russell brand - C or D?

In case you're wondering (after doing some fact checking), the Mail owns a 20% stake in ITN (hence all the snickering on News At Ten last night) and a 29.9% stake in GCap Media, which includes Capital Radio.

Vested interests in doing down the BBC and Radio 2? Says who?

Mr Thompson, who has been in Sicily as the crisis unfolded

YAYYYY THAT'S WHERE WE COME FROM

Who are the vested interests in the BBC? The licence fee payers who pay Jonathan Ross £6million a year?

wow Judy Dench has a 007 tatoo

where is a paper brave enough to track down former fawlty towers cast members to find out their opinions

read the bottom of that Mail article...

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still havent heard john cleese's take

what is connie booth's opinion

and the guy who played one of the germans, surely his thoughts are vital

No comment from the Pope yet, but...

Prunella Scales, who starred with Mr Sachs in Fawlty Towers spoke out with her husband, actor Timothy West.

They said: 'We think it is an unfunny, sickening attack by overpaid stars. How do they get away with it?'

XPOST DAMMIT!!

God, being british is great isn't it? We're so much smarter than other nations.

Last night, walking through town, every bookshop had JRoss' "Why do I keep saying stuff like this?" in the window.

And on walking through HMV, episodes of Fawlty Towers playing on the TVs and lots of boxsets for sale.

If only Fawlty Towers guest star Ken Campbell had lived long enough to offer us his views on the scandal.

Then again I think Nicky Henson's still around.

And NATIONAL INSTITUTION Bernard "Televisual Feast" Cribbins!

God, being british is great isn't it? We're so much smarter than other nations.

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It'd be pretty great to see, I dunno, Jimmy Kimmel and Dane Cook leave abusive messages on Donnie Most's answering machine as a tribute.

i think what the british public really needs to hear is the opinion of the fawlty towers themselves

Ross should get a terrier and call it Dailymail. And then buy a shoal of piranhas and call them The Great British Public.

where is a paper brave enough to track down former fawlty towers cast members to find out their opinions

http://www.sitcom.co.uk/fawlty_towers/graphics/char_major.gif

EW, O RLY TWATS

I do like an occasional dose of Daily Mail to remind me why I hate it so much.

haha i know several people who are sort of addicted to the mail website just to gawp at the comments

favourite mail headline of recent times: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1080860/Is-debauched-Halloween-party-really-suitable-young-royal-Beatrice.html

so scolding!

"Is this debauched Hallowe'en party really suitable for a young royal, Beatrice?"

Sadly Much Loved Where's My Paper Fawlty Major Star Ballard Berkeley passed away back in 1988 but no doubt he would/wouldn't have approved.

Was he a Times man or Telegraph? Silly question, latter obv.

Ballard Berkeley may have had the greatest voice in the history of the English language

i think you're forgetting about Windsor Davies

the greatest voice in the history of the Welsh language

ah lol yes

Ballard Berkeley may have had the greatest voice in the history of the English language

When the word "wogs" emerged from his mouth, it was as if it had grew wings

if only he had made those calls to andrew sachs

it would have been like they were playing handels messiah on the bbc

of course, they wouldnt do that now, so as not to offend the muslims

Brand, a former heroin addict who resigned before he was sacked from the show he has presented since November 2006, said he took "complete responsibility" in a rambling apology in a video broadcast in which he appeared to be standing next to a photograph of Stalin.

wtf?

Say all that in one breath!

only a filthy Commie could be this uncouth

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Fawlty Towers box sets all at eye/buy-level at the entrance to Fopp at lunchtime. Andrew Sachs is victimised and John Cleese laughs all the way to the bank, doing a funny walk.

The controller of BBC Radio 2, Lesley Douglas, has resigned over the prank calls involving Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross.
Ms Douglas said the decision to leave her job was "mine and mine alone"

Douglas was the one who said Lamb was a good person for the station because he would appeal to women or something?

So well done guys, your campaign kinda worked. :)

Fawlty Towers box sets all at eye/buy-level at the entrance to Fopp at lunchtime

How much? That and the Father Ted box set are ones I keep picking up hoping they'll go down in price.

Lesley Douglas was the one who said she'd go if the beeb insisted on blaming the producer/editor I think? This whole things seems beyond ludicrous now. Theresa May is calling for a full debate in the House. 30,000 complaints and still rising. And I understand some of the Sluts will be on CookalongaRamsey tomorrow.

^^^ according to their MySpace page, yes. Ramsey is a mate of Wossy, so maybe this is going to be some kind of damage limitation effort by proxy.

good job Question Time is in Washington DC tonight.

And I understand some of the Sluts will be on CookalongaRamsey tomorrow.

hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa

it's all taking an entertainingly surreal turn now! maybe we will yet get ross in the stocks

Ross suspended without pay for three months
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7700816.stm

Wihtout pay. Oh, the humanity.

Fawlty Towers box set was £20 I think.

I got it years ago for less with a free tiny car and a tiny model Basil holding a tiny tree branch.

A quick search online says you can get it for less than £15.

let's run a book on who ross's first guests will be when he's back on the beeb in 3 months.

Russell Brand, Ricky Gervais, and... Ricky Gervais

was hoping he'd be sacked :(