Never mind Ingurlund v ITALY, is it BBC or ITV for you ?

[The Bloop]

ITVs annual income is about £2bn. The BBCs annual income is about £5bn, which includes £3.5bn from the licence fee.

A few years ago I was speaking to a tv producer. He's worked on both channels. At the time the BBC's budget for an hour of tv drama was circa £1m. For ITV it was between £700k and £800k and that's not because an hour or TV on ITV is about 48 minutes. The the difference in quality of production is easy to see.