russell brand - C or D?

at least, not if Channel 4 have any guts.

C4 will be glad of Ponderland ratings bump

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?

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.

BBC News website readers can follow prime minister's questions live on the BBC News website.

oh, good point: sorry, i was thinking it was BBC3. hmm. yeh, sorry, as we were.

thought the whole point of speculation was that it's too early

Did a vicar's son give the nod for Ross and Brand's obscene phone calls?

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?

Happier times: Georgina as a 10-month old in a treasured family photo

Daily Mail photo caption

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.

(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.

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

The BBC should be ashamed at these sick stunts:

Brand is a pre-Raphaelite version of Bernard Manning according to Morgan.

?

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

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.

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.

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

Come on, if you can only manage a five minute work-out that hardly the beebs fault.

It's hardly the BBC's fault that nobody watched Piers Morgan's series of interviews with has-beens.

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

Who they?

Yeah, she's just been made head football coach of Argentina. Don't cry for me, etc...

you'd know if the bbc was doing its job.

No mention of Brand and Ross on PMQs - when are our elected leaders going to take this seriously!

is the recession really that important? i mean, really?

The BBC news has now gone back to the Brand/Ross story, phew.

I think it was before all that, and to be honest it smacks of the 'youthful rebellion' a'la Paul Weller's "conservative" Jam statements. Presumably, it didn't help (the Wilson case thing)...

xpost to Marcello re: The Move.

FTSE up 200 points on news of Brand / Ross suspension.

I know Andrew Sachs well, because I wrote a couple of books in the early 90s withshagged his son John, the former Capital Radio DJ. And he really is one of the most polite, impeccably mannered, and charmingslutty men you could wish to meet.

i mean, first you find out your granddaughter shagged russell brand, next you hear that your son had been writing books with piers morgan! talk about a double blow :(

he's only finding all of this out now? did he know nothing? he ith from barthelona, etc

Has anyone done the "Eeez not love rat, eeez hamster" headline yet?

sadly, no.

"uno, dos, tres... people are getting fired from the Beeb!"

The Sun went with "Que?"

"He put Russell een the microwave??!"

This has to be a spoof comment:

I'm delighted the Mail brought this matter to our attention so soon after it was broadcast so we could take action. I would never have known about the distasteful antics of those two hairy bullies otherwise.

- Doreen, Dorset, 29/10/2008 08:00

microwave is surely wrong, don't know why i thought that (xp)

microwave Ratatoullie

Yeah, it was me (xxp).

Has anyone doing 'Don't Mention The Whore' yet?

heh

CONTROLLER OF RADIO 2 UNAWARE OF STATION POLICY AND GUIDELINES: "I learn it from ee book."

Matt DC needs new job writing tabloid headlines immediately

yeh, him and the thousands of subs facing redundancy over the next few years.

yes, because I was being entirely serious.