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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’ [...]
It seems the producers of BBC 2’s Never Mind the Buzzcocks are making something of a feature of inviting the not-so-musically-obvious to appear on the panel show. A few weeks ago Stephen Fry did a star turn on the show, to general acclaim and decent ratings (2.4m and a 10% share of viewing at 9pm [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
BBC DG Mark Thompson is wrong to pull Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand off air
OK, so these are the lengths I will go to, to keep abreast of meeja issues while I am a) unofficially on holiday (ie taking calls and juggling freelance commitments, but essentially just listening to the radio all day) and b) redecorating my dead mother’s house in a bid to buck the plummeting housing market. [...]
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