The BBC Don't Love Monty Python, Did They?

There's a place in New Zealand called John Cleas, isn't there? What? Yes, there is. It is the tip in Palmerston North, because he famously visited Palmerston North and said, this place is a dump. So they named the city dump after him. The BBC didn't love Monty Python, did they, despite commissioning it? Yeah, well, it's commissioned by David Attenborough, wasn't it? Oh, he was the original channel head for BBC two,. And I remember reading years ago, and I can't find it since. He wasn't on top of everything that was going out, and Python was on quite late at night,