Wogan says BBC is no longer best in the world
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:25:01 +0100
By Leigh Holmwood
guardian.co.uk,
August 12 2008
Terry Wogan has said the BBC has lost its standing as the finest broadcaster
in the world and that its bosses lack "old-fashioned thoroughness and
commitment" and given his strongest hint yet that he will quit as BBC1's
Eurovision host.
In a wide-ranging ...
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Evans is off :-)
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:55:35 +0100
That halfwit Evans is off all this week.
Brilliant :-) ...
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Luxy remembered
Sun, 3 Aug 2008 23:09:32 +0100
The Sunday Times
by Paul Donovan
August 3, 2008
Cliff Richard once said that when he was growing up in Hertfordshire in the
1950s, he never realised that Luxembourg was a country. He thought it was
just "two rooms somewhere, with DJs in them". It may be an apocryphal story.
But it is true that millions of us, ...
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BBC star presenters avoid 10 per cent pay cut
Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:57:26 +0100
Daily Telegraph
By Andrew Pierce
01 Aug 2008
The BBC's top presenters, such as Jonathan Ross and Jeremy Clarkson, are to
escape a 10 per cent pay cut which is to be enforced on lesser known names
because of a ¡ê4 billion funding deficit.
Household name stars like Jonathan Ross and Jeremy Clarkson have bee ...
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OT : Dido's new album, finally?
Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:59:45 GMT
According to a Buzzjack post, it will be released on Nov 3rd 2008.
Yeah yeah, I know what you're thinking - but sooner or later *one* of
these release dates has to pan out...
Even if this one is correct though, she'd have to sell at an
extraordinary rate to overcome Duffy & Coldplay's head-start if she was
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JW
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:06:53 +0100
Wogan's off on hols so JW is on for the next 2 weeks.
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Sarah Kennedy Breaks Down On Air!
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:52:53 +0100
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1037536/Emotional-Sarah-Kennedy-breaks-tears-live-air.html
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No Evans :-)
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:11:59 +0100
Enjoy - sorry it's a late announcement.
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J B ...
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The Welsh for microwave oven
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:28:54 +0100
Best thing I heard Wednesday 16th on Scotsman Ken Bruce's show, was him
chatting jovially with
effervescent Welsh travel newscaster Lynn Bowles about acquired Welsh
words - when she introduced 'Poptyping' as a modern (compound) word for
microwave oven ('popty' means bakery or oven - and the add-on bit is so
p ...
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Winkleman to host The Weekender
Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:41:08 +0100
Ben Dowell
guardian.co.uk,
July 10, 2008
Claudia Winkleman is taking over from Matthew Wright as the host of The
Weekender, BBC Radio 2's live Friday night music and arts show.
Wright, the former Daily Mirror journalist and the host of Channel Five's
daytime show The Wright Stuff, is stepping down after tw ...
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