Oh dear

. The other day in the 'Anton making racist comment' thread, I said that the press were out to tarnish SCD this year with the press moving on to different damaging stories every week or so. This 'celeb fees' story is the next one. Stories so far;
-Arlene being axed
-Alesha being hired
-One show format
-Clash with X Factor
-2+hrs running time
-Anton Du Beke's "racist" comment
-Brucie wading in on the above row
-Fee's payed to celebrities.
It's all to make SCD/BBC look bad, and to make ITV/X Factor look brilliant.
With regards to this celeb fees story, personally, I couldn't care less about how much the beeb spend on their programmes/chaneels. I hate sports, but the beeb spends hundreds of millions every year on sports and sports related shows. I don't like Radio 1 or Radio 3 or Radio 4, but the beeb spend millions on those stations. You've got to spend money to make decent shows, if the beeb spent a pittance on their shows, people would complain about that. Specifically with strictly, it is one of their biggest shows and is the most succesfully exported format ever. To me, this justifies the budget for SCD.
You've gotta love the press in this country
