Try employing more people from Working class backgrounds, that would be a good start.
Direct-Key-8859 on
The BBC is irrelavant. Doesn’t matter who they reflect. Apart from the odd popular show like the traitors, the BBC is becoming less and less popular with the younger auidence.
LifeFeckinBrilliant on
So they’re going to insist Farridge has on his flat cap, pint in one hand, fag in the other in his future appearances on QT? 😁
urbanspaceman85 on
Start by giving working class screenwriters like me some actual fair access to the industry!!!
bloqed on
The BBC is owned and run by (historically left-leaning, depends on the climate) London-based middle classes. Deep cultural class divisions, engineered long ago and part of the fabric of society will mean this will never authentically represent white working class people (or if it does, they will always be the last to see it), but it will represent other working class people because of their appeal to the middle classes as a point of social interest.
qwerty_1965 on
There were two great eras for the working class on screen. The 60s and the 80s. Otherwise it’s been largely squeezed to the margins with special provisions for certain writers like Jimmy McGovern to get work made.
hime-633 on
Until the fact that media jobs are disproportionately filled by non working-class people is addressed – oh and steps taken to address this – ultimately nothing will change.
Otto_Sump on
Great, more reality TV and soaps as if there wasn’t already too much.
SB-121 on
That just means you’ll get middle class cosplaying shite like Eastenders.
Efficient_Morning_11 on
The only thing we do better than ‘impartiality’, is condescension.
Fit_Swordfish5248 on
This is ridiculous. I’m working class and grew up watching BBC1, 2 and eventually BBC3. In the last 10 years or so they’ve absolutely decimated the 1 thing that always drew me to the BBC, it’s programming. When they killed off top gear with Jeremy and the crew the downturn happened so quick it was unreal.
Almost overnight everything I turned to the BBC for went to shit. Programming became boring, unoriginal and so politically correct it is nearly impossible to have any comedian bar Michael MacIntyre shown live now. Anything worth watching disappears for years on end and what used to be impartial news is quite clearly following whomevers bias is sitting in the editorial chair.
It is a shell of what it was yet apparently the ‘world service’ is the best it can be. Great. The one medium that’s good we don’t get to consume. It needs to die a death in my opinion. Antiquated, out of touch and with so little ongoing *public support it’s a joke.
People only pay it now so they don’t get a knock at the door. It wouldn’t be worth it to the British public at half the current cost either.
blue199211 on
It don’t think it will happen, though I would love to be wrong about this.
GamerGuyAlly on
Can’t wait to watch someone from London play a single mother in Manchester who’s a tough no nonsense northern gal who drinks cups of tea black.
Followed by a light comedy about how funny farms are in Yorkshire, don’t have those down south do we. What a lark.
I’d love to see it, and when the BBC gets in its groove it really pushes out some top notch content. But far too often they push agenda’s rather than actual quality. They need to go back to letting real actual working class people write the scripts, not some kind of “scheme” or quota to get them 1 series. Like actually get real working class people and a pipeline to get them to submit scripts and ideas. Remove the blockers.
Tuxxxey on
Translation. We need less white people on TV and more of anyone non-white.
Sport220 on
“It also said that overall, “there appears to be less positive portrayal of white, working-class men and women in BBC output, particularly when looked at cumulatively.”
About time they noticed
seStarlet on
Cool, now make a statement on your reporting of trans people.
RecognitionOld2763 on
The most useless thing in the world is a UK institution “saying something” or “signaling something” or “warning something”. Call me back when real changes happen.
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Try employing more people from Working class backgrounds, that would be a good start.
The BBC is irrelavant. Doesn’t matter who they reflect. Apart from the odd popular show like the traitors, the BBC is becoming less and less popular with the younger auidence.
So they’re going to insist Farridge has on his flat cap, pint in one hand, fag in the other in his future appearances on QT? 😁
Start by giving working class screenwriters like me some actual fair access to the industry!!!
The BBC is owned and run by (historically left-leaning, depends on the climate) London-based middle classes. Deep cultural class divisions, engineered long ago and part of the fabric of society will mean this will never authentically represent white working class people (or if it does, they will always be the last to see it), but it will represent other working class people because of their appeal to the middle classes as a point of social interest.
There were two great eras for the working class on screen. The 60s and the 80s. Otherwise it’s been largely squeezed to the margins with special provisions for certain writers like Jimmy McGovern to get work made.
Until the fact that media jobs are disproportionately filled by non working-class people is addressed – oh and steps taken to address this – ultimately nothing will change.
Great, more reality TV and soaps as if there wasn’t already too much.
That just means you’ll get middle class cosplaying shite like Eastenders.
The only thing we do better than ‘impartiality’, is condescension.
This is ridiculous. I’m working class and grew up watching BBC1, 2 and eventually BBC3. In the last 10 years or so they’ve absolutely decimated the 1 thing that always drew me to the BBC, it’s programming. When they killed off top gear with Jeremy and the crew the downturn happened so quick it was unreal.
Almost overnight everything I turned to the BBC for went to shit. Programming became boring, unoriginal and so politically correct it is nearly impossible to have any comedian bar Michael MacIntyre shown live now. Anything worth watching disappears for years on end and what used to be impartial news is quite clearly following whomevers bias is sitting in the editorial chair.
It is a shell of what it was yet apparently the ‘world service’ is the best it can be. Great. The one medium that’s good we don’t get to consume. It needs to die a death in my opinion. Antiquated, out of touch and with so little ongoing *public support it’s a joke.
People only pay it now so they don’t get a knock at the door. It wouldn’t be worth it to the British public at half the current cost either.
It don’t think it will happen, though I would love to be wrong about this.
Can’t wait to watch someone from London play a single mother in Manchester who’s a tough no nonsense northern gal who drinks cups of tea black.
Followed by a light comedy about how funny farms are in Yorkshire, don’t have those down south do we. What a lark.
I’d love to see it, and when the BBC gets in its groove it really pushes out some top notch content. But far too often they push agenda’s rather than actual quality. They need to go back to letting real actual working class people write the scripts, not some kind of “scheme” or quota to get them 1 series. Like actually get real working class people and a pipeline to get them to submit scripts and ideas. Remove the blockers.
Translation. We need less white people on TV and more of anyone non-white.
“It also said that overall, “there appears to be less positive portrayal of white, working-class men and women in BBC output, particularly when looked at cumulatively.”
About time they noticed
Cool, now make a statement on your reporting of trans people.
The most useless thing in the world is a UK institution “saying something” or “signaling something” or “warning something”. Call me back when real changes happen.