The BBC thinks we are all morons

Not any more. Yesterday's programme consisted of mindless chit chat with the contestants' relatives about how they would be feeling, some patronising intro and lame jokes (so lame that they were met with silence in the hall) by Aled Jones and five minutes or so given over to an instrumental solo by the contestants. As for the concertos, we are clearly all too stupid and hyperactive to sit and listen to a whole piece. So the contestants simply performed an extract from their chosen piece. (They had apparently played the full piece the night before, but the BBC decided not to bother with that as it would clearly have frightened away any audience.)

We pay for this. We pay, under threat of a jail sentence, to be treated as morons. We pay to have anything remotely serious reduced to pap.

If the BBC was given charge of a three star Michelin restaurant, it would puree all the food and feed it to its customerrs through straws.