Ross leaving the BBC

[Captain Shaw]

Does anyone care?
I do think his days where numbered after that phone scandle so he jumped ship before he was pushed.
I just hope the 3 puffs and a piano find work.

Ross, 49, said in a statement that he would quit his BBC1 talkshow, his Radio 2 Saturday morning programme and his late night film programme when his contracted ended in July, but would continue to host the Baftas and other specials.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/07/jonathan-ross-quits-bbc?CMP=AFCYAH

and here is the Daily fail take on the story

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...hirds-salary-cut.html?ITO=1708&referrer=yahoo

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I think it's a shame he's going, because I can't stand Kermode and no doubt he'll be doing Film from now on.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I think it's a shame he's going, because I can't stand Kermode and no doubt he'll be doing Film from now on.

I have never heard of him so could not comment.
I have never brought a copy of hello/ok mag i don't really care what celebrates get up to so never really been interested in chat shows.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I think it's a shame he's going, because I can't stand Kermode and no doubt he'll be doing Film from now on.

I have never heard of him so could not comment.
I have never brought a copy of hello/ok mag i don't really care what celebrates get up to so never really been interested in chat shows.

I've occasionally watched his chat show, and I don't mind it but I'm not too bothered about that. I just think it's a shame the BBC don't have the balls to allow their shows to be controversial any more in case idiots complain.

Mark Kermode is a bit of a middle class snob when it comes to popular culture.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Bit pointless as he has already had the 18million for his 3 years of work at the BBC, talk about value for money.

 

[Captain Shaw]

Bit pointless as he has already had the 18million for his 3 years of work at the BBC, talk about value for money.

To be fair he did not take home 18million.
The 18 million includes the cost of the shows Not saying he did not take home more than what i will earn in a life time.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Bit pointless as he has already had the 18million for his 3 years of work at the BBC, talk about value for money.

That whole thing annoys me. You'd think he was paid an unheard of amount of money in the industry, when others earn just as much or even more for less.

 

[captcalhoun]

maybe the next person doing a friday night chat show can afford a researcher so that we avoid things like Wossy saying to John Hurt 'What's the new Indiana Jones film called?' only days after everybody and his brother was discussing wtf 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' was. and that's just one example. The Mirror TV critic quoted one of his dumbass lack-of-research questions every week.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

The problem with the BBC at present is that it sits under the apron strings of being funded by the public but it wants to run with the big boys like a commercial station chasing ratings and big names, yet the licence fee paying public could have watched Ross on Ch4/5 doing the same thing without having 6 million a year drop out of the licence fee coffers, especially now with the BBC banging on about having no money, its not like we are overrun by a vast amount of quality programs on a daily basis on the BBC that make commercial TV look bad.

 

[Captain Shaw]

If the BBC did not have some shows with big ratings people would say the BBC its not worth the money the BBC can not win no matter what it does.
And has long as we have sky producing a show like live at studio 5 and calling it a news show i say we need the BBC.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

If the BBC did not have some shows with big ratings people would say the BBC its not worth the money the BBC can not win no matter what it does.
And has long as we have sky producing a show like live at studio 5 and calling it a news show i say we need the BBC.

Totally agree. BBC get moaned about whatever they do.

Most of what I watch is on the BBC. Without them there are very few British shows that I would watch.

 

[Captain Shaw]

To night was a BBC night for me it started with history of now and then went on to nurse Jackie.
And i have a few shows from BBC 1 and 4 that i want to catch up with on the I player.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Funnily enough, this announcement comes a day after Russell Brand announces his engagement to Katy Perry.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8444263.stm

I wonder if the two stories are related?

I think it's a shame he's going, because I can't stand Kermode and no doubt he'll be doing Film from now on.

I always thought Andrew Collins might be mild mannered enough to take up the mantle rather than Mark Kermode (who I do like, by the way) - but I think Kermode wouldn't be the right sort of person for The Film Programme - he's better off keeping his occasional rants to The Culture Show and 5Live (and Newsnight Review).

