The BBC

nothing says cerebral like being a pig ignorant anti vax nutter

Rajan is despicable and utterly full of shit as well, he would make an ideal like for like Keunssberg replacement.

oh aye he's the worst, massive "i've got lots of uni mates who get me these jobs" energy

These two paragraphs from Rajan on the BBC News site are a fucking disgrace as well:

Djokovic is, by any measure, a remarkable individual. Raised amidst two wars in the former Yugoslavia, by parents who sold the family gold and negotiated with loan sharks to fund his ambitions, he is fluent in six languages, arguably the greatest player ever to pick up a racket; and - most pertinently - a deeply committed libertarian who believes strongly in individual autonomy.

He has clearly thought deeply about the conflict between individual autonomy and the collective good - and he feels that, as an elite sportsman, his body is his business - in both senses of that word. He says he has an open mind, but as things stand, he will not get the jab.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60354068

No question as to what effect his actions has on others lol.

Could have replaced those two paragraphs with. "He's a cunt and nobody likes him".

on an unrelated note to him being a complete cunt i will maintain to my dying day that Federer is the GOAT and i don't care what the numbers say

Absolutely.

Yeah don't care about the stats

good to see the BBC expanding its coverage of old pop music to two nights of TV every week. maybe since BBC4 isn't working they could rename it Uncut and run non-stop music docs all week

no wait leave a bit of room to stick everyfuckingthing with Mark Kermode involved in there too

another thing they've done is replace Ash Sarkar with fucking Garry Kasparov as a Soviet Union commenter on Rise of the Nazis season 2. You might say "he lived there so fair enough" but the problem is he is a self-promoting know nothing one note grandstanding bullshit merchant and I stopped watching as soon as he came on. He should stick to getting his arse kicked at chess by a pc.

“Uncut” would be a good way of describing BBC Four in more ways than one. but probably not for long…

good to see the BBC expanding its coverage of old pop music to two nights of TV every week. maybe since BBC4 isn't working they could rename it Uncut and run non-stop music docs all week

Sky Arts - or as I like to call it, The Andre Rieu Channel - pretty much does that already.

ha i was gonna mention Sky Arts but they still do the occasional opera or musical theatre broadcast so i let them off

They broadcast the Poly Styrene doc and show some pretty good art docs so they get a pass from me.

Former beeb producer pushing anti-beeb shit now he's gone.

Odd that the BBC Politics pages don’t seem to have any reference to the Johnson comparison between Ukraine and Brexit. I may be wrong and have missed it. It seems to me to be a quite controversial thing to say and noteworthy in the current context. https://t.co/oaK9NDV59t

— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) March 19, 2022

they should do more podcasts by comedians

lol i feel like that’s all they do

that's what led me here this morning :D

I've had a blessed couple of hours of R3 listening without hearing one mention of the monarchy, some of the music was forgettable but soothing and made me think about how shouting fuck off at bbc radio content every few minutes is not good for your mental well being.

although I'm not ruling out there might have been a jubilee reference and I inattentively didn't catch it.

gah! and now between every piece of music there is some senile fuck talking about princess Margaret

Craig Brown?

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown author Anne Glenconner, and she's fucking tediously self important!

Scott Mills is proof that there is no god

That's a loss.

*Bit of news of my own today*

I’m delighted to say in September I’ll be joining Global, as co-host of @maitlis and @jonsopel’s new daily news podcast and Analysis and Investigations Editor for the whole network. My brief will be to supercharge the organisation’s video output. pic.twitter.com/tEJ0bgjXV0

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) June 20, 2022

Newsnight looking like a dead man walking these days.

My LinkedIn has been going through absolute waves of "leaving the BBC" posts recently (mainly from the Throw The Proles Out of London thing and the product changes tbf). But all this is even before the promised 1000 redundancies kick in.

Every now and then the BBC simply loves to publish what reads like a breathless puff piece about a complete maniac from the US political hellscape

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61789443

She was a natural campaigner, but fundraising lagged, so Mr Dent asked her father for a personal donation.

Her father had inherited land on the historic Galena Plantation and used the sprawling 8,000-acre property to restore the family farm, turning it into a premier quail hunting destination. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and Mississippi governors Barbour and Phil Bryant, became frequent guests.

Visitors of Fitch Farms could elect to stay in the former home of Confederate general and first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, which Mr Fitch had bought and transported onto the property.

Ms Fitch has told local media of "special" childhood memories at her father's farm, riding horses and hunting quail.

Newsnight actually not bad tonight.

