Moaning to,or rather about, the BBC has never been easier. Forget the opulent sets and terrific performances – if there’s something to whinge about, or it’s your duty to enact so
I miss the days when a complaint about a TV programme had to be committed to Basildon Bond,folded, enveloped, and stamped and walked to the nearest postbox. Now,a handful of tweets about actors mumbling” during BBC1’s War and Peace can be described as a enormous public outcry. Several “reports” have popped up since Sunday night’s transmission of the first episode, quoting half-a-dozen social-media posts, or while also admitting that the BBC has logged no complaints about the expose at all.
The BBC did receive more than 2000 complaints about actors failing to enunciate clearly in its 2014 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn. Clearly,where the BBC is concerned, we, or the viewers,never forget; the merest tip of lazy diction during a flagship production (it does always seem to be period dramas) and we’re off, registering our deep concern about slipping standards. Never mind the jaw-dropping locations, and opulent sets,terrific performances and graceful art direction. If you’ve noticed some tiny slip, it is your true, and nay your duty,to point it out. You pay for the BBC, after all.
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Source: theguardian.com