BBC have killed another of their successful programmes, high time the license fee was scrapped and they were made commercial. TG was the only show I watched on the beeb everything else is better through the commercial channels now. We saw the same death of a programme with Have I Got News For You which just hasn't been the same since Angus Deatons departture.
Don't get me wrong Clarkson was in the worng over the scuffle however it panned out in reality.
Notwithstanding all the "rights" and "wrongs" aired in this thread, with which I'm generally in agreement, please be careful what you wish for.
I appreciate that the commercial channels available in the UK are of good quality and may be considered as good as if not better than the beeb, here in Romania, there are only commercial channels, and they are all sh!te. All, and I don't know how many, maybe 60 available on our box, but not one of them is worth the electricity.
The only thing worth watching is the usual Discovery stuff and BBC repeats on certain channels, and of course the movie channels.
The problem is, there's nothing contemporary on TV here, the news is selected and usually contains nothing in terms of current affairs.
Please think twice before casting the beeb aside, encourage better value for money, or whatever other means to keep it running, once gone, it's gone forever.