For fuck’s sake, is that all they can think of? Porridge was of its time with excellent scripts, actors and characters… All leading players from the series are now dead, so expect piss poor copies of McKay, Barrowclough, Godber etc… Also, a little cunt in for computer hacking in an all mod cons holiday camp modern prison is not the wide boy stuck in a shithole 70s jail, is it? Hardly the same earthiness to it really… I also don’t see how it could work…

A modern comedy in a men’s prison that will obviously be ridiculously PC and full of the token multiculti and gay characters… It’ll probably be like Mrs Brown’s Boys behind bars… Porridge was a man’s show, but this won’t be….

Nominated by: Norman

Neither John Major’s Hinton Lecture where he attacked inequality, nor Gordon Brown’s speech to the Child Poverty Action Group where he demolished the so-called “eight lies peddled by the government about poverty”, nor the exchange of letters between Cameron and the leader of Oxfordshire County Council in which the PM revealed himself to be competely out of touch with the effects of so-called “austerity” were reported on BBC TV News bulletins. Gordon Brown’s speech was reported on the BBC News website – but mischaracterised as “a veiled attack on Corbyn” even though Corbyn was not mentioned by name and the Labour party mentioned only once in a brief aside; the substance of the speech – the Tories’ “eight lies” – were not mentioned at all. Two former PMs, one Tory, one Labour (admittedly both cunts) attack government policy on the same day and the BBC doesn’t consider this at all newsworthy.

Could it be because the BBC’s Head of News is a former Murdoch editor and old habits die hard? Or could it be because the BBC dare not upset the government before the Charter renewal? Whatever the reason, this pro-government BBC is a fucking disgrace.

Nominated by: Fred West