The Band was a staple of my Sunday afternoons when I was a teenager and there wasn’t any interesting sport on. I miss the simplicity of T4.
The UK version of Shameless IMO, was far superior... Also. Jay foreman has a brother who performs beatbox under the name of Beardyman. Check him out. he`s brilliant...
As well of the national psyches, I think the differences between US and UK TV is caused by money and, somewhat counterintuitively, having less is what makes British TV trounce American every time. The US can afford to churn out hours and hours and hours of trash. The law of averages suggests that every now and then something significant will come out of it. UK TV doesn't have the money to do that so has to think before acting. (Yeah, I know that nowadays there are loads of examples to point at and say "Someone THOUGHT before doing that?". It was much truer before they started to compete with things like RUclips!) Also, the US will spend thousands upon thousands on an exciting car chase that lasts a few seconds. UK TV conveys the same thing, and better, with a look and a couple of good sound effects! It probably helps that most of the UK audience has enough intelligence and imagination to work a lot of things out for themselves without needing to literally be shown pictures before they get it.
Re BBC Unbiased, I always believed this, until you star to look at the people on political commentary type shows, including things like Question Time. Also look at those in charge at the BBC, it is no longer (if it ever was) unbiased. Having said that I think it is probably better than anything in the US for its biasness. It also seems to be producing shows that are now timed as though there will be adverts, these ad breaks show adverts for the other BBC services. I think extra money in the system might give us back live sports coverage. If the BBC took adverts, would there be more money available for TV, or would it just split the money currently going to ITV, Channel 4 and 5
In terms of swearing in British TV, a show that became known for its use of fowl language was The Thick Of It, written by Armando Iannucci, it was basically the original, British version of Veep, and I highly recommend it, especially to anyone with even a mild interest in British politics. After a bit of googling, apparently it holds the world record for the most "fucks" said in one episode (an average of one every twelve seconds in S3E7), and over its four series the word "fuck" is said over 800 times and an average of 3.0 swear words per minute. In an interview with Chris Addison (cast member) and Simon Blackwell (writer), they revealed they had a "fuck/cunt exchange rate" where they had to remove a certain amount of "fucks" if they wanted to put in a "cunt" to balance it out. Oh, and it was produced by the BBC!
I REALLY love how at 11:00 Jay bitchslaps Evan without him even knowing it. Evan uses "so" without giving a "that"... and Jay, clearly irked by this, uses a string of "so's" and slaps on a "that" in order to right the balance of the universe (without hurting anyones feelings)
11:51 "The closest thing to Friends was Mates." It's interesting how they glossed over this comparison. If they had delved further (besides the fact that the show coupling is more in line with the comparison), this is very biased toward UK comedy being better. But as a Brit myself, although obviously, we win most comic comparisons 😜 credit should be given where it's due. Friends was great, and we Brits failed in copying it.
Despite being British, I side more with the US Office than the UK Office and normally it'd be the other way around, but that bias is due to never having found Ricky Gervais funny and sometimes finding Steve Carrell funny. I think The Office is a good example of doing it right. The US Office didn't try to do what the UK Office does in terms of humour because UK and US humour hits different, so it just does its own thing and try to be funny by its own right and just keep the same general idea/concept. And I think comment about not being sure people would realise The Office or The Royle Family are comedies is absolutely valid and I think that is down to how a lot of British humour can be very dry and often makes use of irony or playing off absurdity in a very straight way. My humour is very much that too and people sometimes take me seriously, when I am not being serious at all.
the trouble with the tv licence is that it doesnt go towards most of the things it claims it does. shows are made by outside companies with funding from the BBC, and then sold back to the BBC for even more money. it might seem like a good deal but when its so badly mismanaged and then also promoted as law that you must have have one even to watch non bbc programming or you will be prosecuted (using even more of the publics licence fee) then it starts to become a problem
Your assumption about ads = money = quality is the reverse of the truth. Commercial = profit = cost of program/viewer. The BBC is about broadcasting, they will make some content for minority viewing. The Proms would not happen for a commercial channel, topless darts did (in Italy!)
The BBC is great, it’s such a privilige to have an independent, non commercial broadcaster. The BBC does so much, not just TV and regularly making groundbreaking and innovative tv, the kind of thing you can do when you don’t have commercial pressures or vested interests. National and local radio stations, the world servic, BBC Films, education materials for schools. A comprehensive news service free from the influence of a billionaire owner. Conspiracy theorists and racist old farts hate it because it doesn’t promote their nutty ideas.
The points on Radio 4 panel shows are often there, I think, to make a mockery of shows where scores count. Just a Minute is not a panel show but the scoring is absurd and part of the comedy attached to the programme.
