Had to be said...

Strictly Come Dancing

'Strictly Come Dancing is not a dancing competition. The X Factor is not a talent contest. The Queen Vic is not a real pub, and Basil Brush isn’t actually a talking fox. They are all entertainments. Dragons’ Den isn’t real venture capitalism, and I’m a Celebrity. . . Get Me Out of Here! isn’t a real jungle or, indeed, real celebrity, and everybody there has been begging their agents to get them in it. You are all suffering from a common green-room delusion: you believe your own billing. You are not on television because you’re experts or gurus. You’re there because you’re either funny, hateful or shaggable, and if you’re in any doubt which, then it’s not the latter.

The public votes for what makes the best television. If that means dismissing a dull genius for amusing crapness, they’ll do it without thinking. Hands up anyone who remembers the name of the men’s ski-jump gold medallists the year Eddie the Eagle came last? Exactly. Who knows, who cares?'

I may even invest 10p in voting for Mr. S myself, if only to see if I can force the BBC to try rigging another 'correct' result.

Gaurdian - It's time for the last dance

Telegraph - Strictly Come Dancing: can we vote John Sergeant back in?

Telegraph - John Sergeant has quit while he is ahead

Poor old Aunty.

Can't even do bread and circuses without meddling... fouling up... and making their position even more precarious.

Indy - Strictly scandalous – Beeb short-changes viewers again

'When things go off message the BBC really can't stand it,"

In one. Shame they still seem able to fly in the face of those who pay for them whose messages they seem more and more unable to 'stand' and need to 'correct'.

Poor Aunty. The can't even do bread and circuses without cocking up, meddling, making things worse, and making their position even less secure.

Thing is, as it stands, they remain essentially unaccountable and hence immune, and hence will not change. Unless persuaded in a way that funding-addicted market rate talents might appreciate.