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.
“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.
IIRC (this was months ago) the episode in question wasn’t commissioned by the BBC but by a third party
I would then ask how the production was insured if a 3rd party was able to commandeer BBC personnel and equipment.
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.
“It was an intended to be an inside joke.” - The BBC
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.
So fucking what? You’re a television broadcaster. What kind of right wing backlash could you possibly receive?
The right wing of Britain basically runs the beeb at the moment
Also the papers, the other news channels and the left wing party.
But I thought the BBC was a bunch of leftist commies?
Is this why i haven’t been able to stomach doctor who for a while, despite loving the series?
No, that was just a bad showrunner.
Cowards
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.
Fucking snowflakes
One of the many reasons I don’t pay for BBC anymore
This guy here doesn’t pay his taxes
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
TIL
For you guys it’s optional?
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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.
That’s really disappointing of the BBC.
Do we have the episode in the wild?
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.
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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.
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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.