I was in hospital in Kettering England for about 3 months.the nurse told me it would have cost the NHS over a£110,000 for my treatment.I paid £0 , it’s all free.It’s not perfect but I owe them my life.
Free to use, not free to have, for anyone going to jump on him for it.
Really wish we had NHS (or better, the french equivalent, even experimental drugs/treatment can be accessed), doctors are a rip off and so few are interested in treating a problem vs the symptoms.
Not from the US btw.
Kettering has a hospital?
@@dzzope Yes, FATPOU is a bit of a long-winded phrase but people generally know what others mean by 'free'.
As an Overseas Patient’s Officer in the NHS, the NHS is not free to overseas visitors- except for A&E. if you are planning to be in the UK for over six months you need to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge and you then be exempt from NHS charges. The clinical staff are not involved in the charging process so they will not know the costs involved in anyone’s treatment. The costs are coded following discharge so it can take up to two months for us to bill you for your treatment depending at what point in the month you are discharged.
@kathrynabbott5032 it's a bit patronising saying a nurse wouldn't be aware of how much a certain procedure would cost. I'm pretty sure anyone could find out that information , especially if they were in the medical profession.
QI is a fitting example of a panel show with a comical scoring mechanic. Quite Interesting by name, it's a trivia panel show in which they often subvert expectations with questions in which the most known answer is often wrong. Alan Davies is usually the punching bag, taking the obvious answer and often ends up with a large negative score. There's an entire TV channel that was created called Dave, which would proudly tout its tagline as 'The home of witty banter' as it would often air reruns of these comedy panel shows. Edit: Jay ended up mentioning it, lol
The tv channel 'Dave' is actually _owned_ by the BBC. 🏴🙂🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 they need to leave good Top Gear alone
I've spent most of the past week watching the British gardening show Gardeners World. I've really been loving it.
You'll probably love RHS Chelsea Flower Show every May. On for over a week, twice a day.
Gardeners World is great, it can be an incredibly relaxing programme to watch.
I'll be honest, I feel like I'm about 5 years behind you.
Have you ever listened to Gardeners Question Time on the radio?
You might like SpringWatch. It's wildlife presenters observing flora and fauna during the Spring months. They have live cams so you can watch animals in their natural habitats as they raise their young.
when they mentioned fawlty towers... i couldn't help but internally yell RED DWARF...
Royle Family was a sublime piece of TV, incredible writing and acting.(edit for spelling)
*Royle*
@@AlBarzUK thank you, my mistake not sure why i did that :)
The mail box / post box has a post box topper 😊
The Royle family was one of the best programmes ever, I wish they would bring it back.
@@weejackrussell unfortunately we lost Caroline Aherne to lung cancer eight years ago, and she was a cowriter. 😢
When I had my summerhouse at the coast in the Netherlands (in the 80´s), I listened to BBC radio 1(for free). I didn´t have a TV and it was my main source for entertainment and news.
When you consider the fact that the BBC is the oldest TV broadcaster in the world and they are not a organisation designed to make a profit, just to have enough money to run their services and have been the ones to bring groundbreaking shows to the general public, like Doctor Who, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, The Young Ones, The Office, Being Human and of course the much loved and repeated Only Fools and Horses and Dad’s Army. World class news reporting, period dramas and of course it’s where The Great British Bake Off started out too. In general, the UK tv viewing public are quite happy with the production maybe not being quite as flashy as what is produced in the US, just as long as we have these ad free channels (both radio and tv of which there is so much more than was implied in this video).
Add onto that the fact you have the website that offers so much including study tools for those doing their exams, things for kids, social history information, news, weather, iPlayer, a podcast server that also includes an on demand service for their radio broadcasts etc etc etc…and all for less than a multi room Netflix subscription.
Oh and with how long presenters stay with the network, I think it’s safe to say that most feel they are paid a reasonable wage, the wages are in the public domain…and I’m sorry but isn’t the exuberant wages paid to those in the US tv industry just a little too excessive? Maybe if the networks didn’t have to pay everyone so much, then there wouldn’t have to be quite as many ads (from companies that want to control the content off the shows) on the tv…and then you too would have got those extra Muppets segments.
So you think Lineacres 1.3 million for his hour a week program ( in the football season), is good value? Also the great programs you mentioned are mostly from the 60s to 90s, I and most people I know really begrudge paying the licence fee. Their news is biased in line with MSM.
You have no idea how the BBC operates, BBC Studios make the programmes, sells them to the BBC for airing, BBC STUDIOS is a very profitable organisation. Furthermore, The BBC owns channels like DAVE and Gold which do show ads. There are many things I hate about the BBC, they should be a streaming service and be left to stand on their own two feet
worst channel scotland created was the BBC government took over it and took it to london
I never said anything about the salaries being value for money, I said that the presenters themselves must see their wages as being reasonable.
