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What is going on at the BBC right now?

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LookItsMeAgain · 10/03/2023 17:42

What with the news breaking today ( 10/03/23) that Lineker is to step back from presenting Match of the Day and now Ian Wright is also not going to appear on the show in solidarity. They also have said that they will not air a David Attenborough (what the hell did he do/say that pushed their buttons) episode due to fears of a right-wing backlash. On top of that, Fiona Bruce has said that Stanley Johnson 'only' broke his wife's nose once (I mean just how many times is too many, I ask ye).

What the hell is going on at the BBC right now????

Sources:
David Attenborough being cancelled
Gary Lineker stepping back from MotD
Ian Wright standing by Gary
Fiona Bruce story

Just wondering if anyone can make sense of what is going on in the BBC at the moment.

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VenAqui · 11/03/2023 11:37

Notonthestairs · 11/03/2023 11:34

I'd pretty much guarantee the ones most incensed by GL's tweet never watch MOTD.

I’d say that’s a fair assumption.

Piggywaspushed · 11/03/2023 11:37

That's Football Focus isn't it goodchat? Or do you mean Final Score too?

I genuinely don't think, despite what janiie and marsha are both saying there are enough wannabe presenters waiting in the wings to replace the highly regarded old guard. Jason Mahommad, for example, is a very accomplished anchor. Alex Scott is the new guard. When you say you want new people in I don't know who you mean.

These programmes may not interest you but when they have to replace them with old runs of Bargain Hunt, desperate times have been reached.

NiceHotCuppaCoffee · 11/03/2023 11:38

I just read a national saboteur state that get this they are humane...

They want that an international free for all of undocumented fit young men come here who don't have a country at war and if they do - they ard so sharp elbowed and selfishly cruel they left their women and children to suffer what they wouldn't themselves, whilst our taxpayer's are freezing and hubgry this week and funding a warm hotel and meals for these men!

Seen it all now!

Moonicorn · 11/03/2023 11:38

Notonthestairs · 11/03/2023 11:34

I'd pretty much guarantee the ones most incensed by GL's tweet never watch MOTD.

The ones approving of it probably don’t either 🤷🏼‍♀️

Seventytwosunsetstrip · 11/03/2023 11:39

GPTec1 · 11/03/2023 11:15

Ha ha i wondered how long it would be before the Tories blamed the current x channel boat crisis on Labour.

Truth hurts doesn't it ?

GPTec1 · 11/03/2023 11:39

Rhondaa · 11/03/2023 11:30

I really hope they just get new commentators in. These people surely can't believe they can say what they like when working for a public corporation with strict rules in place.
Final score. I mean without 'sneering at football' who actually gives a rat's ass about who is on these programmes.

BBC hasn't got strict rules in place

a - They are guide lines and b - don't get enforced when presenters tweet pro government lines.

Funny that.

Still no death camps survivors backing Bravermann?

Piggywaspushed · 11/03/2023 11:39

I watch it every week. Can name every presenter. That OK with you?

GPTec1 · 11/03/2023 11:41

Seventytwosunsetstrip · 11/03/2023 11:39

Truth hurts doesn't it ?

No actually its pathetic and rather desperate of you and the Cons (apt abbreviation)

the tories have been in for 13years, almost 15 by the next GE.

they have had plenty of time to fix the immigration system but haven't despite many new bills on the subject.

Notonthestairs · 11/03/2023 11:42

"people don’t show up"

He was removed from presenting because of Tory pressure. Unlike Humphrey's or Neil.

I've watched weekly since Motsons commentating era. And as an Arsenal fan I'll always tune in for Ian Wright. Last weeks was an absolute corker.

Moonicorn · 11/03/2023 11:43

GPTec1 · 11/03/2023 11:41

No actually its pathetic and rather desperate of you and the Cons (apt abbreviation)

the tories have been in for 13years, almost 15 by the next GE.

they have had plenty of time to fix the immigration system but haven't despite many new bills on the subject.

Because they can’t. Nobody can. What can anybody do?

Rhondaa · 11/03/2023 11:43

Notonthestairs · 11/03/2023 11:34

I'd pretty much guarantee the ones most incensed by GL's tweet never watch MOTD.

What has that got to do anything?!

He is a well know man because of his past football career and MOTD gig. He should stick to the rules of whoever currently pays his wages as everyone else has to.

Why do you think he should be allowed to tweet divisive and goady rubbish? This is nothing like '1930s Germany' and must be incredibly unpleasant for any survivors to have it likened to it.

We can't have boatloads of illegal immigrants pitching up every day. It is a dangerous crossing and we need to do everything we can to stop it.

Oblomov23 · 11/03/2023 11:44

I didn't even know they'd cancelled the part DA programme. Do they think we don't know about water pollution? BBC trying to control what we see.

GoodChat · 11/03/2023 11:45

Piggywaspushed · 11/03/2023 11:37

That's Football Focus isn't it goodchat? Or do you mean Final Score too?

