At the time I found the following link the news that someone that the public disliked sufficiently to vote out of the collection of plastic freaks and nonentities that is the current series of Big Brother is to get a television programme is one of the main news items on BBC on-line entertainment news pages. The priority of stories is bizarre. However, the content is equally peculiar. The main rationale for this new-found fame appears to be that she was once on the telly.
I, too, was once on the telly – interviewed by a local television station when I was at school. I mentioned the Daily Telegraph and consequently won a bet with my dad. I was also once caught wandering across the back of shot in an episode of Rebus. Accordingly, as is my right in the modern era, I demand a new television programme on one of the proliferation of digital television channels. I am quite prepared to host and have executive producer credits for On the Rack, or Only Fools in Hearses.
hey – I was in Songs of Praise as a child. *Twice*.
gimme a programme.
> hey – I was in Songs of Praise as a child. *Twice*.
>gimme a programme.
You should get two programmes.
I was on TV once when at school, too. We were all interviewed on the subject of corporal punishment, and most of us, mainly prefects at that, said we thought it was a bad idea while the class scallywag (OK, one of them, we had quite a few) said he thought it was a really good idea.
The next day the maths teacher made us welcome by smashing chalk to smithereens on the desks with his belt, and the scallywag was praised as being an intelligent, perceptive lad, which was a real first for him.
Oh, and there was a shot of me (and others) in gown and hood descending the stairs from Bute Hall following my graduation which was used in Reporting Scotland.
On that basis I should have at least three series, I think.
BTW, the relative prioritising of news stories in the section is surely a fairly random thing? It is saying that this completely trivial thing matters more than those completely trivial things…
At least three series
I was once on Norwegian Radio so I was hoping for some sort of foreign sales thing too.
>BTW, the relative prioritising of news stories in the entertainment section is surely a fairly random thing? It is saying that this completely trivial thing matters more than those completely trivial things…
Indeed. But as trivial things go this seemed even more trivial than the others which included the end of Top of the Pops, Oliver Stone to donate royalties from his World Trade Center film to 11/9 charities, Tv viewing habits showing an increase of viewing of news related programmes, the sale of a Jimi Hendrix song, and the return of Jackanory with “just call me Sir” Ben Kingsley. The only thing which challenged it in trivilaity for me was the news that Madame Tussauds have made a Jolie Pitt baby. (Presumably with a Cruise-Holmes one in the offing (although I’m not sure how they’ll sculpt the hatching from its birthing pod))
Ooh, yes, I have been on radio too, I forgot that. A Radio Scotland programme on fire festivals. Also, my picture has been in the papers, twice. (I will skip over the recent Sunday Times version of a brief interview with me…)
I reckon five series, plus a stab at a version of Newsnight done properly, showing politicians what a rude interviewer would really be like (), with the option of ramming a few thousand volts through their chair if they repeatedly do not answer the question.
Done properly, they would be begging to be interviewed by a pussycat like Paxman.
Hmm. Yes, you have a point about the triviality index there.
I was on 6 episodes of Quiz Night in its glory days with the mighty Stuart Hall(1) (now sadly reduced to commentary on Top Dog.)
(1) A man with more presenting talent than all your Graham Norton, Paul o’Grady, Davina ‘pregnant again’ McCall and Dermot Learys put together. The greatest summariser English Football has ever known. And a decent chap all round.
I love his football summaries in Sports Report. Each one a mini-masterpiece.
In the Green Room after the grand Final people were asking him about It’s a Knockout, I went over and asked ‘where are you commentating tomorrow’, and I think he was impressed.