The fact that both sides of the political divide see the BBC as biased towards the other side kind of proves the fact that the overall network is relatively neutral even if some shows may show a slight bias in one direction or the other.
Oh and I mentioned those particular shows as I was trying to go for ones that he may be familiar with.
If you begrudge the license fee and hate the BBC so much, opt out of it and don’t watch live broadcasts or anything on iPlayer or use any other BBC service. No-one is forcing you into it.
I personally have no issue with paying the license fee and I most definitely feel that I get great value for money in comparison to the likes of Netflix and Spotify that are in a similar cost bracket. The fact that it is still a broadcast channel as well as being online means that someone like my almost eighty year old Dad with dementia can still watch and enjoy the shows they produce, where if it was an online streaming service only, he wouldn’t be able to remember how to get the access to it. So those moaning that the BBC should be relegated to a streaming service are obviously without the understanding of how age and disabilities may affect people’s ability to comprehend such things, where picking up a remote and flicking through channels is pretty much muscle memory for many.
I also may not have a perfect understanding (and to be honest, I don’t care enough to look into it or I would have already) of how the BBC works but I do know that they are not out trying to generate profits for share holder, the profits they make are fed back into the corporation and that is what I meant by stating that they weren’t designed to make a profit.
@@lynnejamieson2063 why should anyone have to buy a licence to watch commercial TV? They don't get any of the licence fee.
It has been said TV companies would not like the BBC competing for their advertising revenue base. As long as the BBC spends other people's monies it won't change.
Not 2 long ago both East Enders and Coronation Street, renewed their sets, Corrie came in at under £10m quid, Easter Enders set cost just under £100m.
One paid by a private company the other by a public funded state entity.
Today I got a letter from TV licencing, stating boldly in Large Letters on the front,
Investigation Opened, it was addressed to the 'legal occupier', after dozens of letters they don't know my name, I don't get these letters from Sky, virgin, Netflix ,Disney, Of course it can all be put aside if you just buy a TV licence.
Im under no obligation to reply, they are just salesmen using dubious tactics. Those least able to afford meals are being asked to help linaker's needs. I can say truthfully I do not draw a large pension like those BBC top Brass
Stanmore is one of my local suburb centres. And you are spot on, it's a just far enough out to be near the countryside and near enough to London to be right there when you want it. We have a London level of public transport with a suburban vibe. It's the Goldilocks zone.
15:20 I was born in St Helens, and lived and worked in both Liverpool and Manchester,
completely different dialects forged over time.
When I was young Star Trek lasted 40 minutes because it was on the BBC
my Favourite UK panel show is QI (Quite Interesting) it originally had Stephan fry as host now Sandi Toksvig it has 4 comedians differnt every episode apart from Alan Davies who has always been there and you actually learn stuff :) highly recommend a watch
Breaking Bad was very popular in the UK, as was MASH back in the day. And we also love Scandi Noir shows such as 'The Bridge'. The BBC not only has six major TV channels, but there are Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish channels they also run educational shows, tied to major examinations with revision note as well as CBBC for very young children. One interesting radio channel is the World Service, with contributors from literally just about every country in the world, spreading news and world events. The BBC also sponsors and organises the Music Proms, which are a series of summer concerts mainly of classical music but also modern (not pop - there are plenty of concerts and festivals for those) for example of the latter a couple of years ago the BBC Symphony orchestra produced a concert of Star Wars themes, most concerts are in enclosed venues, but there are outdoor ones as well, leading up to the Last Night of The Proms consisting of mostly British traditional classics. The Last night is also repearted live at outdoor venues across many British cities at the same time, And of course the BBC has David Attenborough - says all there is to say.😊😊
Soap ! Very strange but fun, probably wouldn't get made now ? Especially in US ?
would i lie to you is my favorite panel show
'Parkinson' was the OG/GOAT of chat shows, I recommend a watch of them JJ
Parkinson interviewing Kermit and Miss Piggy must be one of the funniest moments on TV.
With Piggy flirting outrageously with him to the point he was getting really embarrassed.
fun fact they actually tried to do doctor who in America after doctor who was cancelled (its now called the TV movie but) it was a pilot they made set in America and it flopped and though its still cannon to doctor who it is often cited as why Americanising doctor who will never work.
The tv licence is required to watch all live commercial broadcasts not just the BBC. Even if the BBC was no longer funded by the tv licence you would still have to pay it! The main difference between the BBC and American broadcasters is that a show scheduled for an hour on the BBC means a show that lasts an hour whereas in America it only lasts 40 minutes!
The reason the quality is so good on the BBC is because they’re not limited by commercial interests or what advertisers want so they can make interesting programmes and things that would be a risk on commercial TV where the only thing you care about is eyes on the screen - I’ll take that over extra shiny gloss over a more shallow product.
