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Sir: I would just add one thing to Bryan Forbes's excellent article regarding the dire state of British television (I have earned the right to shout at my television', 17 November), and that is the insult to one's intelligence that is 'canned laughter'. I know what I find funny: I don't need to be cajoled. It's especially annoying when it's inserted over dialogue (which may or not be funny, one will never know). There is also, of course, the minor point that we have to pay for this drivel — when courtesy of the BBC — otherwise the bailiffs come round and break our doors down. I would happily pay proportionately for the small amount that I actually watch. Say, a tenner? I learnt at my mother's knee to always (at least attempt to) get value for money: with the BBC I am simply being ripped off.
Hugh Wain Mortimer, Berkshire
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