Thornberry’s on Peston tonight which helps I guess.

There’s some good soothing mick lynch content in the main thread fella

the BBC should let Paddy McGuinness host something, i'm sure he'd be popular

I'd love to know why the BBC pushed Gemma Collins so hard a while back, and why they stopped. I can understand the Daily Mail pushing her, because she generated a lot of free content, but she felt a poor fit for the BBC. Even on the level of "we have to make something trashy for the plebs". There was a frequently-trailed podcast, a bunch of awards show gigs, and puff-pieces such as this ("Gemma Collins is the New Meme Queen):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-41160646

It was odd given that she was a very limited talent who had become famous for a TV show on another channel. I only remember her for her teeth-clenched grin. Was her agent pally with someone at the BBC? Did she go to the same school as someone at the BBC? It was weird.

Did she go to the same school as someone at the BBC?

This seems highly unlikely.

The podcast was a bit of a fluke. There were not high hopes for it but it got some traction initially and attracted an audience the BBC struggles with. So it got pushed hard.

Kate Bush -----> Glastonbury-----> Wimbledon

Everywhere you look on social media at the moment, reality TV star Gemma Collins is there.

You probably can't scroll through Twitter without seeing her running around with a Shetland pony or crying about straighteners.

That's because she's the latest celeb to be turned into a meme queen online.

Think I'd managed not to hear of her till now!

Feel like her star's already in decline tbh

I’m surprised she never came up on your radar from this incident, pf!

broke: Kim Kardashian and Trump

woke: Gemma Collins and Jeremy Corbyn pic.twitter.com/dYW6w4ojuD

— Rachel 🪆 (@RachelDocca) October 29, 2018

Gemma Collins meeting Jeremy Corbyn is the funniest story I’ve read in ages lmao https://t.co/zf1YqIj7oW pic.twitter.com/XPy5DEhsug

— Conor Behan (@ItsConorBehan) October 31, 2018

All totally unfamiliar, but definitely slightly improves my estimation of this person I have only just heard of.

"The podcast was a bit of a fluke. There were not high hopes for it but it got some traction initially and attracted an audience the BBC struggles with. So it got pushed hard."

That would explain it. It's like how Adrian Chiles has a column in The Guardian where he shares hilarious anecdotes about going to the DIY shop to buy a table lamp. It's a strange fit.

She inspired this thread on DigitalSpy:
https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/2324068/is-gemma-collins-the-biggest-star-in-britain-right-now

I think of DigitalSpy as Ilxor but without the irony or wit or knowledge or literacy or charm or sophistication or style or anything. And then I feel bad because I'm looking down at people who sincerely like television. What's wrong with that? As the commentators there point out that she seems to have been positioned as a latter-day Jade Goody, but an empty, manufactured Jade Goody without any of the genuine offensively or conversely any of the sincerity. She did apparently go to private school and stage school, but not the same schools that BBC employees go to.

And, hey, Ilxor has a thread about Adrian Chiles:
Most pooterish Adrian Chiles column

Which popped up after Googling "adrian chiles" "private eye" guardian. I understand now why he has a column with The Guardian!

Quoth Alba:
https://i.imgur.com/Ujcmqcf.jpeg

Gosh darn it:
https://i.imgur.com/Ujcmqcf.jpeg

Ashley Pomeroy, I don't know much about Digital Spy but I agree that it's nice to be nice to people who like TV. More specifically, there was a legendary ILM contributor, Robin Carmody, who would write very frequently with furious polemics against whatever people were saying on Digital Spy. I couldn't really tell why, but then he was an unusual character.

I dunno if there's a word for the kind of lightweight talk radio DJs that take up way too much air time on 5 Live and presumably other stations, where the show is just blathering about fuck all interspersed with no mark media celebs and unfunny anecdotes and humblebrags from the listeners

example: Scott Mills and Chris Clark, Laura Whitmore, god knows how many more

anyway, what the fuck is that about? does any sentient being enjoy this shit?

Chris Stark, not Clark

Stark and Mills have been on Radio 1 in the afternoon for more than 10 years. this autumn they’re moving to Radio 2. A lot of people like them. It’s extremely “LadBible” radio.

Actual soccer coverage and discussion on 5live is now also suffused with "Banter" in a way it was not in the days of Mike Ingham.

I dislike it greatly, though I have a higher threshold for Chris Sutton than some do - finding him, in his way and on his day, quite shrewd and dry.

Sutton and Savage are as bad as each other, playing the Talk Sport controvery trolling games