if they take BBC4 away…

…then all hope is lost.

Last night – stunning documentary about the work of the wood sculptor David Nash.

Tonight – documentary on Toots Hibbert.

Inbetween, loads of interesting, intelligent stuff that is just thought-provoking and insightful, made with enthusiasm. Like random documentaries about shipping containers and their effect on globalisation.

I love BBC4.

If the Murdoch devils ever get their way and the BBC starts being dismantled, then I’d expect the 4s (Radio and BBC) to be the first to go – the antithesis of the enslavement bullshit they want us to buy into.

‘Mon the BBC!

I suspect you’re the only viewer.

I suspect you’re the only viewer.

nope, I watch BBC4 loads, and in fact listen to Radio4 loads as well. Crikey, I’m sounding a bit old. Anyway, BBC4 is ace, generally intelligent programming, and often a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of the dross out there.

I suspect you’re the only viewer.

I suspect you didn’t think about that too much.

Superb channel.

I watch BBC4, and so does my wife! 😀

The cah…

There has been loads of good music on Fridays nights too, the British reggae documentary was ace.

I like BBC4 it’s the polar opposite of itv which can only be a good thing.

They can move some of the content onto the eastenders channelBBC1. The BBC basically makes enough programming to fill two channels, spreading it across 4 is just a waste.

Scrap the whole of the bbc and do away the the tv licence.

Wish they’ scrap BBC3…have any of you watched Coming of Age?

Sweet Jesus, it makes 2 Pints of Lager look like Pan’s Labyrinth

Kuco – Member
Scrap the whole of the bbc and do away the the tv licence.

Then you end up with programs of poorer quality, which you still have to pay to watch and have to sit though loads of adverts. Hmmm.

Scrap the whole of the bbc and do away the the tv licence

and just pay £50 a month to murdoch to watch adverts.

Now, now, let’s not feed the troll.

Please tell me it’s a troll right? Noone could talk such bollocks and actually mean it…

Why a troll?

Haven’t got sky and can’t remember last time I watched bbc.

BBC4 is the most watched station at Moonter Towers. Great series currently on about scupture and stone. Its a great station, I never thought it was under threat.

No more celebrity wannabe chefs stricly dancing on ice please.

Haven’t got sky and can’t remember last time I watched bbc.

Pray tell, what do you watch?

To be honest not a lot at the moment and it be less as the nights get lighter. About the only thing on tv tonight I might watch is Alien.

Deadlydarcy you do come across as a TJ wannabe.

deadlydarcy – Member
Haven’t got sky and can’t remember last time I watched bbc.
Pray tell, what do you watch?

Pron, maybe a possibility?

Deadlydarcy you do come across as a TJ wannabe.

Am I to take that personally? TeeJ probably will (if he’s lurking out there).

Take it how you like.

I watch very little TV, but do probably watch an intersting documentary on iPlayer on average about once a month (normally after seeing a PSA thread on here!) which is from BBC4.

As above, it is the opposite for ITV, which means it is one of the few channels making anything of any intellectual worth.

I don’t think BBC 4 / Radio 4 is at real risk, as they cater to a very different audience from the ITV / Murdoch target audience.

Friday nights music shows are fantastic as said earlier Toots & the Maytals tonight.

If you take away Radio4 I will strap Paxman to my chest and run screaming into Broadcasting House, threatening to set him off.

Wish they’ scrap BBC3…have any of you watched Coming of Age?

Sweet Jesus, it makes 2 Pints of Lager look like Pan’s Labyrinth

It’s *supposed* to be for people my age (21 and younger). It’s utter garbage and could have been so much better had the producers remembered that the average IQ of someone under 25 is not in single figures.

BBC3 does Russell Howards’s Good News though. That’s surely got to be enough of a redemption.

Ok, so getting back to the OP (now that troll has been trolled), are there plans afoot to do away with BBC4?

🙄

BBC4 for the Killing, Saturday night. 9pm

Ah yes, it’s on series link. Something to look forward to on Sunday evening on our return from that London.

+1 for The Killing

Always something interesting on Beeb4. I love the random documentaries about stuff you’ve never even thought of as interesting, but they usually are.

I’m also a huge fan of Only Connect. Might just be the best quiz program ever made.

There’s a BBC4 now?

Without the BBC there would be no point to TV.

I dont watch much stuff live, but BBC4 is always the first place I look when I open iPlayer. Then BBC2.

BBC4 is always the first place I look.. Then BBC2

me too.. unles big fat gypsy weddings or shameless are on channel4..

Where I am now I can only watch 4 channels … 😡

Another fan of Only Connect here. BBC3 is only watched for Russell Howard and Family Guy

BBC4, much like Radio 4, is intelligent and thought provoking, fascinating and stimulating and just the sort of thing a broadcaster funded as the Beeb is should be doing (As well as the truly epic Natural History department of course)

BBC Three? Dross. Can that instead.

*Edit*
Move Russel Howard and Family Guy to Beeb One or Two, they’re both fun!
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Some of the Storyville stuff on there is amazing. And the quirky stuff that you think couldn’t be at all interesting. I watched a doc on cruise liners the other night – it was brilliant! And the history of the motorway thing they did – also excellent. It has shown me that documentaries are often as much about the research and delivery as they are about the subject. Witness the countless shit documenaries on Discovery about subjects which sound like they’re going to be interesting.

Some of the music sessions from the seventies are superb also – some real stripped back stuff – all about the singers and musicians and less about the stage show, vocoders, miming etc.

Thing is, if the Beeb only showed the ‘intellectually stimulating’ high-brow stuff, then they’d lose 95% of their viewers. It’s shite like Dancing on Celebrity Come and Top Gear and EastEnders what pulls in the massive viewing figures which enables them to keep their ‘public service broadcasting’ licence.

Flashy is right re BBC3. Totally unnecessary.

Scrap the whole of the bbc and do away the the tv licence.

Such an ignorant, narrow-minded totally clueless view… 🙄

To be honest I would love the chance to watch some proper tele but I seem to have lost all control over the box to the wife who insists on watching every soap and reality rubbish going…then add a little QVC into the schedule and there you have it…my personal hell.