To think Charlie from Casualty is overpaid?

[HarryBiscuit]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40653383

£350-400k for the last financial year.

He has ONE facial expression!

The BBC should stick to providing solid service and forget about chasing celebrity names with wads of cash at the expense of license fee payers.

What is "solid service" Dreich? Does that mean that the BBC can only do news, Radio 4 and period dramas?

What one person wants from a public service broadcaster is very different to what another wants. Although I could easily get rid of Casualty, Eastenders, Strictly and Top Gear these programmes are important to others. Sometimes I think that when people talk about BBC sticking to its strengths they really mean that the BBC should get rid of anything that isn't middle class enough.

Do what you do well with production values but don't get sucked into believing the hype over many ( not all) of the "talent".

Very few people are irreplaceable in the workplace.

I'm not from middle class.
Most football fans I know don't think Lineker is worth it btw.

Strictly is as much about the pro dancers/ teachers, band and the costume dept as any one presenter for example.

It reminds me of business boards all employing one another in a merry go round of appointments within a shallow group of people. Then claiming scarcity runs up pay, while society as a whole wonders at the pay inequality.

It's one thing to have malfunctioning capitalism and we scratch our heads about it but controlling BBC pay should be an easier task.

If there was a will to do so..

Steve Wright clearly knows where the bodies are buried...... £500,000 for that crock of shite.

This ^^ kind of thing –'Why do they pay x so much, he/she is shite', is just one of the reasons why making pay into an issue like this isn't meaningful.

One person's favourite presenter, their 'worth the license fee on their own' figure, might be another person's most hated. You can't judge pay by such subjective means.

... Charlie from Casualty is probably the only nurse in the country on the correct pay scale for working in an A and E Dept.

Will say this and then RTFT:

YES, he's overpaid!!. He CAN'T ACT!!

This (after noting the gender pay gap) was the main thing I noticed

alizziebee

You are right

Right. Read it. I don't have any real issue with anyone else (aside from the gender gap). They do their bit. I love the BBC.

But that Charlie bloke

Open letter signed by many high profile women at the BBC:

Good to see CaveMum.

They are all shite.

Only a complete berk would pay the licensing fee.

The BBC revelations on pay now explains how Claudia Winkleman can recommend a white shirt with Dandy characters on it for £495 in the Sunday Times Style section today

She was also on about mortgages and appointments with the bank manager in that article. She's a very high earner and her husband is a multi millionaire. Who is she kidding?

I like her on SCD though!

Yeah I can't get mad about Claudia's pay. She's great on SCD.

Claudia Winkleman earns more that Laura Kuenssberg

I like Claudia but her mothers connections have helped her far more that what was ever needed and her salary being higher than LK is ridiculous LK coverage of the referendum was outstanding and she absolutely should be one of the highest paid at the BBC

She also mentions getting an overdraft. A cynical person would say that column was timed to be published to coincide with this week's outcry about BBC pay.

She would have been better just not saying anything at the moment tbh. (As before, nothing against her, am pleased there was at least 1 woman in the top 10 earners.)

*Oh, I don't fucking care how much a few BBC people get paid.

It's just the Tories whipping up outrage for the Daily Mail crowd. It'll end in the Beeb being privatised.*

I totally agree. ITV probably pays equally outrageous salaries too. The whole BBC transparency thing is politically motivated because the Tories don't like the BBC.

The gender and minority pay gap isn't on but it's probably the same in private TV and indeed in other companies too. What's been pissing me off has been the twatty TV agents popping up in interviews about this in faux outrage about women's pay. As if they weren't the buggers that negotiate the pay in the first place.

it's probably the same in private TV and indeed in other companies too.

Proworse. And all the other newspapers etc gloating about it - I bet not a single one of them has sorted out their own gender pay gaps or anything, they just like giving the BBC a good kicking rather than sorting out equal pay in their own organisation. It's just so hypocritical.

Proworse? What is autocorrect on? Probably worse, it should say.

Claudia Winkleman earns more than Laura Kuenssberg That bears repeating. CW is a complete