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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/steviefaux on 2024-09-19 08:47:11+00:00.

Jay Blade. Probably not known to people outside of the UK. Made a great show The Repair Shop. Now he’s been accused of a crime (yet not found guility yet), the papers, of which I try and avoid reading especially the Daily Mirror, all keep falsely saying “His shows are or have been removed from streaming services”. Why? He hasn’t been found guilty yet. The BBC has no spine and are now claiming they won’t air new episodes he appears in. So its guilty until proven innocent.

Anyway. I’ve already backed up that show and again, this shitty Mirror article

Claims “David & Jay’s Touring Toolshed” has also been removed from streaming, but it hasn’t, its still on iplayer.

Even if found guilty, the show, The Repair Shop has become so popular, it can’t be chopped up due to the one bad apple. There are plenty of other craft folk on the show that have done good work.

I don’t mind paying the TV license (as I don’t want adverts with the BBC), although I guess it should just go to a subscription model now so people who don’t want to pay don’t have to. However, it annoys me that shows like The Repair Shop are allowed to die. We’ve lost pretty much all the old episodes of Flog It because the BBC just won’t stream them. Yet Channel 4, stream a large chunck of their old shows so why can’t the BBC. Same with Antiques Roadshow, I started to back those up because a lot of the old episodes from the early years are gone. Someone has a large chunk, or they did, on YouTube of some 90s episodes but really the BBC should stream them, themselves.