What is with this whole deranged outcry over the sale of BBC Television Centre? Sure, a lot of historical things have happened in TVC, but then lots of historical things have happened in Belgium and nobody is suggesting we save that.
It's a bloody awful building. It's a dank, airless, soulless, confusing, labyrithine, bureaucratic monstrosity. Not for nothing was it Terry Gilliam's model for the Ministry of Information in his epic Brazil (see below). It's brilliant that they are finally shipping the appalling wreck on, and the sooner they light a fire under it and raze it to the ground, the better.
This is really weird. It's footage from the 1950s showing the construction of TVC "... it was considered that the staff might like to see a selection of the material which is being retained for record purposes." What's with the Dr Who soundtrack?
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Usually, Mrs Anonymous only breaks in on my morning routine to tell me that someone important has just died... Mother Teresa, Osama bin Laden, the voice of Zippy and Bungle. But this morning, she burst into the en-suite (!) and said, "they've put a 'For Sale' sign up on BBC TVC." No, she never visited it. I did. When I was mockingly interviewed as a "Desserts Analyst" on BBC 24 News. I also had the displeasure of eating in the BBC canteen, while simultaneously giving a piece to camera on the state of the UK desserts market. They had me eat jelly while I was doing it. Try to not look nervous with a piled high with jelly spoon is floating in front of your face while you talk volumes and values to someone who only wants to know if the British spotted dick is dying.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, TVC should be closed down. It's horrid. But that's not the same as thinking the Beeb needs to move north.
Wembley should have moved North. The Beeb should stay in London.
Buildings get replaced, their usage changes. All fine. Wembley is a building. TVC is a building. Matches can be played anywhere, but talent is where talent is. The Beeb's just shot itself in the foot by kowtowing to the Murdoch brigade. Fucking disaster. It would be better to stay in that shit building with all the shiny talent, than move to a shiny building with shit talent.
I can't believe the halfwits who have been piping up saying it's a national institution, it's a symbol of the BBC blah blah blah.
ReplyDeleteIt's a fucking horrid building and impossible to find any room without the help of Theseus himself. And a shithole to boot.
Most of the BBC are already in that nice building up the road. For anyone who would miss the shithole, then Manchester awaits, you'll feel at home there.
Genius comments. I have laughed heartily.
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