So the taxpayers get to pay more tax to afford the extra development so that they can stop everyone else from watching what's already been paid for... Genius!
No "we" pay tax so that its made at all. Its not like an on demand model where they make the show either way and then recoup costs from selling the show. Its a whole set of channels that is run on TV licensing funds and by receiving terrestrial TV it is presumed you are also watching the BBC.
Obviously its bollocks and complete daylight robbery and most people, myself included, dont pay it. Theres nothing they can do about it as they cant prove your watching TV. Funny this came up actually as not paying TV licence is about to be decriminalized here.