Loose women conspiracy

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Does anyone else find it a bit strange that they just disappeared off air and are still not back?
They say it’s due to budget cuts and stick on a load of game show repeats. It’s a P take, can’t believe we pay a tv licence for this

When are they back? Barely watching itv now

What's the conspiracy?

Was it on to distract us from global warming?

You'd still need a TV license.

And you are paying a licence fee to fund the BBC (who then make you pay for it to watch live TV).

But you are required to have a TV licence to watch ITV

No you wouldn’t if it’s not live.

You don't have to pay for a licence fee for any catchup TV apart from BBC iPlayer - but you obviously do still have to pay for your Internet connection and any data costs.

A lot of people who enjoy daytime TV are elderly, and they are the specific demographic which includes a lot of people who are either not online or are, but aren't fully savvy/comfortable about using it as freely as a digital-native younger person might be. If the only thing you ever want to watch is Countdown - at the regular time, as you're used to - you've still got to pay the BBC.

Again, no.

Yes you do. You need a TV license to watch catch up TV.

No, you don't unless it's on the BBC's platform.

Surely it is a cheap programme to make. It's just women in a studio talking.

You are wrong.

Yeah but they were probably worried about the viewers’ IQ falling

Even on this thread, it's clear that there's widespread confusion about what a TV licence is and isn't needed for.

Plenty of people - probably most of them elderly and not online - will be paying for a TV licence that they 100% don't actually need; but the threatening and harassing letters will have scared them into paying anyway.

Yes for BBC iplayer so not just live TV.

It really is a ridiculous concept and needs to disappear!

It is not just for live TV.

It only covers catch-up TV if you're watching iPlayer. You can watch catch-up on other channels without a licence. Seriously, just look it up.

Correct, its for live TV, and BBC. So loose women on catch up is fine

Yes but it’s nothing a 2 second google won’t solve, and it’s not complicated. You need a licence for live tv, or iPlayer. Not other catch up services.

This never happened before the small boats started arriving.

Clearly a distraction technique to get people riled up so they stop talking about asylum seekers using vaccines to poison our badgers.

Well, I miss it

There used to be good programmes on in the daytime. Dramas, movies, comedy, sports etc. What happened? Why is everything on TV nowadays just people talking?

Again, ITV, and therefore Loose Women are not funded by the License fee.

Studio productions cost far more than people often realise. It's way more involved than just focusing a camera on a few people sitting behind a desk.

Even with gameshows, the original recording costs a load - far more than the prize money, even the big jackpot ones. It's just that, once recorded, they can show them again and again and again for years and even decades, unlike a show discussing current affairs.

If anybody is familiar with the infamous 'Turkey Bob' episode of Family Fortunes (it's on YouTube!), Bob's wife was so mortified by his 'performance' that she offered then-producer William G Stewart £100 in return for not showing the episode. He refused, telling her that the cost of producing that episode alone had been £38,000 - and that was over 40 years ago!

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Most people enjoy it? In your survey of one?

Most people believe it's superficial, lowest common denominator drivel. That's why they're not watching it, which is why it has been pulled as ITV is dependent on advertising revenue, NOT the TV license.