That in a nutshell encapsulates the difference between US and UK culture, well done 😂
(And yet again the writers are the drivers of TV not the other way around, if they don’t want to write more they walk away and the show is done. The BBC didn’t hire John Cleese to write Fawlty Towers on spec for example…)
Please, please read the comments…
Agreed, Fawlty Towers was only a total of 12 episodes, also a lot of British shows will pull the plug before it gets stale
One misunderstanding is the different use of "watershed". In the US it means the area that drains into a particular river. In the UK it means the line between such areas, where rain landing on either side of the line flows into a different river.
Also means after 9pm when it’s theoretically safe to show adult content because the kids are tucked up in bed. Dream on.
Loved, shows of 60/ 70s and black white films from 1950s. Star trek and poledark in 70s. I was 5 years old when we got a tv.
Stanmore is technically London, the very edge but still in the city - very posh area (even for Harrow).
That’s a very American perspective on writers, as I’ve said in every video you’ve done on TV and film the position of writers in the UK is higher in the production chain than in the US - admittedly on panel and sketch shows it would be different. But TV here is not studio-led in the same way it is in the US
Jay is so right, we just love a bit of misery here. I find this hilarious in itself!
Faulty Towers has been made 3 times in the US one time with Bea Arthur. But they always left out the angry owner of the Hotel which was pointless.
Have I Got News For You is still consistently brilliant. Mock The Week was also great. I was gutted when the BBC cancelled it. The Royle Family was such a clever idea, I loved watching it.
I detest reality tv, it's complete b*ll*cks.
We're lucky that we can get away with a lot more adult content over here.
I agree in that I'm watching less tv as I'm getting older. I only watch a few programmes regularly.
I have a 'Proud of the BBC' sweatshirt purchased from Mitch Benn's online store.
I know it's not fashionable just now- but I still believe the Licence Fee represents good value for money, and the way the BBC is set up influences the way other broadcast media in the uk works- in a positive way.
JJ - "If they had more money they could pay better writers..." We have some damned good writers writing for the BBC as it is....we don't need 'better' writers.
Hi JJ, have a look on your map at Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. You might like it... its just 72 miles to London 55 miles tp Birmingham and 23 miles to Oxford.... just green fields and rolling hills everywhere !
Loved the Tom Baker and John Pertwee Doctor Who's as a child and cutting edge at the time, modern episodes tend not to be Cutting Edge so the fun one have tended to be comedic like the Christmas Episode with Kylie and The Face Of Bo? episode with the last human in the universe (who is a sentient tanned skin face, daughter of an American !)
I'm a Brit, living in England. I don't own a TV at all, but I'm still legally obliged to buy a TV licence in order for me to wacth anything on BBC IPlayer (or ITVx too, I think) on my laptop. I watch no more than, what, say, 30 hours of Iplayer content in a year, mostly live football (soccer) matches. It irks me to pay, but I'm terrified of breaking the law and the TV Licensing authority are pretty aggressive - they do NOT believe you don't own a TV and they have records rhat could show if you've accessed BBC Iplayer.
Yeah you need a licence if you iplayer, but for the rest of the streaming services and channels, it's only if you watch it live 'as it's streamed'.
I dont pay for a licence as I just use netflix/ youtube/amazon through my console (it's an option on the opt out form)
Did one have a friend a while ago though who used to switch over to her neighbours WiFi once a week to catch up on eastenders, 'just in case'.
Honestly though I think they just 'best guess' and send letters to people who've not had one in a while.
I used to get one every month for 3 years when I lived/worked in an ex manor house in the middle of nowhere where we could literally only stream, and the place had never had a tv licence 🤣
America tried remaking Fawlty Towers three times,the first was called 'Snavely', the Bea Arthur one (Amanda's) was the second attempt and Payne was the third!
tv licence was invented when there was only the BBC as a tv channel, it turned off at 11.30pm following a warning about unplugging your tv in case of fire or some other dire warning and then the national anthem played before the test card came up and that was you until about 6.30am, thats changed to 24 hour programmes. There are no adverts, but my god do they plug the hell out of their other shows. They do amazing costume drama, natural history, and documentaries. The news is not quite as unbiased as it once was, there is definitely a lean to it now, but it does cover everything local, national and international quite well. And weirdly our programmes here are a certain length so we can sell it to the Americans. David Attenborough natural history show for instance is followed by a short how we filmed these bats halfway up a mountain etc, the US will get just the show, and our other shows will finish a little early (for us follwed by upcoming shows ads), the US also play these programmes slightly faster especially through the end titles, increasing the gap possible for more ads at their end
The strange thing is, of course, that although everyone agrees that the BBC news coverage has "a lean to it", the DIRECTION of that lean depends a lot on who you ask.
