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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Young actors if they had the talent would get breakthroughs on other channels. Why should i and the majority millions that dont' watch\listen to anything on the BBC have to continually pay for it. I am sure they would survive if they went down the road ITV have gone down jjst wouldn't be able to have such huge numbers working for them and wouldn't have such great salaries at the top i can live with that. If you want and enjoy the BBC all power to you......pay for it like i do with my cable.
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ITV is a example for the BBC not to go down that route. ITV is terrible at the moment, reality programs and when they attempt drama they just cannot do it and fall back on police/crime dramas. They tried to start a new TV show, so what did they do? Lewis! Another crime drama based on a old ITV crime drama. They do not do many new shows either.
Where would they get a breakthrough? Sky has 'dream team' which is made in the UKL and sometimes a poor documentry usually something stupid 'Why chavs are KOOL!!!!!' or such like. The other cable channels are mostly repeats and american shows. C5 dont really like British shows. Channel 4 do a couple but again a lot is american or reality programs. Documentrys sometimes. Leaves us with ITV which make few British Dramas/Comedys. Certainly nothing near the amount of the BBC.
So where would they get their breakthough? Would The Office have been made? Would Fry and Laurie be around? (No House with Laurie). and so on and so on. A bunch of famous actors started at the Beeb so I am not going to list them.
But where would all these talented British actors and comedians have come from without the BBC?
Not to mention of other channels would actually be even less likely to do anything other than the cheapest, mass-market appeal shows if the BBC entered the ad market.