Those Brits sure love their Thatcher

Would watch Peter Knowles just for the accents. I remember years ago when they did a Bridgewater 4 biodoc and I was so happy to see West Midlands accents not being played for lulz.

I lived without a TV for a year or so once when I was single and carefree and my body could handle multiple days of being drunk.

Dr Who is basically nostalgia drama

Science fiction

with the occasional 51st century thrown in

xpost

I've seen that, challops-boy.

Don't agree about Doctor Who being nostalgia, really. I liked it when I was a kid, but not for the same reasons I like it now.

If you have a half decent internet connection you don't actually need a telly to watch TV these days. Especially if you only have two or three things you want to watch in a week.

A half decent internet connection and a computer hooked up to a big telly in my living room in front of the settee, you mean?

I think Ken was referring to period sets and costumes type Doctor Who, not in a "oh wow I liked this when I was a kid in the 70s" way.

(Yeah that's true, I'm sort of engaging with the 'throw your telly out' argument for no particular reason)

As soon as McGoohan checks out it'll be Prisoner Of The Prisoner on BBC4 starring Dennis Out of EastEnders with Ricky Gervais as Leo McKern, Sir Alan Sugar as Lew Grade and Pete Doherty as Alexis Kanner.

I had to watch "Silence in the Library" on the puter the other week cos I'd missed it twice. It's alright, but usually I can't settle down and watch stuff on here. I like to be more horizontal.

Kinda realised what Ken meant after the fact, it hasn't been much like that really tho?

Actually, that lineup for The Prisoner would be fine with me, apart from "Dennis out of Eastenders" who I don't know.

I can't remember the actor's name, but he was Dirty Den's son, the one who got stabbed in the Square at New Year.

Nigel Harman

...soon to be starring as Jess Conrad, who he looks really like, in that film about Joe Meek.

Oh right.

Fine.

Yo Pash, I mailed you

Watching the replay of this, her voice sounds more like Tony Hancock than Margaret Thatcher.

Carol Thatcher faces BBC ban over 'golliwog' remark

Not dead yet?

The day Thatcher dies, all ILX will be an LBZC ticker-tape parade

Thread needs Marcello to defend Carol T

A Good Tory

Been a rough time for Thatch. One of the twins almost got jailed, the other one's a racist.

And Ben didn't get a move away from Ipswich on deadline day

god, why does it take SO LONG for any guardian page to load?

According to insiders, Thatcher – who won ITV1 reality series I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! in 2005 – was chatting with The One Show host Adrian Chiles and guest Jo Brand about the Australian Open when she described an unnamed player as a "golliwog".

It is thought she was referring to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France, who went out of the competition in the quarter finals.

Show insiders said Chiles was "outraged" by the comment and he and Brand challenged Thatcher about it.

The pair also complained to show executives – as did production staff who later heard about the incident – and it is understood that Thatcher was approached the following day by the show's executive producer.

lol gis

http://towleroad.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/12/tsonga1.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1134663/BBC-drops-Carol-Thatcher-brands-tennis-player-golliwog-private.html

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Apparently this is political correctness gone mad!

Ironically, Thatcher was on the One Show with Jo Brand on Thursday evening. Brand was at the centre of a 'race' row at the weekend when it emerged she had made jokes about 'sending poo' to members of the BNP.

The following day, Simon Darby, the BNP’s deputy leader, made an official complaint to Hammersmith police alleging that Brand’s comment had been an act of incitement to cause racial harassment.

I remember having a golliwog as a child that I loved and cherished and for many people of my generation the word golly is a 'term of endearment'.

Writes a 200 year old woman

http://www.housequake.com/discography/betcha.jpg

I'm from the home of Robertson's Jam, so I know all about golliwogs

Forget the self seeking snitches. These leeks are far more organised. The Stasi are every where.

Some organised leeks, yesterday:

http://www.kumah.org/blog/Leeks.jpg

I'm loving those ratings they have now. This comment must have led to terrible conflicts:

Terrible I say. Wossie ,Brand and now Thatcher must be banned from our TV paid for by the decent hard working British viewer. Her mother would be ashamed of her

Hm, those ratings are not so amusing actually:

As a black person who grew up during the 'wog' era i find the use of the word 'golliwog' to describe a person's appearance wholly offensive. Its fine for those of you who didn't get bullied and taunted in the most officious way for your looks but for me the word brings back all the horrid memories of 60's Britian that I thought was long behind us. Carol Thatcher with her priveleged background should have a wider vocabulary than that to describe the way a persons looks.

officious?

Her mother would be ashamed of her

... if she could still remember who she was?

Oof.

scores negative 22

Dropped to 39 in the last 20 minutes. Somehow that whole rating system is scaring me more than the comments.

I was watching Carol T on The One Show other week and I nearly posted about how nice and tolerant she was when she was meeting people who had dropped out of the 'rat race', bearing in mind her nightmare of a mother. Kind of glad I didn't now.

She probably thought they looked like garden gnomes or something.

Her mother would be ashamed of her

I'm betting Denis would have been bursting with pride

Tonight's TV Guide entry:

19:00 The One Show
Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley present the live topical show about the concerns of the British nation and uncover stories of people in extraordinary circumstances. The series includes regular features by historian Dan Snow and consumer expert Dominic Littlewood, plus reports from personalities including Phil Tufnell, Carol Thatcher and Colin Jackson

Here cometh the predictable bandwagon.

Since John Fogerty's first band was called the Golliwogs I fully expect the BBC to ban all Creedence records from their airwaves.

I am also lodging a formal complaint about the BBC playing songs by Rick Astley because his surname sounds a bit like "aspie."

http://www.gothampublicworks.com/images/gallery/two-face-coin-1.jpg

I'm lodging a formal complaint against that image since it is a grievous insult to descendents of the victims of the Peterloo Massacre.

I'm sort of stunned that Sandringham thought that selling golliwogs was a good idea in the first place.

Was it Harry's idea?

I blame Thatcher... Carol, that is