I genuinely don't think, despite what janiie and marsha are both saying there are enough wannabe presenters waiting in the wings to replace the highly regarded old guard. Jason Mahommad, for example, is a very accomplished anchor. Alex Scott is the new guard. When you say you want new people in I don't know who you mean.

These programmes may not interest you but when they have to replace them with old runs of Bargain Hunt, desperate times have been reached.

Final Score - I got a news alert not long ago apple.news/AREMLLwh7QQOX8u0WNFiURQ

I think fair bloody play to them. Standing together against this nonsense.

Piggywaspushed · 11/03/2023 11:45

Once again janiie, it is not against the rules. It isn't in his contract.

The BBC, however, did have to apologise last night for not challenging any of Dorries' untruths when she appeared on radio 4.

What is going on at the BBC right now?
MarshaBradyo · 11/03/2023 11:45

Notonthestairs · 11/03/2023 11:42

"people don’t show up"

He was removed from presenting because of Tory pressure. Unlike Humphrey's or Neil.

I've watched weekly since Motsons commentating era. And as an Arsenal fan I'll always tune in for Ian Wright. Last weeks was an absolute corker.

I meant this

And to add to my previous catalogue of disasters , the regular presenter of Final Score has refused to present this evening.

Notonthestairs · 11/03/2023 11:46

Piggywaspushed · 11/03/2023 11:45

Once again janiie, it is not against the rules. It isn't in his contract.

The BBC, however, did have to apologise last night for not challenging any of Dorries' untruths when she appeared on radio 4.

What Janii means is she'd like it to be in his contract.

Piggywaspushed · 11/03/2023 11:46

I'm confused marsha.

MarshaBradyo · 11/03/2023 11:47

‘People don’t show up’

is relating to this

And to add to my previous catalogue of disasters , the regular presenter of Final Score has refused to present this evening.

Piggywaspushed · 11/03/2023 11:50

He's only doing the same as everyone else who 'isn't showing up'. And he is an actual journalist of considerable ability - not a monied millionaire ex footballer which seems to be a a bit of a beef.

GPTec1 · 11/03/2023 11:52

Moonicorn · 11/03/2023 11:43

Because they can’t. Nobody can. What can anybody do?

IF this is true, then why the fuss over Linekers tweet?

Braverman's new bill wont work and will be consigned to all the other 'bills on immigration.

Mountain and Mole hill spring to mind.

Aside, i happen to agree with you, outside of the EU, we will get very limited help from mainland Europe, then again Brexit was about "taking back control of borders, laws and money"

MarshaBradyo · 11/03/2023 11:53

That’s great. Considerable ability comes with opportunity first. Someone else can benefit from it.

NiceHotCuppaCoffee · 11/03/2023 11:55

It's all this leftwing Foucault ideology of blurring boundaries, boundaries of work contracts, blurred boundaries be they mixed sex, be it national borders, blurred responsibilities to your own citizens snd the vulnerable first.

I am still agog that the people inviting mixed sex spaces, are inviting in undocumented fit young men and I am as a taxpayer being told that I am the inhumane one, I am funding on and off a BBC lecturing me about the woke ideologies as if fact and no balance, i fund an NHS I can't use due to Annexe B as they will have me arrested if i am on a ward and upset a flasher, I am cold and getting sicker , funding these male supremacy ideologies - for men who treat women and the vulnerable as inferior, and you think you are the good people and humaine supporting them, I think you are the opposite.

Seventytwosunsetstrip · 11/03/2023 11:55

@GPTec1 they have had plenty of time to fix the immigration system but haven't despite many new bills on the subject.

The stumbling block is all the Leftie Lawyers who raise spurious last minute objections to stop deportation.

Seventytwosunsetstrip · 11/03/2023 11:57

Oblomov23 · 11/03/2023 11:44

I didn't even know they'd cancelled the part DA programme. Do they think we don't know about water pollution? BBC trying to control what we see.

It wasn't cancelled, Ep 6 wasn't billed to be shown.

Seventytwosunsetstrip · 11/03/2023 12:01

NiceHotCuppaCoffee · 11/03/2023 11:55

It's all this leftwing Foucault ideology of blurring boundaries, boundaries of work contracts, blurred boundaries be they mixed sex, be it national borders, blurred responsibilities to your own citizens snd the vulnerable first.

I am still agog that the people inviting mixed sex spaces, are inviting in undocumented fit young men and I am as a taxpayer being told that I am the inhumane one, I am funding on and off a BBC lecturing me about the woke ideologies as if fact and no balance, i fund an NHS I can't use due to Annexe B as they will have me arrested if i am on a ward and upset a flasher, I am cold and getting sicker , funding these male supremacy ideologies - for men who treat women and the vulnerable as inferior, and you think you are the good people and humaine supporting them, I think you are the opposite.

This ^

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