• Jaysyn
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    1 year ago

    No one is more afraid of facts than right-wingers.

    The BBC strongly denied this was the case and insisted the episode in question was never intended for broadcast.

    Absolute bullshit. How embarrassing for the UK.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      951 year ago

      “Never intended for broadcast?”

      So what, we just rounded up all the lads on the film crew, loaded up all the cameras and microphones and shit, got in the helicopter and flew to some remote locations and had Attenborough read the prepared script just by accident, or what? Or just for the hell of it, for a laugh?

      Yeah, right.

      • @Womble
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        141 year ago

        IIRC (this was months ago) the episode in question wasn’t commissioned by the BBC but by a third party

        • @[email protected]
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          121 year ago

          I would then ask how the production was insured if a 3rd party was able to commandeer BBC personnel and equipment.

          • @Wrench
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            I think the BBC commissions film crews to go around the world and record nature / etc. Many times, each location shot has multiple storyboards they’re trying to fulfill for different documentaries.

            Then, that footage is available to license to be chopped up and used in any number of projects that weren’t part of the original commission.

            That’s why you see the same footage repackaged in very different ways over the years.

            So the 3rd party commission could have just been the DA narration and some short DA film clips edited over BBC content.

      • @NocturnalMorning
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        141 year ago

        “It was an intended to be an inside joke.” - The BBC

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      No, you see, we frequently produce full scale episodes of tv series that aren’t meant for broadcast. It’s like a sports team practicing a scrimmage. Totally normal extra practice for making the real eps.

  • @[email protected]
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    So fucking what? You’re a television broadcaster. What kind of right wing backlash could you possibly receive?

    • @Tronn4
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      381 year ago

      The right wing of Britain basically runs the beeb at the moment

      • @ForgotAboutDre
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        71 year ago

        Also the papers, the other news channels and the left wing party.

      • Captain Poofter
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        21 year ago

        Is this why i haven’t been able to stomach doctor who for a while, despite loving the series?

  • @[email protected]
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    381 year ago

    Fuck em, die mad, they had their chance for the last forty ish years since Reagan and Thatcher. What we got was a world of dizzying inequality, endless grift, isolation, injustice, and exclusively bullshit solutions to real problems.

  • @Weslee
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    121 year ago

    One of the many reasons I don’t pay for BBC anymore

    • @Nastybutler
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      This guy here doesn’t pay his taxes

      • @echo64
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        101 year ago

        It’s not a tax, it’s an optional fee for people who want to watch broadcast television. Which in 2023 is basically just people over 40

        • @shalafi
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          31 year ago

          over 40

          LOL, you kids. I’m 52 (American). A television is a device for displaying, infrequently, pirated content. Also, my main monitor because I’m old and blind.

        • @KISSmyOS
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  • onlylonely
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    101 year ago

    That’s really disappointing of the BBC.

  • LUHG
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    101 year ago

    Do we have the episode in the wild?

  • @Gigan
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    81 year ago

    Most main stream media doesn’t seem to care about pissing off right-wingers. I think this is so they don’t piss off the corporations that are causing the destruction.

    • @antidote101
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      91 year ago

      Should we ignore climate change because it’s old news? This is the environment… Sublem, nothing forbids articles from last march being posted here, as long as they relate to the environment.

        • @antidote101
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          11 year ago

          What’s just flame bait though, like I don’t want to make Lemmy like Reddit could be. So let’s just discuss it.

          Are you saying the original article was flamebait (intending to get people riled at the bbc), or your comment was, or any replies from here on will inevitably be?

          Because I think there’s room for criticism and frustration about all these things, and that expressing those criticisms and frustrations (even if they’re personal) shouldn’t necessarily get someone downvoted to hell.