The US version of Red dwarf springs to mind
This was their by far worst try at a remake across the pond, they say our humour is dry but that was dryer than Ghandi's flip flops in 90° weather 😂 They just have to learn to accept the British are funnier.
I am always amazed that in the USA, The Land of the Free, you are not free to watch TV without the constant interruptions of people trying to sell you something. The priorities of the US and Europe are evidential
We aren't either. Only the BBC doesn't, and we pay through the nose for that, whether we watch it or not. Frankly, I'd rather have the choice
It's ridiculous how many advert breaks are in US shows, every few minutes. Destroys getting into the actual programme. And no warning,no delineation just straight into adverts
I'm tired of adverts on British TV for funeral plans and cremations every 10 minites from early in the morning till very late its harassment im never ever gonna buy one
Adverts are every 15 minutes....are you watching on American site?
Chat/talk shows are not panel shows. Think of them as comedy quiz shows focused on a particular theme or subject.
Programmes such as Monty Python or The Young Ones probably would not have made it to air if the BBC had commercials. Advertisers would not have taken the risk on something that might not have attracted a big enough audience
Out now the newest album of Cliff Richard!
The Young Ones was funded as an entertainment programme rather than a comedy show....hence why they incongruously suddenly had a live band perform a song in the middle of the show. It was the only way they could get it last BBC funding 😄.
@@annicecooper8105 Doctor Martin´s ! Doctor Martin´s! Doctor martin´s boots!
@@cyrielwollring4622 my favourite appearance was Motorhead as at the time an older brother was a big fan. 😄👌
@@cyrielwollring4622 it's also not a BBC programme
love having no adverts.
I don't watch or listen to any BBC, but you still need a licence if you watch any other channel live. I've not for years and cancelled my TV licence.
I only really consume talk shows in the form of RUclips clips but the main difference as far as I can tell between US and UK talk shows is that the host is on the left in UK but on right in US.
I’m from England and Gen X remember watching The Real World New York and then San Francisco in early 90s loved it!! Also you should check out Never mind the Buzzcocks quiz..the older ones not the new ones great music quiz!
Need a 50's throwback in the hotseat
One of the first reality TV was in the 70's called The Family.
Stanmore is pretty nice. I was born and raised in Watford which is a few miles further out in the same direction (just across the line from being part of London to being its own town).
As Jay says, UK panel shows have their roots in BBC radio shows like The News Quiz, and even before they transitioned to TV there was a surreal parody of the format called "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" which is still going in its 81st season, 52 years later. I would LOVE to see you react to that, because you'd be amused and baffled in equal measure, but I fear it doesn't offer enough visual interest. But try it for yourself ruclips.net/video/Cae3qpsZiY8/видео.html
I probably listen to the radio more than watch TV now - but almost certainly enjoy more panel shows than ever (thanks to BBC Radio 4/Extra).
Being at Dad’s house, which is full of wide-screen TVs, sat watching RUclips on my phone. I can so relate to that! 😅 I think it's because we grew up with big TVs. The fact that they got thinner didn't really matter, but a mini device that goes anywhere and can fit in your pocket! That's the thing I'd go back in time and boast about to mini me! 😅
Last guy on Graham Norton couch is Grime artist Stormzy. BBC has many/mostly high quality programmes. Also a lot of diversity - such great value. Less than 1 cup of costa coffee a week. Even do BBC bitesize online that is really good educational support for students based on actual curriculum. Such a good resource.
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@@ThePeterCorneBritish Grime and rap artist. He headlined Glastonbury in 2019.
You do have at least one panel show that I know of. Whose line is it anyway. Originated in England, a show with Clive Anderson where the points don’t matter. Ryan stiles, Colin Mochrie. Yours was hosted by Drew Carey.
Big Brother wasn't the first reality TV in the UK. I remember one in the 1970s called The Family. However, I do remember the first Big Brother being a really unusual and exciting genre at the time. Sadly no longer as the contestants know the format too well and are usually just there for the fame aspect.
Here in The Netherlands we would actually also get BBC 1, 2 and World (CNN alternative). Not sure if that’s still the case, but that massively helped me learn English. So many great comedies, nature programs (David Attenborough!!), etc.
Nature 'programmes' if it was the BBC. 😊
@@reluctantheist5224 Ah yes, well I did also watch American shows ;)
The American swearing thing is so real- I've seen things censored that aren't even swear words like "damn" and "for god's sake(s)"! It's insane!
Bea Arthur from the Golden Girls was in a Fawlty Towers adaptation called Amanda's. It was dropped before all the episodes aired. "Amanda's is the second attempted American adaptation of Fawlty Towers. The first, Snavely (also known as Chateau Snavely) starring Harvey Korman and Betty White, was produced by ABC for a pilot in 1978"
You’ve got to watch Weeping Angels best Dr who episode 😊
ps Dr Who is a children's programme .... its just that us British adults are quite often kids at heart .... and we've all been scared by it our childhood.
