I think the budgets british companies have are a lot less the our cousins over the pond although we have amazing actors eg. Hugh Laurie, Tim Roth, Damien Lewis, Andrew Lincoln, Stephen Moyer, Henry Cavill and most of the Game of Thrones cast just to name a couple. With more money going into budgets of tv shows and movies we could easily compete with the American dominance

The licence fee is just that.

The licence fee does not cover just programme making it also covers Radio, World Service and a myriad of other loss makers the BBC is obliged under it's charter to provide. Sky has none of these obligations and simply produces programmes to match it's advertising and subscription revenue.

So as ever you thought you were a smart ar*e when in fact your just an ......

The best value £140 I spend every year.

I'd have to agree - wanton profligacy at the BBC aside, it's terrific value for money.

Now now Vasty

I asked a question that is all

No need to be rude

On the subject of Sky v BBC v movies. A very good friend of mine also happens to be a close friend of Terry Pratchett. Pratchett chose Sky to convert his books to the screen for the simple reason they allowed him to retain editorial control. He laughed the BBC out of the office and even refused an offer from Spielberg, simply because they wanted to bugger around with his books