BAFTA’s Campaign to Transform Every TV Show into Unwatchable Climate Propaganda Has Stepped Up a Gear
British television grows more and more unwatchable with each passing day. If you’re lucky enough to live in Asia or Africa, however, you will have the opportunity of watching a far more captivating new exported drama serial made by Chinese State TV, about how much the benign Chinese Communist Party has improved your entire country, your whole life and that of your livestock with its wonderful, environmentally-friendly policies. Happiness Juncao tells the admirable tale of Chinese scientist Lin Zhanxi, a.k.a. the ‘father of Juncao’, Juncao being a ground-breaking novel method of mushroom-cultivation, whose name apparently means ‘fungi and grass’.
According to a glowing write-up in Chinese outlet Global Times:
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We no longer watch ANY live tv channels. They are so awful and woke. So called comedy is sanatised to death. News is not news any more, just brainwashing and political doctrine.
Even cinema films are now not worth the money. The upside is we read more, my wife is heavily into making fabulous crochet blankets and knitting her own jumpers. We do a crossword or two together every day, play scrabble. Sit in our spa and look at the stars late evening. Life is wasted staring at a screen that just bores you to death.
We dont have a Spar, and I boycott the local Co-Op because it blacklists Israel. Don’t get many stars in our CostCutter.
likewise Marks and Spencer for its support of transvestite men feeling up young girls
OMG, if that’s the alternative, shoot me now
with pleasure….I’m 78 so I don’t care.
As a teenager in the 60’s, I loved big motorbikes. Bought a brand new 650 Triumph whilst working on the Nuclear submarine refueling base at Chatham dockyard. In my twenties i was into sea angling, and owned 4 boats over a period of years. Spent 35 years driving heavy artics, and then became a transport manager for a few years. Two years ago I retired from sea kayak fishing. Loved kayaking. Did it for 16 years. So you see, I’ve done a bit in my life, how about you? I’m quite happy walking my dog across the East Sussex countryside, looking after a big garden, and growing lots of fruit and vegetables.
Tell us all about your fascinating life.
Good for you. That sounds an awful lot better than your original description of your lives together. It was the crochet blankets that filled me with horror.
I’m 76, similar age to you. I still work part time for a local garage, have a son & daughter and four grandchildren. I love my garden and tend both mine and my neighbour’s. I play bridge a couple of times a week, trained as counsellor a while ago. I like to holiday in Malta. I also like reading and doing DT puzzles each morning to keep my mind sharp & agile. I love soul music and dancing.
I’ve visited every continent but there’s no place like home.
Organising a family gathering today, my greatest joy is to have them all come to my house.
Good for you. That sounds an awful lot better than your original description of your lives together. It was the crochet blankets that filled me with horror. I’m 76, similar age to you. I still work part time for a local garage, have a son & daughter and four grandchildren. I love my garden and tend both mine and my neighbour’s. I play bridge a couple of times a week, trained as counsellor a while ago. I like to holiday in Malta. I also like reading and doing DT puzzles each morning to keep my mind sharp & agile. I love soul music and dancing. In my younger days, I loved travelling up to Newcastle alone from the age of 8 on the Pullman train to visit my grandparents. I love Northumberland, the county that has it all, amazing coastline, castles, beautiful countryside, Holy Island and vibrant city life. I’ve visited every continent but there’s no place like home. Highlights of my travels: going round the rain forest on the back of a Harley Davidson driven by a hairy biker, dinner under the stars in the desert, visiting Uluru at dusk and dawn, going to the Buena Vista Social Club… Read more »
You are basically right, although some of the classic comedies are still brilliant, after so many years.
My wife and I watched an episode of Rising Damp yesterday evening (the one with the snake on the loose) and I thought it was hilarious.
But yeah, these days we’ve got YouTube and I can choose what I watch instead of being fed propaganda.
By the way, I was born in communist Eastern Europe and TV was exactly like the BBC, agitprop everywhere.
I visited my brother who has a tv licence, I was unfortunate enough to see an episode of Emmerdale (I remember when it was a lunch time show, focused on a small farming community), it was incredible, a 40 something Grandmother who was trying to be a surrogate for her 21 year old Grandaughter, who wasn’t married to the current boyfriend, all the characters were involved in some sort of drama, and thus arguments, the words “it triggers her”, the mandatory gay theme, the bloke who had slept with another woman not his girlfriend, the mandatory Lesbian kiss, and the kid going out with a teenage drug dealer. all in one episode.For me it admirably demonstrated how our elites view the public as the awful people portrayed in Emmerdale, an everyday story about country folk makes the British public appear as everything short of a terrorist. Then the News on BBC, I had to walk out of the room at the headlines. Having not seen “normal tv” since the first propaganda stories around covid, I have to say I was truly shocked at the level of propaganda and the sheer effluent quality of the programmes and news. No wonder we… Read more »
May cause? It certainly already has caused a decline in the mental state of the nation.
