TV Programmes

Having been able to view digital programmes such as Netflix and Amazon on TV  for some while, my conclusion is that the cost of subscribing to such mainly USA companies is not worthwhile.

BBC TV I understand, cannot afford making as many programmes as it used to, but still makes some good ones. However the BBC has been around for so long that its existing store of watchable programmes is huge. For example its series called  "The Line of Duty" is not new but is a very watchable   police drama, concerned with a unit responsible for  investigating police corruption. Adrian Dunbar the Irish Actor is in my view outstanding as the unit's boss. 

Mr Dunbar  apparently will be in ITV's new drama, entitled Ridley but meanwhile is acting on stage in a musical I believe.

The BBC iPlayer has a terrific stock of films many of which are intriguing and well worth viewing, though sometimes in subtitled foreign languages. 

Then there are many series of good  dramas  one for example about about a registry office in I recall, Leeds. Although almost a soap box opera, that drama series entitled Loves Lies and Records, mrs maytrees and myself found excellent light viewing, and like all the BBC offerings in the UK, ad-free. 

On live BBC TV  there are also a few decent programmes such as Dragons' Den which this week, included Gary Neville, the retired Manchester footballer as a guest. None of the team were able to support a footballing entrepreneur directly but Mr Neville asked the entrepreneur to visit him privately about the latter's proposals, re football artefacts.

Despite having far too many game shows, the BBC iPlayer and TV  currently, more than covers the absence of expensive, usually American, digital alternatives.

Of course the BBC has lost many of its sports programmes to  companies able to pay more for them, though that did or does not, prevent the corporation from continuing to  pay one of its sports commentators a huge sum of money. The  corporation  still  engages him even after his second public taking of sides  in the ongoing warfare in Gaza/Israel, for which he was warned on the first occasion. 

Games commentators on the publicly funded TV station should not take sides in my view, about their favourite team let alone about waring countries, as many viewers will have their own favourite teams and indeed will have their own deeply held views about the kidnapping of civilians and any  ensuing wars.