BBC DISCRIMINATES AGAINST OLD LICENCE PAYERS.

I've recently read that the good old BBC has decided not to continue with the quiz programme "Eggheads" as it doesn't appeal to a young enough audience. I imagine they believe it's mainly watched by retired professors and the like, not by their beloved and much preferred 16-24 contingent.

Similarly, the remake of "All Creatures Great and Small" was offered to the Beeb, but rejected for the same reason, that it would not appeal to a younger generation. Consequently, the programme is now being shown on Channel 5 and "Eggheads" is to make the same move. Representatives of Channel 5 have been reported as saying that they feel it is right to ensure that older people are provided for just as much as their children.

To me, this all seems back to front. Surely it is the BBC which should be making sure that all sections of the population are served and not Channel 5 that should be picking up the pieces from the BBC's excessive 'wokeness'. Additionally, the majority of licence fee payers are older people, not members of the 16-24 generation, so how can it be right that those paying the licence are to be sacrificed in order to satisfy the supposed needs of those who do not ? We are also told that this younger generation does not value 'linear output', preferring to pick and choose what to watch on an ad hoc online basis, so why should the BBC pander to it when it comes to the normal television that the rest of us watch ?

The BBC has already been dumbed down to a point at which I and, I'm sure, many other's no longer bother with most of its dreadful output. Its desire to satisfy every minority group with a claimed grievance, shocking reliance on thousands of hours of repeats and addiction to the mind-numbing banality of soaps such as "EastEnders" and "Casualty" contrasts dramatically with its programming in days gone by. It's claimed that a small scale experiment carried out a few years ago demonstrated that people who criticise the BBC quickly discovered how valuable it once once they were deprived of its company for a few days, although this experiment covered only 70 households and there's no detail as to how representative they were of the general population. One wonders what a similar exercise on a larger scale would find today.

We can only hope that the arrival of a new Director General, Tim Davie, who probably arrived after the key decisions on "All Creatures" and "Eggheads" were made, will coincide with a more inclusive approach. After all, inclusivity seems to be one of the main watch words when it comes to every other sector of society - women, disabled, black, minority, homosexual, lesbian blah, blah - so surely older people of all varieties cannot be discriminated against either.