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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I noted the points you made, but they weren’t questions for me to answer. I don’t speak for Nadine or anyone else in government. I notice you didn’t answer my questions either..
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Where are those shows?
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To be fair, Channel 4 has a lot of new series in prime time starting next week, but I wouldn’t call them unique. They could have appeared on any channel, frankly.
A Lake District Farm Shop
Inside the Superbrands
SAS: Who Dares Wins
The Cane Field Killings (yes, I will watch that one)
Dispatches
Travel Man
Derry Girls
Hullraisers
Grand Designs
Naked Attraction’s Best Naughty Bits (oh, please!
Luxury Homes & Gardens for Less
Taskmaster
Hotel Chocolate at Easter
So which of those, watchable though most of them might be, can be described as ‘unique’’? You can find many similar programmes on Sky, and they are not great, frankly.
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I didn’t answer your questions because they were irrelevant to the subject in hand - the proposed privatisation of C4 by this Government after consultation was conducted.
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The consultation sought respondents’ views on:
• whether they agreed that there were challenges in the current TV broadcasting market that presented barriers to a sustainable Channel 4 in public ownership.
• whether a continued Channel 4, with a continued public service broadcasting licence and remit, would be better placed to deliver sustainably against the government’s aims for public service broadcasting if it was outside public ownership.
• what the economic, social and cultural costs and benefits might be to moving Channel 4 out of public ownership.
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Any decisions, privatisation or otherwise, should be based on the remit of the consultation, not on whether you (or I) find the programmes of interest to us personally.
That’s why decision criteria are established on this type of thing - so it can be shown that any decision taken was free of bias, personal whim, or rancor towards the organisation being reviewed.
I look forward to seeing the proposed privatisation being debated in the Hpuses of Parliament, where the evidence & views can be discussed and debated, rather than a fair accompli being presented by a Secretary of State who didn’t even know how the organisation under discuss was funded…