Until America ruined it nowdays. We can feel the effect of the American life in it. Political correctness in DW? Get a life Chibnall. And the new RTD? They didn’t recover yet.
Dr Who is no longer a children's show unless you want to push the LGBT agenda on them.
@@B-A-L get a life.
The BBC already makes by far the best content in the UK, so having more money from advertising wont make a positive difference.
Don't know when this was recorded but a TV licence in 2024 is £169.50.
Would not know as not dumb enough to pay it lmao.
And over 1 million a year straight into Gary lineker's bank account 😂.
It was made 5 years ago.
Giving the BBC money is just basically funding corruption and peados
@@callumcurtis15 which is about a penny a week from each of the 2M people who watch Match of the Day. Compare that outrageous figure to (say) the $25 million Sean Hannity gets per year for his show, which draws in comparable audience numbers (2.4M in Q1 2024).
Panel shows are game shows with famous people. The best panel show was Shooting Stars, it was absolutely mental. QI is also very very good and leans more into the questions and answers being 'quite interesting'.
The US has tried to remake Fawlty Towers at least twice. The Golden Girls related remake that Jay was talking about was '"Amanda's", starring Bea Arthur as the Basil Fawlty character.
In the mid sixties we had a comedy call "Till death do us part" where a US TV executive seen it and told CBS you need to make this. So, in the US they called it "All in family"
Same with "Steptoe and Son" became "Sanford & Son"
Yes after the Watershed you can say F%&K and sexual scenes
The BBC makes a lot of money selling their shows and IP all over the world. Couldn't do without it. And most panel shows came from the radio.
I thought JJ had already watched this video about British tv by Evan and Jay.. ?!
"Inform, educate, entertain"
Love the BBC, but starved of funds by the tories / R4 was the home of drama and read books - but now is cheap phone ins and banal podcasts.
The three best R4 panel shows / the news quiz, just a minute and I’m sorry I haven’t a clue.
Jeremy Hardy, Paul Merton and Humphrey Littleton / google, you tube all three respectively / incredible comedy.
@spruce381 Curious where does the BBC's masterpiece EastEnders , fit in to "inform, educate and entertain"
Jay was alluding to the American Fawlty Towers remake where one of the American execs thought it would be better if they replaced John Cleese Basil Fawlty with
Bea Arthur in the lead.
Needless to say, it didn't work (nothing wrong with Bea Arthur, but she was wrong for the part as was turning Basil Fawlty into a woman.)
The US version of Ghosts the ghost with no pants has a noble reason for having lost his pants, whereas in the original UK version the ghost with no trousers was a cheating politician who was having an affair and died while having sex.
Couple of things.
1) the American version of One Foot in the Grave was called Becker with Ted danson. And largely forgetable.
B) The office. I detested the UK office but lived the US version (not watch on loop loved but it was great). And i believe i know why, for me at least, UK was very much 'laugh at' humour where US was laugh with.
Personally i find a lot of English (to make that distinction) shows are in that laugh at category, not all obviously (ofitg, dinner ladies for instance aren't) but enough that ive noticed it over the years in shows i didn't take to. And its not the popular shit on Ricky Gervais thing I loved his latest effort.
Quantum Leap was a wonderful kinda Doctor Who-ish/comparable US TV series (for me anyway). As a Scot, he's close. If you call someone a c***, you really don't like them. However, if you call them a good c***, it is pretty well the highest compliment. But a few will just use it loosely to mean anyone.
The lack of adverts has another editorial effect: it means they can be more niche. When BBC2 was started in the 1960s, it was a channel specifically for special interests that wouldn’t be commercially viable. This draws up audiences across the board. On the commercial TV side, the government set up Channel 4 in the 1980s specifically to be countercultural. This is why every Christmas they do an ‘alternative King’s speech’. It’s one of those policies that has a very wide halo effect.
The BBC makes a lot ofmoney selling programs all over the world.The nature programs sell very well as does programs like Doctor Who.
In Australia 🇦🇺 we get a lot of BBC television programs.
I personally like like British television more than from the USA 🇺🇸 .
Every programme on BBC has no adverts, not sponsored by anybody. If I watch a fil it's from start to finish advert free. It the same with every programme. A 3p minute show lasts for 30 full minutes.
9 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Q.I. are my favourite UK panel shows..even re-runs - still beat a lot of other cr*p on TV.
I really like Q.I. and will regularly watch reruns of it. The new Never Mind The Buzzcocks is hilarious.
