Celebrity Politics TV Anyone?

Muriel Gray knows a thing or two about the telly so it's very revealing what she has written in the Herald on Sunday about Alan Sugar's appointment as 'business tsar' – whatever the hell that is. No one in their right mind can honestly believe that Sugar can do anything for British business; he is after all just a TV presenter. However, what his appointment is ultimately all about is the mindlessness of Brown and his henchman Lord Mandy.

Most damning of all in Ms Gray's piece is this. "Nothing wrong with any of that. It's a terrific show. Sugar does what he's told by the producers, appears to follow a script as he often stumbles over the words, and is probably, if other reality shows are the benchmark, told by the production team which contestant to fire each week."

Read the whole thing and weep for what a nonsense this government has become. Maybe instead of elections we should have Simon Cowell and half a dozen other celebrity judges should help select our politicians. Pick our Politicians or The Ballot Box on the box? We'd probably get more people voting and would they be any less competent or qualified?

The End of TV As We Know It?

There's no doubt in my mind that the BBC, yes all of it, every last amoeba of its entirety, has gone completely bloody bonkers. There's a programme on TV as I write called 'Saving Planet Earth', nothing wrong in that I hear you say, and you'd be correct. However, who do they get to present it? Alan bleeding Titchmarsh and Graham Norton. What are they thinking of? It has to be down to the fact that they've given both these twerps a contract (I think in the case of the Irish Liberace it's worth millions) and they've got to find work for them.

They lack credibility, any natural empathy with the audience and in the case of the former garden makeover expert an inability to speak without adopting a silly voice and a compulsion to try and turn trite into a presentational style all his own.

OK, rant over.

You Couldn't Make It Up - No.3

It's a morning for them.... In today's LA Times there's a story about a former head of HBO (Home Box Office) who had a problem with a scene in the first season of "The Sopranos" where Tony Soprano kills a guy while touring colleges in Maine with his daughter Meadow. Albrecht worried viewers would be turned off, witnessing the show's protagonist murder a man in cold blood. Err, it's about the Mafia who kill people. They are not some bunch of people who deep down love animals, babies and the mums, who are somehow forced into killing people. It's a weird world where audiences love this kind of stuff and then wonder why we have some of the problems we have.