Excuse the pun, I'm talking about one of the BBC's SOAP opera's in
hospital, Holby City (could have been causality, they're both the
same.)

Anyway whilst I'm off topic, has the BBC gone downhill, you decide...

Holby City, A man attacks the surgeon who is going to operate on his
son, because he isn't operating fast enough. In response to him having
his femoral artery punctured with a sword, rather than call in the
police (as he's on the phone to someone who can,) the surgeon then
oversees his own operation on himself, while he's awake, just so he can
oversee the operation of the boy "to win his father's trust back".
Meanwhile, Art Malik, the anaestatist, is criticised by him, for not
telling him his daughter was pregnant, and fortunately he still
doesn't, because the guy who drugged him up for his partly
self-operation on the sword injury to his own leg's best friend is also
the illegitimate father of the surgeon's future baby. As all this is
happening, the son's diastolic pressure starts setting the critical
alarms off, but noone comes to see, and the police don't turn up.

Causality, A male nurse marries a foreigner just so she can outstay her
visa, despite loving someone else, in the hope that she'll understand
that it was an altruistic marriage and still live with him. Meanwhile a
nurse employs her son to help out in the emergency department, but
tells noone of the relationship, and then tries to cover it up when her
son spontaneously develops schizophrenia and decides to destroy all the
medical files to preserve client confidentiality. He's only the second
case of mental illness in the staff, since less than 6 months ago,
brother and sister combo kept the police investigating for months,
whilst the BBC ran a plot that the woman was killing the patients. At
no time did the BBC run a phone line for men to ring in and say, "Is
your woman violent."

So, the viewers can decide. Has drama slipped at the BBC?

And so to the lesion. (Sorry Lesson.) At the end of an episode a woman,
purely because she doesn't like him, pretends she'll have sex with a
man just to stop him from having sex with another woman he was on a
promise with. When she gets to the door, she then turns around and
says... "I had no intention of having sex with you. Fuck off waster. I
just wanted to ruin your chances, just because I think you're a cunt."
and is then promptly forced to cough up the sex she'd promised.

She was asking for it.

In another "drama" three women treated badly by a pub owner conspire to
con him out of his pub, but before doing so, they lure his adopted
daughter (who still loves him despite him causing her adopted mother's
alcoholism, and ultimately her death,) to the pub just so she can hear
him admit that he fucked the girlfriend of the son he never knew he
had, who has also been fucking his adopted daughter, and got her
pregnant, only to cause a miscarriage, to spilt his daughter and his
son up, to rub it in that his adopted daughter can't have sprogs.
Meanwhile the neighbour across the street, whose daughter he's also
fathered a child with, and despite living in the states all her life,
starts speaking with a Guildford accent three weeks after arriving in
the UK, leaves a cast iron dog in the pub, which one of the three
witches smacks him on the head with, and thinks she's killed him, but
it turns out not, because one of the other three kills him, only for
the remaining one to witness it, but not say anything when the true
murderess (and wife of the deceased) continues to pretend it was the
first one. Meanwhile, across the street, a criminal is thrown off a
bridge on the A12, just down the road from the green man roundabout,
for leaving Walford with someone's money, shortly after a conman has a
fight with him in front of hundreds of witnesses, because he was upset
at him performing a graduate style breakup of the nightclub owner's
wedding. Meanwhile, despite three women destroying a man's life and
murdering him with a blunt instrument, at no point did the BBC have a
phone number for men to ring if their woman was violent. (Unlike the
scenes where one fictional character was beaten daily by her scots
husband, and then had sex with a man she'd led on.)

I don't know about you, but this stuff happens all the time in Durham.

Has drama gone down hill at the BBC? You decide.

Don't be at all influenced by this article.

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=15681

"A former BBC head blamed women executives for making the television
service "dumb, dumb, dumb" and said they had dragged down the public
broadcaster's quality, in comments published on Friday in The Times
newspaper.

Alasdair Milne, who ran the BBC as director general from 1982 to 1987,
told the daily: "It just seems to me that the television service has
largely been run by women for the last four to five years and they
don't seem to have done a great job of work."

He described a discussion over lunch with new BBC chair Michael Grade:
"I told him I thought the programmes were terrible."

"There was no innovation; constant makeovers and far too many cookery
and gardening programmes. Dumb, dumb, dumb," he said.

"I think the BBC has to pull its socks up quite considerably."

The BBC was quick to disagree with the statement. "Michael Grade and
the BBC do not share Mr Milne's views," a spokesman
"

The BBC was quick to disagree, saying that it was working on a new real
life programme where an innovative female scheduler discovered a cure
for thrush, made from imported scot's maram grass, when she met her
long lost and unknown illegitimate daughter who was the head of a lost
tribe of Incans hiding in a quiet Welsh valley, who had unknowingly
lived in parallel with the west for hundreds of years, and had
discovered Newton's laws of motion, PKI and pot noodle, ten years
before Shakespeare wrote his great Macbeth.

Filming starts in august.



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