Besides, Kermode's verdict on TransFormers: Revenge of the Fallen was brilliant in its simplicity:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_D2XKRbYmM[/yt]

It could be worse - it could be "Film 2010 with Paul Ross"

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^Practically everything I watch on other channels is an American import. Law & Order UK, Shameless, Skins and Misfit are the only things that spring to mind on any of the other channels right now.

 

[captcalhoun]

i hope Kermode dies of a brain related injury.

 

[Jax]

I will never get the hate for the BBC by sections of the country because its the most watched network in the UK because it has the best overall group of shows on TV & Radio. Not too mention the recent report that stated the BBC gives the UK Economy double what it costs to run...In any other buissness giving out double what you pay to run it is called a success over here its dam BBC costs too much. Imagine if tax payers money could be used like that more often.

On a personal note am sick of Norton so i don't want him to get that and hes not been funny since hosting his friday night channel 4 show many many years ago. I wouldn't mind if Michael McIntyre got the gig though, he seems like he would make a good chat show host.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Fucking hell, no. I can't stand McIntyre, smug, bobble-headed git.

But I agree with you about the BBC... without it we'd be stuck with the dross ITV and Five put out for our national output.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Just to rein in the "Oh how could you hate the BBC" brigade before they start, my issue is not with the BBC and the licence fee, its with the BBC wasting the licence fee to ludicrous levels as we had with Jonathan Ross, six million a year to host a chat show to allow free advertising of whatever movie/DVD/theater/ad nauseum of whatever celebs were on it that week, i have no issue with the BBC getting talent but lets not for one minute forget the BBC is funded by the public and its not a bottomless pit to go squandering like they did with Ross and then go ask the government for another inflation busting licence fee hike every year......its ludicrous.

If certain celebs wont work at the BBC because they cant earn millions or more a year then fuck them, let them go elsewhere, there are plenty of people who will do the job for less and give better value for money and still produce the same desired effect, just because they paid 6 million a year does not automatically mean a better quality programs output, as we saw quite obviously with Ross.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^But that's a stupid complaint, because it wasn't £6m for hosting his chat show, it was £6m a year for hosting 2 TV shows and a radio show, plus producing fees for them. And Ross turned down jobs with other channels who were offering more so the BBC were paying less than he could have gotten elsewhere.
And the "inflation busting hike" wasn't to pay for "talent" it was to pay for switch over, which now the government want to keep that increase to pay for non-BBC stuff too. Besides that the next increase is going to be below inflation if I remember correctly.

 

[Starkers]

Well who saw that coming...probably everyone. Be interesting to see where Ross ends up now.

I used to think Kermode was a pretentious arse but the last few years I find I agree with him more and more-the man is a God! That said I do wonder if he's audience friendly enough to front Film 2010.

To be honest anyone would be better than hypocrite Ross.

Interviews Megan Fox on a Friday night about Transformers. "I watched it, and its fantastic and you;'re fantastic in it."

Reviews Transformers on Film 20** "This is a dire film, and ms Fox is a terrible actress."

Ok I don't know if the above actually happened but I've seen him be equally inconsistant with regards many, many films/actors, and he's got increasingly sleazy over the last few years.

At the end of the day he was paid way too much, even for multiple shows. I can appreciate why the BBC did it but it is coming back to bite them on the arse now.

One of the BBC's major problem is that they want to have things both ways. They want to security of being a publicly funded body without the oversight and transparency that comes with it. So hence we don't really know for sure how much Ross earned because the BBC have been playing fast and loose with the Freedom of Information Act for years.

Don't get me wrong, I adore the BBC will defend its right to exist to the hilt and sure as hell would miss it, but...

They have to be more accountable. They're a publicly funded body and need to be open about what they spend and on who, because if MPs salaries and expenses are fair game then BBC salaries and expenses are too.Unfortunately too often they don't seem to see it this way, which leaves them open to all sorts of attacks from the Mail/Tories whoever.