Showing posts with label 'Silent Witness'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 'Silent Witness'. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 January 2017

Not a witness, silent or otherwise



The previous post mentioned Holby City

I only watched that (or the bit that mattered) because I'd read numerous people complaining about its anti-Brexit bias elsewhere.

I'm actually rather allergic to 'serious' BBC dramas of this kind. Years back I started to find them a bit preachy. Enduring episodes of them at other people's houses only confirmed that feeling (especially a fateful episode of Judge John Deed).

But still, it has to be said that as I very rarely watch BBC dramas I'm not really able to comment on the bias found (or not found) therein. 

A commenter at Biased BBC, however, wrote this yesterday about the new levels of 'selling the message' via such BBC programmes:
I think the bias in the form of programme propaganda is now reaching epic levels. A peruse of the current schedule will make you weep. Sherlock is on about Thatcher, Silent Witness is about illegal Syrian migrants; and BBC4 has a film about an Irish cross dresser. 
As I won't be watching any of them I couldn't possibly comment.

However, I will copy and paste the BBC Media Centre's preview of that episode of Silent Witness, as it sounds exactly like the kind of thing that's kept me away from 'serious' dramas of the Holby City kind for years (which may or may not be my loss!):