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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Colemans Left Hook on March 13, 2023, 02:43:16 pm

Title: BBC denies ‘political’ Wild Isles scheduling
Post by: Colemans Left Hook on March 13, 2023, 02:43:16 pm
As a spin off from my BBC foraging I came across this :-

https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/bbc/bbc-denies-political-wild-isles-scheduling/5180069.article

Broadcaster defends decision for additional episode to appear on iPlayer only

The BBC has denied that its decision not to broadcast an episode of Silverback’s upcoming David Attenborough-fronted BBC1 series Wild Isles is due to political reasons.

Wild Isles, which explores the behaviours of wildlife in the UK, will begin airing on Sunday.

When the series was announced by the BBC last year it said five episodes had been commissioned.

Today the Guardian suggested a sixth episode was not being aired over “fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the right wing press”.

However the BBC insisted that the sixth film was always intended to stand apart from the other five episodes and was never intended for linear broadcast.
Title: Re: BBC denies ‘political’ Wild Isles scheduling
Post by: SydneyRover on March 13, 2023, 09:42:37 pm
As a spin off from my BBC foraging I came across this :-

https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/bbc/bbc-denies-political-wild-isles-scheduling/5180069.article

Broadcaster defends decision for additional episode to appear on iPlayer only

The BBC has denied that its decision not to broadcast an episode of Silverback’s upcoming David Attenborough-fronted BBC1 series Wild Isles is due to political reasons.

Wild Isles, which explores the behaviours of wildlife in the UK, will begin airing on Sunday.

When the series was announced by the BBC last year it said five episodes had been commissioned.

Today the Guardian suggested a sixth episode was not being aired over “fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the right wing press”.

However the BBC insisted that the sixth film was always intended to stand apart from the other five episodes and was never intended for linear Lineker broadcast.

fixed that for you clh