Episode 13 - 24 Hours In Police Custody & Nigel Farage Where Does The Money Come From?

Okay, my piece of interesting news is, did you see about Channel 4 cutting 300

and so many jobs? That's nice of them.

340 jobs.

Where were they cutting the jobs? All over the place.

I'd say the best place they can cut it is in decision-making at the top, execs, old people who have lost the plot.

This isn't an ageist thing, by the way.

That's the fucking mad thing, right? They're going to cut commissioning.

roles by 50%, so they're going to merge comedy and drama, they're going to merge factual, they're going to merge some other stuff, which is not good for anyone because basically just because you can commission drama doesn't mean that you can commission a comedy.

Just because you can commission stuff like specialist factual doesn't mean that you can then commission something that is factual entertainment.

It is mental.

I disagree.

And the reason I disagree is because I find television, I just have to turn it on and I'm laughing my fucking pants off at how dreadful it is.

Some of the stuff that gets commissioned is just like fucking laughable.

No, it is.

It is.

I completely agree with you.

But it's like, We're already on an industry low of commissions anyway, so nothing's getting commissioned.

And then you're cutting 50% of those commissioners out of the thing.

How are you going to get anything made? That's not how, how are the minnow, the smaller companies going to get stuff made? that could end up being your next studio lambert your next garden do you know what i mean all these companies started with little shows they didn't start off with traitors they started off with you know some bbc data channel 4 daytime show it's i think four in a bed was the first studio lambert show so if you've not got those barrier the barrier to entry for commissions if you're getting rid of 50 of commissioners and for anyone who doesn't know commissioners are the ones that like choose the program so you pitch to them and they come back to you and say yeah yes or no if you get rid of them what what are we making because what's going to happen is you're just going to end up making the same all the time which is sort of what's starting to happen now but You're going to make it worse if you get rid of 50%.

If you've worked in commissioning in the last three years, it's your head on a block.

That's what I think because we review a lot of stuff on here and there's so much shite.

Lucy Megan again just came out with a fantastic review of the new show Apocalypse, which we are going to do a special on next week because of the amount of budget and just how I think I've got two minutes in and I was like, I need to call Tim about this.

We need to watch this because it's fucking bollocks and it's expensive.

I mean, we're going to next week, but again, that's someone who she, she does this for a living.

She reviews TV and she's, she's basically saying it's just laughable now at how bad it's got.