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It clearly wasn’t enough for BBC director general Mark Thompson to post a defence of the corporation’s decision not to air an appeal for Gazan aid on a BBC News blog on Saturday evening. Noone appeared to have read it. The Sunday papers review on the otherwise execrable Radio 2 Michael Ball show made no [...]

Posted on January 26th, 2009 under Broadcasting, Other Media, Television. Tags: BBC Director General, Gaza appeal, Mark Thompson, Michael Ball, Radio 2, Radio 4, Today programme. Comments: None

So the BBC Trust - that collection of the great and the good who the government appoints to rule the BBC - has today published its conclusions on the famous Russell Brand Show/Jonathan Ross/Andrew Sachs farrago.
In short, the Trust led by affable but somewhat “senior” in age Sir Michael Lyons, has decided that Mr Ross’ [...]

Posted on November 21st, 2008 under Other Media. Tags: BBC, BBC Trust, Jonathan Ross, Lesley Douglas, Mark Thompson, Radio 2, Russell Brand. Comments: None

I should just move on. I’ve suffered sudden bereavement before. But I can’t help wondering whether Jonathan Ross will return to BBC 1 and Radio 2 after his three-month suspension. Jeremy Vine and Terry Wogan have apparently cast doubt on the idea.
For what it’s worth, I reckon Ross and his agent Addison Cresswell will wait [...]

Posted on November 4th, 2008 under Other Media. Tags: Addison Cresswell, BBC, Jeremy Vine, Jonathan Ross, Mark Thompson, Radio 2, Russell Brand, Terry Wogan. Comments: None

 
This is the sort of intro Jonathan Ross used all the time on his Saturday Radio 2 show, before he was hysterically pulled off air by Mark Thompson last week in the Andrew Sachs row. I like “Here’s the thing” as an intro – it’s kind of American, a bit crass and ungrammatical but [...]

Posted on November 3rd, 2008 under Other Media, Television. Tags: Andrew Sachs, BBC, Johnny Vaughan, Jonathan Ross, Mail on Sunday, Mark Thompson, Montreux, opus dei, Radio 2, Russell Brand, Sunday Telegraph. Comments: None