http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51588 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:30:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51588#post-148437 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:14:55 +0000 nickb 148437@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And a new astronomy drama set at sea, Naval Gazing, will be commissioned. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51588#post-148414 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:09:05 +0000 Tripod 148414@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Acknowledging that the level of interest in the corporation’s cock-ups was reaching epidemic proportions - even sometimes reaching beyond the corridors of Broadcasting House itself - the BBC’s acting Director General, Tim Davie, has announced that from now on the rolling news service will “concentrate entirely on BBC-related issues”. </p> <p>News items will be interspersed with members of staff interviewing each other, in an attempt to find the guilty parties, and demonstrations of hand-wringing, soul-searching and morose introspection by some of the top-level executives. Other programmes, expanding on the BBC’s tribulations, will include <em>Who are we and what are we here for?</em>, an unflinchingly honest dissection of an organisation obsessed with itself. It will be followed in the schedules by <em>Why are we so obsessed with ourselves?</em>, a candid 24-part series which will examine, in-depth, the whole concept of navel-gazing. At four in the morning, every morning, while most people are asleep, the rolling news service will run a slide show of portraits, featuring sacked BBC staff members, accompanied by a soundtrack of a woman sobbing... </p>