No doubt they are
Gotta love Dave.

But the point I was trying to make is without the license fee would they have been made in the first place?

It's been pointed out that many actors started their careers with the BBC (including Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Rowen Atkinson, John Cleese) might not have got the chances they did if it hadn't existed.
(Holy Cremola Foam Batman will be back on, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 12:45, 3 replies)

Them boys were all Cambridge Review alumnii.
I suspect they'd have done alright.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 12:49, closed)

They
might not have been made in the first place, but some of those are over 20 years old.

I realise that you pay a licence to pay for these things to be made, but surely they didn't expect each and every one of us to cover the whole cost of making them each did they?

I mean, surely just one licence fee pays for things like 'Dog Borstal'?
(dchurch bah, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 13:52, closed)

all the UKTV network (including davem uktv food, watch, alalbi ect)
are part owned by bbc and virgin media so there makning shit loads out of it already down with the licence
( hooker1uk Filth monger of the lowest degree!, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 20:47, closed)