Tom Baker possibly worst host since Brian Blessed.
"best" host since blessed you mean!! they were both extraordinarily entertaining and doofy and both seemingly unrattled by constant stream of abuse they received from the panel
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 November 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, are people still giving a shit about this?
― India's second-favourite Australian popstar (King Boy Pato), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ New Cape of Good Hope tagline
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Bloated BBC out of touch with the viewers
But, I can hear the cry, what about the left-wing bias?
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
With Radio 2 it should be "what about the 1985 bias?"
― Do they mean us? They surely do! It's Ray Conniff! (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
They should run it like the NHS!
Pay next to nothing, and people could then show how brilliant they are before going off to the private sector and *THEN* earn millions. And not before.
)or should they?(
― Mark G, Monday, 3 November 2008 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
They should maybe not sack people because the Daily Mail tells them to.
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Who have they sacked?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Monday, 3 November 2008 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry, you're quite right, Brand resigned for the lulz.
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
suspend, then...
― Mark G, Monday, 3 November 2008 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Paul Gambaccini, who presents a weekly show on the network, said she'd stood by Russell Brand through thick and thin. He told Radio 5 Live he had warned Douglas about the dangers when she first hired Brand: "In this profession, we never disparage a colleague - it's an unwritten rule. But when his hire was announced, I sent an email of protest to her, the only one I've ever sent in my entire career.
"In this profession, we never disparage a colleague - it's an unwritten rule. But when his hire was announced, I sent an email of protest to her, the only one I've ever sent in my entire career.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Oooh get her, scratch her eyes out
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh right, "she'd stood by..." refers to Douglas not Gambo!
Gambo's a bit of a pompous prig but given that he's doing the US chart show he's playing the hippest music on R2 at the moment. "Whatever You Like" at five to seven on a Saturday evening! Cool!!
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
The granddaughter of Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs has called for Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross to be reinstated. By Nicole Martin, Digital and Media Correspondent Last Updated: 6:21PM GMT 04 Nov 2008 Georgina Baillie, 23, had initially urged the BBC to fire the presenters after they left a series of obscene messages on her grandfather's answer machine. However, she has now claimed that the decision by Brand to resign as well as the BBC's suspension of Ross for 12 weeks without pay was "way out of proportion". "I was really angry when I said I wanted them both to be fired, but I think the suspension was good enough. So I'm feeling a bit gutted really about the whole thing", she tells a Channel Five documentary, Russell & Ross: What the F*** Was All That About, which airs on Wednesday.
Georgina Baillie, 23, had initially urged the BBC to fire the presenters after they left a series of obscene messages on her grandfather's answer machine.
However, she has now claimed that the decision by Brand to resign as well as the BBC's suspension of Ross for 12 weeks without pay was "way out of proportion".
"I was really angry when I said I wanted them both to be fired, but I think the suspension was good enough. So I'm feeling a bit gutted really about the whole thing", she tells a Channel Five documentary, Russell & Ross: What the F*** Was All That About, which airs on Wednesday.
And lo, the circle is complete...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link
she tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentaryshe tells a Channel Five documentary
― GO BLACK DUDE FROM SPACE ♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡ (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link
lol uk
― BYE! GOOD (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:42 (fifteen years ago) link
The US elects their first black president. We have this.
― snoball, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Only because people keep reviving this thread, no-one else is talking about it.
― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:51 (fifteen years ago) link
No.. Channel five could possibly get their lowest ever ratings in the days of either big fuck-on documentary re: Obama, or going out to do the fireworks and that.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Did anyone see it?
(OK, lock thread tonite!)
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 09:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I have to say Snoball absolutely OTM here.
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 6 November 2008 09:32 (fifteen years ago) link
it was on; i wasn't really watching. it appeared to be slightly tongue-in-cheek and not necessarily as awful as it might have been.
― barracking bammer (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:00 (fifteen years ago) link
could you call it 'closure'?
Also: Rumour that GB is up for Celeb/Jungle...
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:02 (fifteen years ago) link
It's just wonderful how after Obama's win, all of this just seems to have stopped mattering, not that it ever mattered in the first place.
