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[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No one is more afraid of facts than right-wingers.

The BBC strongly denied this was the case and insisted the episode in question was never intended for broadcast.

Absolute bullshit. How embarrassing for the UK.

[–] dual_sport_dork 95 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Never intended for broadcast?"

So what, we just rounded up all the lads on the film crew, loaded up all the cameras and microphones and shit, got in the helicopter and flew to some remote locations and had Attenborough read the prepared script just by accident, or what? Or just for the hell of it, for a laugh?

Yeah, right.

[–] NocturnalMorning 14 points 1 year ago

"It was an intended to be an inside joke." - The BBC

[–] Womble 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC (this was months ago) the episode in question wasn't commissioned by the BBC but by a third party

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would then ask how the production was insured if a 3rd party was able to commandeer BBC personnel and equipment.

[–] Wrench 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the BBC commissions film crews to go around the world and record nature / etc. Many times, each location shot has multiple storyboards they're trying to fulfill for different documentaries.

Then, that footage is available to license to be chopped up and used in any number of projects that weren't part of the original commission.

That's why you see the same footage repackaged in very different ways over the years.

So the 3rd party commission could have just been the DA narration and some short DA film clips edited over BBC content.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No, you see, we frequently produce full scale episodes of tv series that aren’t meant for broadcast. It’s like a sports team practicing a scrimmage. Totally normal extra practice for making the real eps.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So fucking what? You're a television broadcaster. What kind of right wing backlash could you possibly receive?

[–] Tronn4 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The right wing of Britain basically runs the beeb at the moment

[–] ForgotAboutDre 7 points 1 year ago

Also the papers, the other news channels and the left wing party.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 4 points 1 year ago

But I thought the BBC was a bunch of leftist commies?

[–] FunnyUsername 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this why i haven't been able to stomach doctor who for a while, despite loving the series?

[–] CitizenKong 3 points 1 year ago

No, that was just a bad showrunner.

[–] slazer2au 45 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Fuck em, die mad, they had their chance for the last forty ish years since Reagan and Thatcher. What we got was a world of dizzying inequality, endless grift, isolation, injustice, and exclusively bullshit solutions to real problems.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Fucking snowflakes

[–] Weslee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the many reasons I don't pay for BBC anymore

[–] TheLonelyWonderer 10 points 1 year ago

That's really disappointing of the BBC.

[–] LUHG_HANI 10 points 1 year ago

Do we have the episode in the wild?

[–] Gigan 8 points 1 year ago

Most main stream media doesn't seem to care about pissing off right-wingers. I think this is so they don't piss off the corporations that are causing the destruction.

[–] PeckerBrown 6 points 1 year ago

Limp-dicks.