*8 😂
9 out of 10 cats… I don’t think I have seen that 😂
One of the reasons the BBC is quick to give news is because of its historical network. The “beeb” is responsible for ‘The World Service’ radio programme which is decades old and had on the spot journalists around the world. One famous programme still going is ‘From our own correspondent’ where international journalists working for the beeb give in-depth views of current situations. The older ones of these are found in collections in book form and are exceptionally interesting. War journalists, political journalists reporting on coups, apartheid, famine, elections etc… We think of the BBC as a National Treasure despite some recent seedy revelations. Long may it last. As for what they could do if they allowed ads, well, working for the beeb is considered a right of passage for some, having kudos and gravitas, and has a unique (and relative) impartiality in its approach. I hate ads. I pay to not see them on here. Way to go BBC!
Same in Wales, it’s almost a term of endearment 😁
The BBC make more money through their commercial arm, mainly BBC Studios. Last year they made £1.9Bn in sales with £199M in profit. They produce shows which we can watch in the UK but can also be sold to other countries for instance. This is partly why the TV Licence can be as low as it is
We do have national and local commercial TV here too. Sadly, it does not guarantee better quality, although I agree you'd think it should! No difference really. But basically you can't watch TV or iPlayer without a TV licence - so everyone with a TV has to pay the licence fee, and that fee goes to the BBC, so that's millions of households each paying £145-ish per year. That then adds up to a huge fund for the BBC to play with :)
Last year, the BBC revenue was £5.7bn, of which £3.7bn was from the licence fee. Sounds a lot, but is a pittance compared with Sky TVs £14.2bn annual revenue. Even the most basic TV-only rate from Sky is £264 per year, rising to £332 per year after the introductory period.
The BBC also has a number of commercial channels, broadcast across the world.
They have flowers everywhere in the uk haha, theyre not particularly unique, london is actually 40% greenspace, 3,000 parks and totaling 35,000 acres. In the uk we have things called green belts surrounding cities too which is kept wild and people dont have 'lawns' where its just a patch of empty grass really, people usually have gardens with a bunch of flowers.
London has more trees than people!
Me and Jay are were basically neighbours...kinda. I'm from Edgware which is just down the road from Stanmore.
And weirdly we're the same age 🤷
The license fee the BBC gets is £3.74bn/$4.814bn if it were a country it would be 154/188 between Eswatini and Liberia, but it’s only 65% of total income which is £5.73bn/$7.374bn making it about 148/188 same as Lichtenstein total gdp
Now the tv licence is almost £170 a year in 2024. Good panel shows are QI, Mock the week & would I lie to you , all very funny and enjoyable. 😂👌🏻
Have you got a Patreon?? Would happily pay 2 or 3 quid a month to see you react to our comedy shows!
@10:17 - there were actually THREE remakes of Fawlty Towers, the first "Chateau Snavely", starring Harvey Korman and Betty White, never went past it's 1978 pilot; the second "Amanda's" gender swapped the Fawltys, staring Bea Arthur, aired ten of thirteen episodes; the third was in 1999, "Payne" starring John Laroquette, aired eight of nine episodes produced.
Taylor Tomlinson's show After Midnight can be considered a Panel Show.
Team Jay here. The UK Office is in a different league to anything else, let alone the US Office. And The Royle Family isn't far behind.
Fawlty Towers has been on reruns for decades and we never get tired of watching it! The same in Australia. There were only twelve episodes made but it will never die! America/ Hollywood often sees foreign films and remakes them first the American tastes, which is basically full of slapstick, sarcasm, mockery, violence and war. British humour is much more clever. Just imagine how much better Americans would be if they learned to appreciate foreign cinema exactly as it was intended! La Cage Aux Folles(France), Seven Samurai (Japan), and Yojimbo (Japan), etc, but no, Hollywood stole the storylines and remade them as American movies, thus causing Americans to miss out on some outstanding foreign films. The Bird Cage, The Magnificent Seven, and City of Angels, just to name a few.
I just watched "Person of Interest" which you couldn`t make today as there are no Landline phone call boxes.
There are at least two I’ve seen recently.
(🤔 But maybe disconnected!)
Half a million households cancelled their licence fee last year.
Bet they still consume it every now and then though.
I’d rather watch British TV any day. Great acting and writing characters with substance. Life on Mars is another interesting comparison in style
6:43 Making The Band was a staple of my Sunday afternoons when I was a teenager and there wasn’t any interesting sport on. I miss the simplicity of T4.
The UK version of Shameless IMO, was far superior...
Also. Jay foreman has a brother who performs beatbox under the name of Beardyman. Check him out. he`s brilliant...
