By Alisha Rouse For The Daily Mail
Published: 23:07 BST, 21 April 2019 | Updated: 23:09 BST, 21 April 2019
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The BBC's reliance on bland cooking shows, tired quizzes and low-brow comedies is putting its future at risk, a former executive claims.
As rivals such as Netflix innovate and flourish, the BBC is becoming marginalised and struggles to justify its licence fee, argued Roger Mosey.
Recent entertainment shows have attracted 'terrible reviews and awful ratings', he said, adding: 'It is hard to imagine that the nation would be the poorer if some of the corporation's current broadcast offerings were lost.'
He described one recent programme – For Facts Sake, featuring Mrs Brown's Boys star Brendan O'Carroll – as an 'indefensible commission' and said viewers deserved more.
Roger Mosey, a former BBC executive, hit out at 'tired quizzes' of which he included Pointless (Presenter Alexander Armstrong pictured on set)
'The quiz show Pointless often runs seven days a week,' he noted. 'Is this really what we want for our money?'
Mr Mosey said: 'There is a sense that, having cried wolf for many decades, Auntie Beeb really is now
