Oh right, they've just added a paragraph at the top.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link
18,000 complaints = approx 60,982,000 people who don't want them suspended.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope my maths is right there.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Daily Politics show on BBC just now talking about nothing but this story.
― Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Craven cowards.
A golddigger on the make and probably on the take starts whingeing "daddy daddy thethe men inhulted me" and two perfectly good presenters get suspended.
Kowtowing to the tabloid fascists.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh wait they're onto trivialities like Afghanistan now.
― Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Forthcoming to Saturday night Radio 2: four hours of Radio 2 Jukebox with Richard Allinson done with voice tracking to try and nick some listeners off Gold.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
If Lesley Douglas or Mark Thompson had any guts they'd have stood up and told the parties involved to go fuck themselves.
Paul O'Grady was right about the BBC being like the Home Office and sucking all the life out of anyone who went in there.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has also criticised the pair for their "inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour" on Brand's radio show.He is also expected to face questions from MPs over the affair in prime minister's questions later.
so he made public comment on it in advance so as to pre-empt this, or is 'expected to face questions' more a result of the comment? chicken/egg
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Awaiting the "saying Georgina Bailie is on the take is misogynist" posts.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:42 (fifteen years ago) link
There is a fucking RECESSION in this country.
And MPs are wasting precious time talking about THIS?
Christ, Britain breaks up a little bit more with every day.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, Nick, who'd heard of her before this was all blown up out of any sensible proportion?
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Truly Ross and Brand are Heroes of Comedy *sniff*
― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Personally if I were JR or RB I'd just fuck off to Sky or wherever and let the BBC stew in its own brown Windsor soup.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Kelvin "Scousers piss on dead bodies" MacKenzie is on BBC News 24 right now talking about how offensive Brand and Ross are.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Russell Brand had. On a swing.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i think at this moment it's worth remembering the original "celebrity" prank caller, john bean, aka leroy murcer -
from knoxville tennessee, ca. late 1970s/early 1980s - also, actually funny
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone who signs up with Max Clifford is probably hoping to profit from their unfortunate situation regardless of gender.
Gah when they said on the news last night that it was Commented Upon In Parliament, there were only about 20 MPs sitting.
― Bristol Meth (suzy), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
So that'll be Mark Lamarr covering for Ross for a fortnight and Stuart Maconie in the evening to send everyone off to sleep/Radio 1.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm meant to be writing a lab report. perhaps i should sack that and dig out my unfinished (barely begun) sitcom. it actually had a couple of jokes in it, if i remember rightly.
If you want some advice there's a good thread to post it to.
― cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:47 (fifteen years ago) link
politicians going on oligarch's yachts get to keep their job and these guys get suspended for making a prank call?
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:47 (fifteen years ago) link
this is some country
i thought Alexander Bell made the first prank call. pretending to be a sailor.
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:47 (fifteen years ago) link
haha mackenzie is loving this.
― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost to raw patrick: yeh, i'll obviously bear that in mind ;)
I took the "thousand journalists" comment as a sort of rap faux-braggadoccio. If he meant it then he really is a jerk
i think it was somewhere between the two extremes.
fuck this suspension lark: what does that mean for the first ep of russell brand's ponderland? because we've got a TV preview of that running in tomorrow's paper and if it gets pulled ... here, hang on, i'm not back in till friday. why am i worrying?
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
That's not on the BBC, though, so it shouldn't be affected.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
at least, not if Channel 4 have any guts.
C4 will be glad of Ponderland ratings bump
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, C4 it's on innit? They'll be loving this - highest ratings ever, as all the grannies check him out to see if he's offensive?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Director of audio and music Tim Davie said it was 'too early to speculate'
Hmm, so there's one person not issuing soundbites. Unless that's one.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
BBC News website readers can follow prime minister's questions live on the BBC News website.
― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, good point: sorry, i was thinking it was BBC3. hmm. yeh, sorry, as we were.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
thought the whole point of speculation was that it's too early
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Did a vicar's son give the nod for Ross and Brand's obscene phone calls?
― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Tell you something else I found out yesterday,
From the "Move" 4CD boxset: One of their first 'proper' gigs, after Tony Secunda took the manager's job, was a fundraiser for the Conservative party to which they invited Ted Heath to join in with!
Does that mean they *all* go on the list, not just Bev "Bev Kev" Bevan?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Happier times: Georgina as a 10-month old in a treasured family photo
Daily Mail photo caption
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Flipping hell (Grouty xpost) what was it with Brumbeat bands and their Tory leanings? One of the Idle Race's singles IIRC had its royalties donated to the Tory Party (allegedly) and some of the Moody Blues and Duran Duran are on the Tories' official celebrity list.
If Roy Wood consented to this he's just gone down approximately a zillion trillion percent in my personal ratings. Especially given that it was Joe Boyd who "discovered" them in the first place.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
(or was this just general resentment/reaction against Wilson's libel suit?)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081388/PIERS-MORGAN-Brand-just-sex-obsessed-ex-junkie--Its-Ross-BBC-sack-today.html
Finally, someone who matters has weighed in.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
But recently, our relationship 'hit the rocks' as they say in showbiz circles, for reasons I was never able to entirely fathom - though I suspect it may not be entirely unconnected to the fact that I am going to host a big new rival interview show for ITV.
big
― Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
The BBC should be ashamed at these sick stunts:
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Brand is a pre-Raphaelite version of Bernard Manning according to Morgan.
?
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I've just been to the gym, and this story was on the news channel the entire time I was there. There is NOTHING worse than the BBC talking about the BBC
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Is this all detracting from the Daily Mail printing large pictures of FoxyKnoxy looking vampish? If so, we should remember who the real victim is here.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Everyone working in broadcasting knows that mistakes can happen, especially in a live environment. I, for example, once inadvertently warned a terrified nation, 'I think Al Qaeda will strike this weekend', during what I thought was a private conversation with Fern Britton while co-hosting ITV's This Morning.They didn't, thankfully.
― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Come on, if you can only manage a five minute work-out that hardly the beebs fault.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
It's hardly the BBC's fault that nobody watched Piers Morgan's series of interviews with has-beens.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Give him a chance and what does he do? Scrap the page that strips him.
i can't believe people are letting this get in the way of serious discussion about guy and madonna
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link