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More great Mail headlines today:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1081696/Degraded-confused-very-tearful-How-contestant-felt-Gok-Wans-Miss-Naked-Beauty-parade.html

can't help loving how they title these webpages

Fiona Bruce is on the cover of Saga magazine this month = I think the Mail is overreaching a bit here.

Shouldn't you be reading something edgier?

I read my nan's issue of Saga Magazine once, it had a music column by that dude that edits Word Magazine.

Denise, Sonia and Emily, who appeared in the first episode, which aired last week, believe they had a lucky escape when they were rejected by Gok's panel of judges.

i read all that whining to come to this line, aha it all makes sense now.

AA Gill said something in his S/Times TV column the other week about programmes like J Oliver's Ministry Of Food and by extension things like Gok Firehose missing a fundamental truth about the purpose of TV; i.e. that TV is a show-and-tell medium, not a look-and-learn one. Too much unearned finger wagging and patronisation going on in these shows, but then you'd think that would make them praiseworthy as far as the Mail was concerned.

can't help loving how they title these webpages

yeh, those are substantially more entertaining than the articles themselves!

I smell a merger

xxxpost

Check the cartoon halfway down the page
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080839/Ross-says-I-fear-Im-finished-In-meantime-juvenile-thoughtless-star-gets-16k-day-doing-nothing.html

IT'S THE ONLY LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1081601/Gemma-Arterton-Amanda-Holden-brave-London-chill-thigh-catching-dresses.html

You don't really need to read the articles do you?

Rather a lot of "oh noes, Kate Moss looks her age without makeup" and "oh noes, Katie Holmes looks her age without makeup" non-stories there.

Judging by their photos used to illustrate this shocking revelation, Kate & Katie look just fine, but "women look normal without makeup" is even less news than "women look different without makeup".

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

Yeah, but unfortunately that's what keeps them in business.

Aye, I know. I do my best with other papers to not even go onto their website, but the Mail's too roffletastic to avoid.

Have they printed a picture of Georgina with her clothes on yet?

(xxpost) I just look over the shoulder of whoever's reading it on the bus.

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...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MK3ZHVTXL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

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?