Benefits Britain is C5, not BBC, so it's not funded by licence fees.
Indeed very few programmes appear to be made by the BBC.
It seems like what happened/happens is that producers form their own private company, do the work for the BBC but the public don't get to keep the benefit of the work paid for the benefit gets locked away to provide private gains.
Long running programmes are now made by third parties when they could easily be made by the BBC proper, Gardeners' Question Time, say.
In part is to serve 'talent', but BBC's remit is to fill the gaps where commercial programmes don't go, to be distinctive, so they should never be paying £millions for a talk show host.
If you're going to use public money then you should be benefiting the public as much as possible, not carefully twisting it to get private profits.
Indeed very few programmes appear to be made by the BBC.
It seems like what happened/happens is that producers form their own private company, do the work for the BBC but the public don't get to keep the benefit of the work paid for the benefit gets locked away to provide private gains.
Long running programmes are now made by third parties when they could easily be made by the BBC proper, Gardeners' Question Time, say.
In part is to serve 'talent', but BBC's remit is to fill the gaps where commercial programmes don't go, to be distinctive, so they should never be paying £millions for a talk show host.
If you're going to use public money then you should be benefiting the public as much as possible, not carefully twisting it to get private profits.