But they'll save a few bob on documentaries about drunks and drug heads, so that's something! The BBC is fast losing direction and public support. What used to be our favourite aunt is now an elderly demented spinster. I can't understand the accents of people introducing the shows anymore. It used to be in a clear English accent that everyone in the world could follow. Now it's all ecky thump and hoots, mon. Ridiculous.
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ROFL, maybe you should stop watching BBC Scotland.
Really though, Daily Mail readers and the DM itself hate the BBC. They hate how unbiased it strives to be. Cept when they show something like Life on Mars of course, lol.
That's because they are speaking ENGLISH. I suggest Rollo Tomasi learns the language.
Because last time I checked the BBC does not have a Jamaican news reader.
Oh granted if Lenny Henry or any other Nigerian person is on TV they will do the accent (Nigerian Accents = Hilarity) but its mainly for laughs.
I think the main complaint is "I say! That BBC has started showing real english accents, I can't understand a word that those people from "up north" say. This Coronation Street malarky is too complicated! I must go back to the wireless and the Archers with it's countriside lifestyle and non threatening queen's english rather than a regional accent!"
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Funny story: A few years ago, one of my local public broadcasting stations began to show a delightful British sitcom called Porridge , which featured a variety of different accents, many of which I found to be initially bewildering (quite apart from the various cultural references that flew over my head). I was lucky to catch one word out of every five from some of the characters' mouths, particularly that of the protagonist. However, I stuck with the show; I'd concentrate and listen as intently as I could, and by the time PBS stopped showing it, I didn't have nearly as much trouble.
The moral of the story: "Trouble" with accents isn't all the much trouble at all...if you're willing to try.
Ecky thump? Jack White is introducing shows on the BBC!?
A request to Brits for clarification, please. Is the Daily Mail a Rupert Murdoch rag?
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You'll get use to it. On the average night in Australia, I tune into four shows in a row and, more often than not, the accents jump from Aussie, to British, to American, then back to Aussie. It's reached a point where I rarely even notice the changes.
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