Why not have a plane crash on the village?…oh, hang on a minute 🤔
Brilliant comment btw 👏
Very well put, splendid comment!
Great comment.
Yep, it’s exactly like that.
Every storyline has to have a message.
Again, it’s a Marxist-Leninist idea: the purpose of the arts is not to entertain but to educate the stupid masses so that after a while those bastards learn to believe in the salvation offered by the revolutionary leaders.
Nazi Germany did something similar in the 1030s with its portrayal of Jewish people – showing them in the worst possible and inhuman way. I was reminded of this Nazi propaganda when I went to a photographic exhibition at the Barbican – the theme was how foreign photographers view the British. It showed the British as a collection of terrible caricatures from the lowest to highest class. Why do this?
“I visited my brother who has a tv licence …”
Fortunately, I interpreted that as a trigger warning …. 🙂
We gave up the TV for good on 25th March 2020 when I could not stand with the 3 stooges in Westminster and the female ‘crone’ in Edinburgh telling us what to do. Not missed it for one second and when we did have an opportunity to watch a TV when on holiday recently, we were appalled at how it had deteriorated. The whole Net Zero debacle is still not understood by the electorate and it will be led by the nose to an inevitable and costly disaster.
By the way, does Steven Tucker have to write articles which are 2 or 3 times longer than anyone else’s. You can spot one a mile away and I frequently find myself turning to his summary before I wilt under the torrent of words.
Climate Change moved away from being about science many years ago. Scientists are listened to not based on facts or accuracy but on alignment with the Political Agenda. All of our institutions have joined together to present this goal of saving the planet that is not to be questioned. We now live in a world where we must comply or be ostracised and silenced. The climate change grift is a great one because no person is able to see or verify any of the claims. Along comes the Political Class to solve the alleged problem that never gets solved, and more and more money is chucked at it, and more and more regulations and mandates are created. All that really happens is that government gain more control and power. No matter if targets are reached or predictions fail, the answer is always more and more of the same draconian and authoritarian pretend to save the planet diktats. We now have Carbon Credits and Trading Schemes ESG (Environmental and Social Governance) scores tracking what we do. The scam works because it is wrapped in morally urgent language about the planet where the targets to be achieved keep getting moved further into… Read more »
Couldn’t agree more. The general public seem to have relinquished any form of critical thinking in favour of blind obedience. Time to wake up.
Yep
‘More and more unwatchable …’
Amen.
I haven’t watched live TV broadcasts for over 10 years now.
Instead, I have a huge collection of favourite series on disc, bought cheap on eBay. This is complimented by a Freesat box and Amazon. With YouTube, it provides my entertainment and documentary needs.
Grandad was a founder member of the BBC in 1921. I never watch it.
News is garnered from a carefully selected and frequently updated collection of sources, none of which are MSM.
Every morning I trawl my Israel sources, next is DS, ‘Not a lot of people know that’, then YouTube.
If such a thing as man made climate Armageddon exists due to CO2 emissions, could we have a story line about characters switching off streaming and use of the internet, as this is one gf the main reasons for CO2 emissions?
If man made climate Armageddon occurs, it won’t be due to Carbon Dioxide emissions.
We only watch old shows now, Jim Bergerac never mention “The Message” at all. The old Bergerac, not that new rubbish one!
Soap operas should reflect real life. Every character should “worry about my carbon footprint” and drive a Chelsea tractor.
BAFTA albert is a thoroughly unpleasant organisation that is both underhand and Orwellian. Its painfully conventional warmist messaging is, as one would expect, absurdly contradictory. How can anyone with more than two brain cells think it’s worth encouraging the use of second hand clothes while at the same time encouraging people to buy new electric cars; just ridiculous.
l have known about the organisation for some years now and utterly despise it. The answer Ofcom gave Toby on his previous complaint is of course dishonest in that even if some (not me) might maintain that the science of global warming is settled, the separate issue of the policies that governments should follow in response to that science is not. I wonder whether it might be worth complaining again now that Reform has seats in Parliament.
l do think BAFTA albert operates rather under the radar at present and that it’s ghastliness deserves to be more widely known.
‘Love thy neighbour’ was one of my favourite sitcoms during my childhood, it was so far ahead of its time a bit like ’till death us do part’ showing the absolute stupidity of racism in a totally exaggerated way, comedy genius!
If you don’t agree with this stuff and want to change it, just start a party that is against it, get enough support to get into power and then change ti all.
And if that doesn’t happen, it’s because everyone is in favour.
That’s what NPCs will tell you.
But actually, that’s how our democracy works, He who brainwashes the population better wins.
