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Kaffs posted:
Saint posted:

MARY BERRY has decided to quit Bake Off "out of loyalty" to the BBC

 

Mary - there is no loyalty.

If Bake Off had floundered or if you'd put a foot wrong they would have dumped you in a heartbeat.

Playing Devil's Advocate... where was BBC's loyalty when they let it go?

(I'm personally glad they didn't give Murdoch ÂĢ25m) 

Or equally, where was Love Productions' loyalty when they demanded that the BBC up their offer by at least ÂĢ10 million?

Ultimately, the BBC owes its loyalty to the license fee-payers. Now arguably they were caught in a dilemma with "Bake Off": don't pay, and they get criticized by the fans; pay, and they get criticized from everyone-else for wasting the public's money. Personally, I think they were right not to succumb to what was essentially extortion.

 

And why am I not surprised that Murdoch's got a finger in all this?

Eugene's Lair
Eugene's Lair posted:
Kaffs posted:
Saint posted:

MARY BERRY has decided to quit Bake Off "out of loyalty" to the BBC

 

Mary - there is no loyalty.

If Bake Off had floundered or if you'd put a foot wrong they would have dumped you in a heartbeat.

Playing Devil's Advocate... where was BBC's loyalty when they let it go?

(I'm personally glad they didn't give Murdoch ÂĢ25m) 

Or equally, where was Love Productions' loyalty when they demanded that the BBC up their offer by at least ÂĢ10 million?

Ultimately, the BBC owes its loyalty to the license fee-payers. Now arguably they were caught in a dilemma with "Bake Off": don't pay, and they get criticized by the fans; pay, and they get criticized from everyone-else for wasting the public's money. Personally, I think they were right not to succumb to what was essentially extortion.

 

And why am I not surprised that Murdoch's got a finger in all this?

 

Baz
Eugene's Lair posted:

Or equally, where was Love Productions' loyalty when they demanded that the BBC up their offer by at least ÂĢ10 million?

Ultimately, the BBC owes its loyalty to the license fee-payers. Now arguably they were caught in a dilemma with "Bake Off": don't pay, and they get criticized by the fans; pay, and they get criticized from everyone-else for wasting the public's money. Personally, I think they were right not to succumb to what was essentially extortion.

 

And why am I not surprised that Murdoch's got a finger in all this?

Exactly, Eugene.    I think Richard Osman's comments are the most rational I've heard    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...name=radio_and_music

 

 

Kaffs

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