Comments on: Yes, Prime Minister – If the right people don’t have power… https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/yes-prime-minister-if-the-right-people-dont-have-power/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/yes-prime-minister-if-the-right-people-dont-have-power/#comment-1092830 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:27:06 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=64466#comment-1092830 Edward_2:
I like a lot of BBC stuff.
That being said– it’s a huge propaganda machine and everyone in England has to buy a “TV license” which funds the BBC.
[“A TV Licence costs £157.50, £53 for black and white TV sets.”]
The BBC has always been the communications arm of the government, it’s like a giant perpetual Public Works Administration program, (or PBS on amphetamines with the power to tax their viewers.)

going tangential here–
After WW-2 the British imposed a foreign-film tax, of 1£ per foot of film exhibited. This was done to ostensibly support/rebuild their homegrown Studios and limit the reach of Hollywood into Britain. What it created, in part, was a lot of low-budget film (which is not inherently bad unto itself); American controlled exhibiters only featured British films if they cost less than the tax they would have to pay.

British B-Movies:
“Truly,Madly,Cheaply!”
(BBC 4 Documentary 2008)
https://youtu.be/enyYSBth2H0
1:29:12

]]> By: Edward_2 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/yes-prime-minister-if-the-right-people-dont-have-power/#comment-1092828 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 17:54:43 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=64466#comment-1092828 Laugh tracks?

I thought the BBC was more sophisticated than that.

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