Summary
As Netflix loses 200,000 subscribers, has the bubble burst for the streaming giant? Adam is joined by director, producer and filmmaker Alastair Fothergill, and Brian Steinberg, TV editor at Variety, to get their take on the platform’s future.
Also… Vicki Young gives us the latest on Partygate.
And… Cricket broadcasting legend, Jonathan Agnew, compares the PM’s fixed penalty notice and a batsman getting ‘out’ via DRS in cricket.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Cordelia Hemming and Ben Cooper. The technical producer was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, the party gate scandal has now reached the stage where it's sort of spreading out |
| 0:08.9 | into other walks of life, because Jacob Reese Morgh, the Brexit Opportunities Minister, coined |
| 0:14.7 | this metaphor for the Prime Minister's fines when he was door stepped in the street by |
| 0:19.0 | Nick Wat from Newsnight. |
| 0:20.0 | It's pretty clear that he set the rules and then broke the rules. |
| 0:25.4 | No, I think you'll miss on something that's happened. |
| 0:28.8 | The Prime Minister thought that what he was doing was within the rules and the police |
| 0:33.6 | thought otherwise, and this is just like the DRS system in cricket. |
| 0:38.4 | That sometimes the batsman in good faith thinks he's not out of it, although he sometimes |
| 0:43.4 | in the Empire thinks he's not out in good faith. |
| 0:46.0 | But it goes to the third umpire he says he was out and then the batsman accepts the |
| 0:49.8 | decision. |
| 0:50.8 | It's exactly what's happened to the Prime Minister. |
| 0:53.6 | The what? |
| 0:54.6 | The DRS system. |
| 0:55.6 | I don't know what that is, but I know a man who does Jonathan Agnew. |
| 1:00.0 | Aggers. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello. |
| 1:02.0 | Hello, the decision review system. |
| 1:03.2 | There you go. |
| 1:04.2 | Well, there we go. |
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