As well of the national psyches, I think the differences between US and UK TV is caused by money and, somewhat counterintuitively, having less is what makes British TV trounce American every time. The US can afford to churn out hours and hours and hours of trash. The law of averages suggests that every now and then something significant will come out of it. UK TV doesn't have the money to do that so has to think before acting. (Yeah, I know that nowadays there are loads of examples to point at and say "Someone THOUGHT before doing that?". It was much truer before they started to compete with things like RUclips!) Also, the US will spend thousands upon thousands on an exciting car chase that lasts a few seconds. UK TV conveys the same thing, and better, with a look and a couple of good sound effects! It probably helps that most of the UK audience has enough intelligence and imagination to work a lot of things out for themselves without needing to literally be shown pictures before they get it.
Re BBC Unbiased, I always believed this, until you star to look at the people on political commentary type shows, including things like Question Time.
Also look at those in charge at the BBC, it is no longer (if it ever was) unbiased.
Having said that I think it is probably better than anything in the US for its biasness.
It also seems to be producing shows that are now timed as though there will be adverts, these ad breaks show adverts for the other BBC services.
I think extra money in the system might give us back live sports coverage.
If the BBC took adverts, would there be more money available for TV, or would it just split the money currently going to ITV, Channel 4 and 5
The percentage of people who think the BBC is biased to the right, is matched by those who think it is biased to the left.
In terms of swearing in British TV, a show that became known for its use of fowl language was The Thick Of It, written by Armando Iannucci, it was basically the original, British version of Veep, and I highly recommend it, especially to anyone with even a mild interest in British politics. After a bit of googling, apparently it holds the world record for the most "fucks" said in one episode (an average of one every twelve seconds in S3E7), and over its four series the word "fuck" is said over 800 times and an average of 3.0 swear words per minute. In an interview with Chris Addison (cast member) and Simon Blackwell (writer), they revealed they had a "fuck/cunt exchange rate" where they had to remove a certain amount of "fucks" if they wanted to put in a "cunt" to balance it out. Oh, and it was produced by the BBC!
I REALLY love how at 11:00 Jay bitchslaps Evan without him even knowing it. Evan uses "so" without giving a "that"... and Jay, clearly irked by this, uses a string of "so's" and slaps on a "that" in order to right the balance of the universe (without hurting anyones feelings)
11:51 "The closest thing to Friends was Mates." It's interesting how they glossed over this comparison. If they had delved further (besides the fact that the show coupling is more in line with the comparison), this is very biased toward UK comedy being better. But as a Brit myself, although obviously, we win most comic comparisons 😜 credit should be given where it's due. Friends was great, and we Brits failed in copying it.
Despite being British, I side more with the US Office than the UK Office and normally it'd be the other way around, but that bias is due to never having found Ricky Gervais funny and sometimes finding Steve Carrell funny.
I think The Office is a good example of doing it right. The US Office didn't try to do what the UK Office does in terms of humour because UK and US humour hits different, so it just does its own thing and try to be funny by its own right and just keep the same general idea/concept.
And I think comment about not being sure people would realise The Office or The Royle Family are comedies is absolutely valid and I think that is down to how a lot of British humour can be very dry and often makes use of irony or playing off absurdity in a very straight way. My humour is very much that too and people sometimes take me seriously, when I am not being serious at all.
The BBC is known for quality programming - it's not just the number of channels/websites/radio stations/etc that we get for our £100/year :)
the trouble with the tv licence is that it doesnt go towards most of the things it claims it does. shows are made by outside companies with funding from the BBC, and then sold back to the BBC for even more money. it might seem like a good deal but when its so badly mismanaged and then also promoted as law that you must have have one even to watch non bbc programming or you will be prosecuted (using even more of the publics licence fee) then it starts to become a problem
Your assumption about ads = money = quality is the reverse of the truth. Commercial = profit = cost of program/viewer. The BBC is about broadcasting, they will make some content for minority viewing. The Proms would not happen for a commercial channel, topless darts did (in Italy!)
I'm moving to Italy.
I'm with Data. Ah. TV. Yes, that used to be quite popular.
The BBC is great, it’s such a privilige to have an independent, non commercial broadcaster. The BBC does so much, not just TV and regularly making groundbreaking and innovative tv, the kind of thing you can do when you don’t have commercial pressures or vested interests. National and local radio stations, the world servic, BBC Films, education materials for schools. A comprehensive news service free from the influence of a billionaire owner.
Conspiracy theorists and racist old farts hate it because it doesn’t promote their nutty ideas.
15:40 They tried to reboot Doctor Who as a co-production with some US station in 1996. The result was a movie that failed.
The points on Radio 4 panel shows are often there, I think, to make a mockery of shows where scores count. Just a Minute is not a panel show but the scoring is absurd and part of the comedy attached to the programme.
Exactly 🥲
A panel show is a show with multiple guests at once, not neccesarily comedy shows, regular talk shows or some news shows contain a "panel" of guests