Bruce, if Leonard is doing his best within a difficult BBC brief why doesn't he say so and explain why things are done the way they are?

The BBC are VERY strict about producers staying within their house rules. I've got family who've worked for the beeb, and they tell me the awards are completely at odds with BBC rules (as has been pointed out in detail before).

The BBC are not clamping down only because the people who wield the power don't realise (yet) how far out of kilter with the Producers Guidelines the awards actually are.

Some minor changes to the system could effect a huge improvement all round - and a lot of good ideas have been posted here and elsewhere which would cost almost nothing but remove all of the problems. But Leonard won't make changes because HE thinks everything's hunky dory, and he simply doesn't care what we think.

Smooth Operations silence tells us all we need to know.