Page 1 of Tony Hall we are living in a golden age for television-discuss

In a recent speech this was his claim.

I know it will depend on when you were born and when you watched most of your telly, but is he right?

Providing you accept the blurring of the lines between broadcast and narrowcast and also between Film and TV. I'd agree.

We do tend to view the past through rose tinted spectacles.
In my case mid 1950s going into the 1960s

Plus side: Summers used to be sunny for the solid 6 week hols which seemed to go on for ever. Rock & Roll, winning the world cup and caring about it.
Minus side: Polio, kids in school in calipers and dentists knocking you out with a gas mask and drilling your teeth with a belt driven monster with less rpm than your single on the Dansette.

There was some real shi**y stuff made back then but it's never shown and possibly wasn't even recorded.
These days the good stuff is there but it's spread across many more channels and via different means of access.

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with the exception of decent british comedy, especially comedy double acts which have all but disappeared unfortunately, what i would give for a 2 ronnies, morecambe and wise, fools and horses, steptoe and son etc etc etc......

We are definitely getting overwhelmed this year with Science fiction be it TV shows and Cinema, full of aliens and the like.

Maybe they are are trying to get us used to the idea, and break it gently to us, that we are not alone in the Universe 

Given how much broadcast television I watch, traditionally or streamed, I'd say no.

This news report has a different spin from Lord Hall...
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Lord Hall is to call for a "new golden age for British production".

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Jitendar's link is probably more to the point in that a golden age for small screen entertainment yes but not so good for the Beeb.

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For me it feels like we are in a global divide with TV, when I talk to my parents the shows they are watching are all on BBC, ITV and very rarely Channel 4.

The shows I watch are mostly on Netflix and Amazon Prime, with a bit of HBO and Showtime thrown in. Though sometimes I might watch the odd BBC series like Taboo, but that's rare.

It does seem a golden age to me, because of the budgets, stars and quality of writing. I can easily watch two hours a night of really high quality TV that 20 years ago I'd never have been able to find that much of.


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Years ago, I watch Casualty, then I "discovered" E.R. so stopped watching it, I also "discovered" NYPD Blue, so stopped watching The Bill.

I think a lot of people are a lot more choosey about what they want, as there is so much choice, so it's easier to watch quality whenever you want, but before, you'd watch certain shows as there was nothing else on, but as you say, my parents seem like yours, they record things, but don't use on demand, so they watch for the most part what's on, when it's on

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Considering how little we watch the BBC now, with hundreds of other TV channels, via all types of media....

Maybe it is time to stop paying a TV licence of a very steeply priced £145 for the BBC (which in really is just a tax on us all) and let them make their own profits, like any other company, even if it means advertising and getting rid of Cris Evans (him please).

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"Considering how little we watch the BBC now, with hundreds of other TV channels, via all types of media....

Maybe it is time to stop paying a TV licence of a very steeply priced £145 for the BBC (which in really is just a tax on us all) and let them make their own profits, like any other company, even if it means advertising and getting rid of Cris Evans (him please)."
Sorry (not sorry), but this reductive argument gets very boring. Not even going to bother to argue.

Don't worry though, the BBC is going to disappear because lots of people with vested interests are making sure that it is being choked to death.