Radio 2 will go on whoever runs it and whoever broadcasts on it. So will the BBC.
As far as I'm concerned that should be the last word on the matter.
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:10 (fifteen years ago) link
it appeared to be slightly tongue-in-cheek
What? A British TV programme? In 2008? Slightly tongue in cheek?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG STOP BUMPING THIS THREAD NO ONE CARES ANY MORE
― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Just one last disturbing story to report...
― Huey in Melbourne, Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
.... and that Russell has got that part in the next Pirates of the Carribbean he so desired.
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't worry folks, the Amy Winehouse stories have started up again, now that the US Elections are over we're back to the issues the British media really care about
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I fully back the Ministry of Defence's decision to use Edenbridge, Kent, as a base for advanced nuclear weapons testing.
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
did russell brand shag sarah palin?
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Ask her grandfather
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Andrew Collins has been approached to take over from Ross's "Film 2008" gig. The true human cost of this tragedy.
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link
How about getting a film critic to do it?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Well he's already done his best to kill one BBC flagship programme (EastEnders), let's see how far Wry Irreverent Self-Deprecating Andy can tear Film '72 down.
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
This village do this every year, which means, polltime!
The Edenbridge Bonfire: Most deserving Guy
― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Andrew Collins edited Empire magazine, once.
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Does that make him a film critic? More than Jonathan R***, I suppose
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
He's a yes man and he's cheap.
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
He took over the role full time, then found the next month that Q's Editor resigned, so jumped immediately there.
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
According to The Sun newspaper, Miss Mason allegedly told a Bristol taxi firm "not to send an Asian driver to pick up her daughter". The Sun said Miss Mason, 40, told a cab operator: "A guy with a turban on is going to freak her out." Worker 'outraged' When her request was refused, she is alleged to have said: "You've managed it before." The taxi worker was said to be outraged and recorded the conversation, passing a copy to The Sun. Miss Mason is reported to have called the taxi firm off-air as she played a song on her afternoon show. A transcript of the conversation, published in The Sun, records how she ordered a taxi to take her 14-year-old from her Clifton house to her grandparents' home. A BBC spokesman said: "Although Sam Mason's remarks were not made on-air, her comments were completely unacceptable and, for that reason, she has been informed that she will no longer be working for the BBC with immediate effect."
The Sun said Miss Mason, 40, told a cab operator: "A guy with a turban on is going to freak her out."
Worker 'outraged'
When her request was refused, she is alleged to have said: "You've managed it before."
The taxi worker was said to be outraged and recorded the conversation, passing a copy to The Sun.
Miss Mason is reported to have called the taxi firm off-air as she played a song on her afternoon show.
A transcript of the conversation, published in The Sun, records how she ordered a taxi to take her 14-year-old from her Clifton house to her grandparents' home.
A BBC spokesman said: "Although Sam Mason's remarks were not made on-air, her comments were completely unacceptable and, for that reason, she has been informed that she will no longer be working for the BBC with immediate effect."
BBCPhonegate continues...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
wellity wellity:Sachs to join 'Coronation Street'Sachs to guest in 'Casualty' Christmas eps
― Thematically it's like a queer-Pipecock (blueski), Monday, 17 November 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
What a sudden career boost for this "victim."
― Don't think that it hasn't been fun. It hasn't. (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 09:29 (fifteen years ago) link
he's been in the Bill and Casualty in the past few years, so meh
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link
He'll probably end up presenting the new TOTP.
― Don't think that it hasn't been fun. It hasn't. (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 09:44 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) .. and Prince Charles' Comedy night.
Virtually got a standing ovation!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 09:44 (fifteen years ago) link
(sorry, i meant Holby City of course)
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link
That PC Comedy night was terrible.
Michael McIntyre must die.
― Don't think that it hasn't been fun. It hasn't. (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Bill Bailey was alright.
But, later on, it was all "audience respect" as opposed to "actually funny", wrt Atkinson,Cleese,Riversffxske!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 09:48 (fifteen years ago) link