Haven’t written about TV Licensing for a while since asking if they have run out of ideas back in March. The last few letters I’ve shredded straight away, now it’s time to confirm, yes, they have run out of ideas. Demonstrated with the latest letter:

As you’ve probably guessed this is yet another repeat. Almost to the day one year after the last 10-Day window opened another 10-Day window opens. Last year it closed on the 4th of September, this year it closes on the 3rd of September.

Same as last year I’m going to do exactly … nothing. They gave me a 10-Day window to get correctly licensed. Which I’ve been for the last 25+ years. I don’t have any form of TV Licence as I don’t need one. I don’t watch any live TV and don’t use iPlayer. Simple as that.

Now lets see if this post series will continue with some new letter or if I will only post the occasional repeat.

I’m getting a bit bored and disappointed with TV Licensing. It’s only been just over a year and just like on television they are already resorting to repeats? Really?

Back in October 2024 TV Licensing asked me “Will you be in on 30th October?“. Now they’ve sent me an essentially identical letter just changing the date to 19th March:

Come on TV Licensing, you can do better than that. Please come up with some new scary threat of made up nonsense I haven’t seen yet. Be innovative. Be creative. Give me something to look forward to. A really exciting new letter. No repeats please.

Well then, the first proper TV Licensing letter for 2025 has finally arrived. And it’s a new one. New for me that is. It’s telling me that an IN01O0 code has been issued for my address. Presumably to scare me as that sounds very official or something. A quick search tells me this isn’t really a new thing though, letters with this code (or variations of the code) seem to have been sent for years.

The rest of the letter turns out to be rather bland and boring, essentially repeating a lot of the stuff I’ve read dozens of times now. Criminal offence, fine, formal notification, interview under caution, prosecution, the usual “scary” stuff. All with a lot of ifs, coulds, maybes and the like, as after all they can’t do any of those scary things if no offence is committed. Which it isn’t, as I don’t watch any live TV.

Now let’s see what the next letter brings.

For some reason it’s dated 31 December 2024, however, as it only arrived this week I count it as the first (of probably many) TV Licensing letters of 2025. And it’s a bit bland and disappointing:

I don’t know, is that the best they can do to start the year? Are their creative writers all on holiday? No new scary threat?

All it does is rolling out the same old tropes we’ve already had several times. Only to tell me that they’ve opened an investigation. How does that work? You already opened one, I have plenty of letters telling me that already. How can you send me an “official notice” then telling me you’re doing an investigation, considering you’ve been doing that for the last year?

Are you that inefficient? Shouldn’t you be getting somewhere by now?

Well, let’s see what the next letter will bring, hopefully it will be a bit more exciting.