Re: Christmas TV
It certainly is.
Terrestrial broadcasters of today are more concerned about being supposedly representative and politically correct than they are concerned with their source of income; the public.
It is
most frequently only people of a certain age that now watch terrestrial TV because of the decline in the quality of not just the BBC's offerings but the other channels too.
My OH bought a Christmas TV mag the other day and TBH even she couldn't really say why.
We don't watch soaps or have anything that we watch on there, except
maybe for news and a few odd bits about chateaux, Sarah Beeny, Phil Spencer or similar when we can be bothered to or are generally just so minded to watch that type of broadcasting.
Which isn't very often.
For years now I have streamed mostly movies to start with and then increasingly other content.
With the continuing rise of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and more that is where as a household by far most of our viewing is done these days.
Most of it we can run through a full receiver setup into surround sound which is way more satisfying that the usual broadcast-quality stereo, just as the 4K picture quality is significantly better than the (if you're lucky) full HD broadcasts of the Beeb & ITV etc.
No wonder we've stopped watching so much of what terrestrial TV offers when, as your quote rightly suggests, the BBC and others also have absolutely no idea of what today's diverse society actually wants to watch.
It certainly isn't 20- or 30-year-old repeats of Dads Army or Porridge, no matter how funny they might be.
Even worse for them is the fact that the younger audience often never watch terrestrial TV at all, not only because of poor offerings but because their modern habit is to watch what you want to when you want to.
It's a rare thing nowadays for a family to sit down together to watch what is being broadcast, and the Beeb and others aren't doing much to tackle that particular dilemma.
So it is, sadly, only going to get worse for them.