As our politics has become a perpetual bin
fire, the wonks’ TV channel has attracted record viewers. Can it replace reality TV in the nation’s heart?
For close to two decades,
BBC Parliament has quietly chuntered away in the background, mainly appealing to a core of committed wonks. Its start was inauspicious to say the least: existing first as an audio-only channel and then, due to bandwidth restrictions, with images that took up only a quarter of the screen. As recently as last year, the channel was being threatened with funding cuts.
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