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Mick Harper
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This does surprise me. I haven't taken much of an interest since I got my Queen Mother freebie (everyone in Buckingham Palace reputedly got a buckshee licence because a 'member of the household was an OAP') but I thought the furore over going to prison for not watching something nobody was watching anyway had led to some new arrangement, and the government gave the BBC some spare change to cover the shortfall.
But clearly I am going Queen Mother gaga as well. I've long suspected it as a matter of fact. My world-shattering ideas are only coming along twice a week and not daily after meals as before. Not that it's me I'm worried about. It's whether the world can cope.
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Mick Harper
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Mansfield Park (BBC4)
Essential viewing. Where else would you learn that the box seat in a barouche is the 'baggsy' one?
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Mick Harper
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Mountsfield Park (MJH 6-12)
Essential green space in the urban wasteland of south-east London for learning how to play football on grass with real jumpers for goalposts.
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Ishmael
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| Wile E. Coyote wrote: | | ...but don't like a few woke casting decisions that bring in the international streaming audience, which is what actually pays for the high production values etc. |
There is no audience brought in by woke. Ever. What it does bring in is Jewish Hedge Fund investment dollars.
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Mick Harper
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I find this explanation preposterous. In the first place, 'Jewish', 'Hedge Fund' and 'investment dollars' amounts to a bogus list. It would be a contradiction in terms to invest in something for which there is no audience.
In the second place, there is a far simpler explanation available: the creative industries are dominated by people for whom wokeness is an article of faith.
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Grant
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It's an article of faith because of the Jewish Hedge fund owners.
Why are people in the creative industries nearly always woke? They never used to be.
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Ishmael
In: Toronto
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | I find this explanation preposterous. In the first place, 'Jewish', 'Hedge Fund' and 'investment dollars' amounts to a bogus list. It would be a contradiction in terms to invest in something for which there is no audience. |
Sorry. But the evidence is overwhelming. You are simply unaware of it. None of it reaches you through the British media.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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| Grant wrote: | | It's an article of faith because of the Jewish Hedge fund owners. Why are people in the creative industries nearly always woke? They never used to be. |
They always have been. To be creative you have to be cutting edge to some extent. I don't accept the reality of 'Jewish Hedge fund owners' as a significant category but certainly wokish creatifs pre-date them.
| Ishmael wrote: | | Sorry. But the evidence is overwhelming. You are simply unaware of it. None of it reaches you through the British media. |
I watch more US news media than I do British news media. How do you explain that? Grant found out and he relies on Jackanory for his news. How do you explain that?
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Grant
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I get my news from the only honest source - X
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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Don't send me kisses in public, Grant, it's embarrassing.
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Mick Harper
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The Banshees of Inisheren (Film on Four)
This 2022 film (rated four and a half stars out of five) is set on a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland. A nice looking young feller, who lives in a cottage with his sister, goes to the pub every afternoon having moved his cows into the next field (or whatever). He always calls on an older bloke, living on his own, on the way.
One day the bloke refuses to join him, so our hero goes to the pub on his own, a bit irritated. The next day the bloke's already in the pub but refuses to sit with him. Our man is more puzzled than annoyed, but upset too. What's he done wrong?
Finally the sister beards the bloke in the pub and demands to know why he is not speaking to her brother. "He's dull," the bloke explains.
"Godshite, he's always been dull, what's changed?"
"I've changed. I haven't the time to be bothering."
"Are you dying?"
"No."
"Godshite, you live on a tiny island off the coast of Ireland, everything's dull."
Now you know what it's like for me. Except everyone thinks they're living the Life of Riley in some go-go metropolis.
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Mick Harper
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| TV execs are big fish unless they are fish out of water. |
Take Channel 5. As it's name implies it's the fifth (out of five) of the British terrestrial networks that our lords and masters have set up with 'a public service remit'. They are quite nifty, even occasionally innovatory, as befits a fifth wheel though they have always steered clear of sport. It's done to death everywhere else. Except...
When everyone else turned their noses up at it, they got the rights for the World Club Championship currently banging away in the United States of Sarkar. Channel 5 are dutifully showing all the matches live and in full. Except...
Even when a British team is playing in prime time. Nobody would dream of spending a couple of hours watching our lads playing mickey mouse matches, apart from Chelsea or Man City freaks, and they don't constitute an audience even by Channel 5 standards. Except...
Every football freak in the land would watch the highlights in a Match of the Day slot. Not just when Chelsea or City had been playing but Bayern, Real Madrid, Boca Juniors... even New Zealand amateurs for the sheer novelty. Except...
| Channel 5 have decided not to run a highlights show. | |
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