It’s not just UK TV, and it’s not just climate. I have enjoyed two TV series based on Michael Connelly books: Bosch (Amazon Prime) and Lincoln Laywer (Netfix), so I was pleased to see a new series of Ballard, also based on Conelly’s books, being shown on Prime; however, the show is so full of left-wing tropes that I began to lose sight of the actual story lines. Apart from cameo appearances from “Bosch” and Ballard’s superior officer, and the heroine’s boyfriend, there isn’t a normal, inoffensive, heterosexual male in the whole series, and the plot points all have to do with police corruption and brutality, white male sexual predators (although one such does have hints of Latino-ness), downtrodden ethnic minorities striving to improve their lot, proud black fighters-for-justice, #metoo moments, and more. I don’t deny that these things all exist, but the majority of white people are good, decent people, and some balance is appropriate. It would be good if viewers could accept this as a fictional work about a non-existent fantasy world (as it is), but it is more likely that the average viewer will accept all this as representative of the real world. Left-wing propaganda is pervasive… Read more »
anything before 2010 is mostly ok. I don’t watch any modern films or shows. As I don’t feel the need to be dictated to.
Just another of the many, many, many reasons I watch no TV whatsoever.
I have noticed for some time how TV programmes, fiction, documentaries, News reports just happen by absolute chance to show those idols of Climatism, windmills, in the background.
I half-expect to see them in period shows like Downton Abbey or Wolf Hall, both of which surely should have solar panels on their roofs.
Below is a graph showing the consistent and relentless improvement in aviation safety beginning in the 1930s. This was not achieved through narrative, or by nudge units, or propaganda, or coercion, or even regulation. It was achieved through pilots and engineers freely sharing, distilling and recording their experiences, good and bad, and through the diligence of aviation accident investigators scientifically getting to the truth of any accident. This has created a solid, consistent and reliable body of knowledge on how to fly safely and how to avoid situations that will kill you. There was a convention in the early 1940s to discuss how to improve airline safety and yet pilots and engineers had already reduced deaths per flight by two thirds, without the involvement of any experts. In fact the only experts in this discipline are the pilots and engineers themselves. For good measure I have included a survey that was intended to determine the difference in attitudes between health professionals and pilots to 5 questions, with the intention of seeing how medicine can learn from aviation. The Climate ‘Science’ is so far away from the type of thinking prevalent in aviation and engineering. The Solomon Asch Conformity experiment showed… Read more »
Those pilots and engineers had two options, either go with the flow, or tell the truth. One option also improved their survival rate.
Today, it’s easier to take a third way: just don’t go into that industry. I avoided Car Manufacturing, following the strikes against changing working practices (in the 60s to 70s), and Nuclear Power, when I realised just how much it was a part of the State. And so, in the mid-70s, I settled on the Oil Industry, especially as North Sea Oil was booming.
There was no way could governments destroy such a wealth creating industry, could they? 🙂
Here’s what those seeking the Truth have to endure:
Angry Outbursts, But No Facts–The Climate Alarmists’ Playbookhttps://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/08/09/angry-outbursts-but-no-facts-the-climate-alarmists-playbook
Its not just the climate scam, they are also pushing the diversity agenda non stop.
Father Brown, set in a village during the 1950’s, has more non white faces, than my own village has today.
Very strange, watched an episode of Miss Marple, set in a similar time, made in the 1980’s, not a non white person to be seen,as it was back then.
This woke agenda needs to stop, they cannot rewrite fact
They can rewrite facts, and they’re doing it. I complained to the BBC, about 8 years ago, regarding Dan Snow’s history docu-drama called “1066: a year to conquer England.” One of the “Norman” Knights featured in the programme (a named character from history) was a black man. He twirled his cape most beautifully and stomped around with a firm face, but the FACT is that the Norman Knight in question was of north European origin and most definitely was not a black man.
The BBC noted my objection to this distortion of history and FACT, but said they had no intention of changing their policy of distorting history to the watching public.
I haven’t watched the BBC since.
The best policy is to just switch it off.
If you don’t watch, you can’t be brainwashed.
I tend to stick to YouTube these days and choose what I watch. I also select carefully from Netflix and Amazon Prime and I have recently discovered “Walter Presents” on Channel Four’s site …. foreign productions with subtitles (which doesn’t bother me in the slightest).
I’m currently working through a series called Badehotellet (a Danish production) about a seaside hotel in the years between WW1 and WW2 … a lovely, gentle production with fabulous characters and no “woke” messaging whatsoever.
Select what you watch carefully …. and use the off switch.
Walter Presents is a gold mine of great series and I have watched most of Badehotellet. And you can learn things too as in the Pale Mountains I had no idea there had been terrorism in the German/Italian Sud Tirol region of Italy based on language. I can recommmend La Porta Rosso.