garyd
Thursday 10th October 2019 1:11pm
785 posts
Quote: Rood Eye @ 9th October 2019, 11:42 PM
British TV is changing but one thing remains constant: viewers still have plenty of choices.
There's some cracking stuff on the main channels but there's also some appalling dross: the same difference in programme quality is true of streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, etc.
At the end of the day, however, for a couple of quid a week you can avail yourself of a virtual infinity of televisual entertainment by subscribing to a streaming service.
Most of my viewing these days is done on Netflix but I still revert to "normal" TV to watch programmes I like.
In short, people who like Ghosts can watch Ghosts and people who don't like it might as well be philosophical and simply watch something else.
As I say, there's never been more choice when it comes to watching TV.
That's nearly a reasonable point, Rood Eye.
However, Ghosts is made by the BBC, a publicly funded broadcaster, so the quality of its product should be, and is in this case, up for heavy-duty critique. How much public money has gone towards making this very average, and relatively unfunny, programme just so that I can have the pleasure of switching to something I have paid additionally for?
Of course, the Beeb can still produce excellent, mirth-inducing classics such as Question Time.