Over the last few weeks
and months I've been watching "Terra
Nova". It was really good, but still no decision has
been made about the future of the show. Will it be cancelled? The
jury is still out. And I've also been watching the re-imagined
"Charlie's
Angels": an entertaining show, but cancelled.
Last night I watched the
latest David Jason comedy - "The
Royal Bodyguard". Amazed with how bad the show was, it
was promptly followed by "Mrs
Brown's Boys" which was dreadful. These programs really
sum up what is wrong with the entire concept of the BBC. With decent
and watch-able telly programmes being cancelled, the "unique"
funding of the BBC allows them to make absolute drivel when
commercial companies struggle to keep good shows going.
After ten minutes I gave
up, changed the channel and watched "Man vs Food".
It was whilst on the Good Food Network that I saw an advert which
made me think - the novels of Agatha Christie are being knocked
out in newsagents at the moment. Starting with an introductory
offer of two quid, subsequent books are a fiver each. When you bear
in mind that after two minutes on Google you can download Christie's
novels for free, I can't help but wonder why people pay good money
for books.
I wonder if the days of
the professional author are numbered: there are so many people who
have published books in e-format that are available for free, and
there are so many books that are out of copyright that are available
for free. I've got weeks (probably months) of reading loaded
onto my Kindle that I've downloaded for free. Why should I shell out
good money when authors aren't asking for it?
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