Live at the Apollo cancelled in row over light bulbs

The BBC said today that it had to cancel "Live at the Apollo" for budgetary reasons. Apart from requiring both a camera and a stage light the "Live At the Apollo" logo contained a dazzling number of electric lightbulbs which collectively had become simply too expensive to turn on. Some of them, according to an internal report were as bright as 600 lumen each. With twenty such bulbs deployed to…