But apart from all of that, what have the BBC ever done for me?
Monty Python, Absolutely Fabulous...
And of course there's BBC Films who are committed to making films that the big studios probably wouldn't bother with because they don't have loads bangy-crashy CGI effects. A few:
The Lady in the Van, London Road, A Cock & Bull Story, A Room for Romeo Brass, A United Kingdom, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, An Education, Anita & Me, Billy Elliot, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Brideshead Revisited, Brooklyn, City of Tiny Lights, Coriolanus, Creation, The Damned United, David Brent: Life on the Road, Dirty Pretty Things, The Duchess, The Falling, Far from the Madding Crowd, Fish Tank, FLorence Foster Jenkins, Glastonbury, Good Vibrations, Great Expectations, Hideous Kinky, The History Boys, I Daniel Blake, In Our Name, In the Loop, Iris, iLL Manors, Jane Eyre, Jawbone... I'll pass over a few letters ...The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Meerkats, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Sense of an Ending, Truly Madly Deeply, The Van...
And so on...
The BBC Academy runs skills development and training courses for a huge range of media careers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/academyAlso: People Just Do Nothing is brilliant if you've never seen it. An interview with the writer on BBC Writer's Room, which supports writers at all stages of their career.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/There's also an interview with the lead writer of 'five by five' which was a series of shorts made under #TheIdrisTakeover
All of this would disappear without the licence fee.
