'Fuckitybye' to NI's beef with the BBC?

An advert in the Times today promises readers a free download of The Thick of It on iTunes, the first of many BBC series it will be giving away as it woos new readers ahead of Rupert Murdoch's great paywall experiment. Isn't Auntie the main obstacle to making that model work, as the Murdochs rarely tire of reminding us? Or does this herald a new era of co-operation? As Malcolm Tucker might say... Oh never mind.