Ambridge Extra reported that the show was "highly unlikely" to return. The commissioning editor for Radio 4 Extra stated "Our "Ambridge Extra" decision won't impact on "The Archers" in any way, but across the BBC we are having to make tough financial choices and prioritise and protect the services and content that deliver the most value to audiences." Listener response to the early episodes were largely negative. Vicki Power from "The Daily Telegraph" suggested that the series showed potential, but needed to include storylines that the main show could "not afford to ignore", suggesting that the current format felt like listening to
Criticism of the BBC Webb said that the BBC is so biased against America that deputy director general Mark Byford had secretly agreed to help him to "correct" it in his reports, and that the BBC treated America with scorn and derision and gave it "no moral weight". In April 2007, Webb presented a three-part series for BBC Radio 4 called "Death to America: Anti Americanism Examined" in which he challenged a common perception of the United States as an international bully and a modern-day imperial power. Conservative American news commentator Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly sought to draw attention to what he calls the