BBC Programmes Should Be “Less Diverse”, Say Viewers
BBC viewers have said that programming should be “less diverse” in a nationwide audience survey billed as the corporation’s “biggest ever listening exercise”. The Telegraph has more.
The BBC was given feedback about “political correctness” and told that programming should be “less diverse on screen and on air”.
Bosses will now consider “how best to respond” to the survey, which may ultimately inform how the BBC operates in future, ahead of a decision on the renewal of its royal charter in 2027.
While not addressing the diversity question in particular, Tim Davie, the Director-General, said the corporation was “here to deliver for audiences across the UK and we will be taking everything they have told us with us as we shape the future of the BBC”.
The precise breakdown of how many viewers insisted the BBC should be less diverse is not clear, but 11% of respondents offered their views on the overall theme of “diversity, representation and inclusion”, with a cohort within it also pushing for more diversity.
While all responses are to be considered, the chances of the BBC consciously reducing on-screen diversity are slim, as numerous commitments have been made by the corporation to increase representation.
The BBC has set targets to ensure 20% of its workforce comes from a black, Asian or ethnic minority background, and for these same demographics to make up 15% of on-screen roles.
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Defund them, stop paying the BBC tax
That’s right – let market forces decide, let viewers vote with their wallets.
Next: NHS.
Bureaucracies are precisely the places where people who don’t want to face the scrutiny of the market take refuge.
Bureaucracies and NGOs, places that rely on extracting money from people by force rather than having to produce something sufficiently good that people will willingly give you money for it.
I have. Streaming and on demand for me.
The current output of the BBC: 90% trash + 10% propaganda.
Although even the trash is infused with propaganda, so maybe it’s the other way round.
Bosses will now consider “how best to respond” to the survey
Notice the phrasing: “how to respond” and not “how to meet the demands of the people who are paying for the service”. In other words the phase “how to respond” is code for “how can we carrying on serving ourselves?”.
Its all so they can claim the virtue of having listened to their customers, they never said they’d actually act on that information, just they would consider it!
They will have an episode of Panorama entitled ‘How Britain is even more racist than we thought’
But then they won’t take any notice.
That’s the deliberate loophole in the Equality Act: “positive action” where discrimination is allowed where someone thinks there is a “protected group” that is not doing so well.
This makes no sense: The members of some group of people were a victim of discrimination in the past can’t be retroactively fixed by making another group of people become victims of discrimnation from now no. This only means “more victims of discrimination.” It has no benefits for those who were originally affected,
It depends what you mean by “diverse”.
Which just goes to prove what ghastly little racists the British public still are, meaning we must double down on our efforts to educate them as we strive to make all of our programming 300% diverse by 2027.
Going into 2026, we have just cast Lenny Henry as Margaret Thatcher in a heart wrenching drama surrounding the abolition of free milk in primary schools. After a wide ranging consultation with Hope Not Hate, we have also decided to replace the milk with Creosote.
BBC will listen and respond when Pigs fly!
Likewise the Labour government will support UK nationals above migrants of whatever legal/lawful status when same Porcine creatures grow wings.
Meritocracy is not in the BBC vocabulary.
The information will just be ignored. As it does not fit the narrative they want to push.
I took part in the survey I think as I got an email about it this morning. I doubt I was complimentary.
You’ll be on a List now
That is a target that makes no sense. If 20% of its workforce and 15% of its on-screen roles are to come from a black, Asian or ethnic minority background, firstly, these proportions are unrepresentative of the ratios of ethnicities within the UK. And secondly, because it’s stipulated as black OR Asian OR ethnic minority, the full 20% might be taken up by black British, with Asians not represented at all, and still that would satisfy their criteria!
Clearly that is not happening anyway. The unfortunate logic is, in order to have as much as 20% black or ethnic minority in your workforce, it is necessary to discriminate against white British applicants.
I’m still struggling how the BBC has managed to whittle down its “celebrities” to just three “traitors”. I thought the organisation was riddled with them.
It’s not diversity to replace white actors with black ones and in the process distort our history and put out endless propaganda that British wealthy is based entirely on the evil slave trade. Where are the dramas about the battles on the high seas to end slavery on the high seas. We lost hundreds of ships and thousands of men in battles with the now ‘EU’ countries trying to keep that evil trade going. Are we going to see a dramatised biography of William Wilberforce who spent his entire life ending slavery in Britain and her colonies, eventually spending huge sums to end slavery in the West Indies and beyond. Our education system as biased as the BBC won’t teach anything about when Britain stood alone in the world to end slavery in the civilised world. The BBC would rather replace white roles to artificially create the illusion that black people built our civilisation, rather than the other way around. But when it comes to black history, according to the BBC, black people built Stonehenge, Isaac Newton was black and god knows how many others. Do you think for one split second that the BBC would put on a production… Read more »
BBC makes great documentaries and films. Perhaps they should consider concentrating on that specific department and leave all other programming to the private sector.
There are some good documentaries, but most of them are liberally sprinkled with the woke propaganda so many of us despise. They would not, for example, talk about the life cycle of the badger without bringing in some reference to climate change and habitat loss, all attributable to human activity.