re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I have noticed a general decline in the quality of British TV since I first started watching it (in the mid 90’s) I used to be able to almost always find something interesting, but the last time I was there we had a satellite dish with hundreds of channels and it was all dreck.

Jeff Rose, the host of that two part series on the Bible, really makes some sweeping statements that, because they are grossly over broad, become false.

It’s something I might expect from an American show - well, American TV on the whole does not run series critical of the Bible, rather, American TV is filled with Bible-believing reinforcement programming.

This gets me back to DWTS (how does everything seem to come back to DWTS?) It’s the Americanized version of the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. SCD is slowly changing, and some of the die hard fans are decrying the Americanization of the show.

The BBC has been under attack for some time, with various parties pushing to sell it, etc. So I guess the administrators realize they have to keep their ratings up somehow, and stodgy old programs full of academic debate won’t do it. The BBC production values are still among the best anywhere and on the whole I think they produce a large amount of decent programming, but this thing with major documentaries and the path they are taking leads me to believe that the once high-water-mark academic aspirations of the BBC are gone.