I Complained To The BBC Tonight

[Pete Tranter’s Sister]

You know that feeling when you quietly realise in yourself, past the fighting, past the arguments and anxiety that your missus just doesn’t give a fuck anymore and instead of championing good ol’ British indifference, they actively sabotage you and you’re only together out of habit? I had that bittersweet feeling when watching BBC Three tonight.

I sent the following complaint to the BBC and I will never watch their output again. I’ve left, I hope the children forgive me one day.

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The Totally Senseless Game Show is still on-air as I send this complaint and it has rapidly and thankfully clarified a brooding but growing feeling in my gut and heart about the BBC that has lingered for a long time. For me, it marks the end of the corporation as a viable and competent television broadcaster.

What I saw on the show tonight was nothing short of degenerate, amateur and wholly uneducated nonsense that dares to present itself as anything other than that and for the BBC to broadcast it can only mean it now panders to the whims of actual idiots in its ranks as I cannot believe, even in an increasingly jaded and distracted nation, that anyone would find this programme amusing or within the realms of decency.

I grew up watching and listening to a myriad of programmes, of all genres, on the BBC and I gained an education in comedy, documentary, the arts, drama and music from your television and radio stations. Tonight, I have seen the sad, feckless end of the BBC and I shall not be watching any further, from now until your charter is revoked in the coming years. Thank you for your time.

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[Pete Tranter’s Sister]

Ban this sick filth.

[si]

House Of Fools axed.

BOYCOTT THE BBC.

[Pete Tranter’s Sister]

House of Fools was fucking shite.

[si]

BOYCOTT PETE TRANTER’S SISTER

[Jo]

“House of Fools was fucking shite.”

Your face is fucking shite.

[John Hoare]

House of Fools was fucking shite.

You absolute fucking idiot.

[Pete Tranter’s Sister]

I’ve became a low rent Iain Lee.

[Ben Paddon]

You hope!

[Taiwan Tony]

For balance (and so this doesn’t turn into a Cocked and Bummed type assassination) I wasn’t that keen on House of Fools. I saw most of series 1 and about 7 minutes of series 2, and I felt it was, maybe, a bit underwritten. Compared to “The Smell Of…” or “Bang Bang.” And I didn’t have the time to spare watching it. Too busy writing on threads!
I feel bad that I didn’t like it, but I do not begrudge paying a license fee. Because I liked Uncle (series 1). And I also like other things the BBC produces/will produce/have produced.
Until come the glorious day and they’re all shot against a wall without so much as a blindfold.

Or something.

[Pete Part Three]

I thought it was shit too.

Bring back Shooting Stars.

[Taiwan Tony]

I thought I was Spartacus…

[Ridley]

Dear Spartacus,

I feel I really must write and protest about that post.

My husband, in common with a lot of people of his age, is Spartacus.

For how long are we to put up with these things?

Yours sincerely,
Spartacus (Mrs).

[Pete Tranter’s Sister]

Can you hear the regionals sing, nooooo, nooooo

[Pete Tranter’s Sister]

I GOT BBC THREE TAKEN OFF THE AIR.

[Ben Paddon]

You absolute fucking idiot.

[Yaron Ru]

I’m touching my genitalia.

[Pete Tranter’s Sister]

Magic, magic ‘E’

[Not John Hoare]

The BBC thread was great. It tackled very contrasting opinions about the use and validity of the licence fee in the current television landscape and it was a good debate. Being called an absolute fucking idiot was for me, genuinely the funniest response you could ever hope for because it showed the passion we all have for simply wanting quality television, regardless of how it comes about and how it is funded.

I retired from the forum after the ‘Test’ thread.

[Ben Kirkham]

It didn’t tackle or achieve anything, other than to prove that you are an absolute fucking idiot.

[pfm]

Len Goodman’s Partners In Rhyme.

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