Crap evening for entertainment news
Well, that sucks. I enjoyed both of those people very much. A twitter friend suggested Steven Moffat should invite Russell Brand to be the next Doctor, which would be tremendous.
I guess it's not too surprising that David Tennant's leaving, but I was hoping the lure of Steven Moffat scripts would be enough for at least another series. Oh well.
It's ridiculous that RB was forced to resign. An apology was obviously appropriate, but demands for resignation? Get a grip. It's all a right-wing BBC-hater's wet dream, and their cacophony of outrage doesn't ring true.
And I bloody wish they'd stop calling them 'prank' phone calls - that's a broken definition of 'prank'. It wasn't set up, preplanned, or, imho, intended to be malicious. Calling it a 'prank' call gives completely the wrong impression. Call it thoughtless, say they should have known better, demand apologies, etc.. But calling it a 'prank' is undeniably unfair.
I still think the whole event is entirely explicable as a regrettable mistake without intentional malice, and that anyone listening to the show would see this. But maybe that's too subtle for the rabid prudes and BBC-haters. Not that everyone who complained can be classified as such, obviously. But many undoubtedly can, and they're very, very loud.
(edit) His resignation video is impressive and worth watching, imho. It confirms the impression I had of the guy, too.
*grump*. The story has caused some fun around here, mind: my Brand / Ross / Sachs post got linked to from Radio 4's Today Programme website yesterday, and that plus Google searches nearly killed the webserver.
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October 29th, 2008 - 23:23
Oh, who cares about Russell Brand? It’s not as if he’s going anywhere. We all know how the BBC works; they fire you from one show and then hire you for another. Plus Channel 4 still want him and he can still do stand up and films. And to be frank, I’m sick of him anyway. Sure he’s funny, but he’s also fantastically annoying, and there are a lot of less annoying funny people so I watch them instead.
October 29th, 2008 - 23:58
I know he’ll still be about – I’m just grumpy because his was one of three podcasts I actually looked forward to listening to
Plus I find the twists and turns of the situation sociologically interesting. And I admit I like getting all defensive when people attack the BBC 
October 30th, 2008 - 08:50
DT leaving has added an extra edge of melancholy to my week (overloaded with work, cat poorly) – even though we all knew that it was going to happen…
On the RB thing: I’m actually not a fan. BUT I do think that the fact there were only two complaints initially says far more than the media frenzied excess of commentary since then (interesting you got linked to!!) Personally, I can’t help but feel this would never arisen had’lovely Georgina’ not had the lack of taste and sense in her choice of people to have secks with… I mean, really, RB isn’t exactly known for keeping quiet about his secks life is he??
October 31st, 2008 - 12:29
Personally I thought the ITV news at Ten reporting last night was unprofessional and showed ITV in a poor light. They could have reported faithfully and accurately but there was clear moments where they were attacking the BBC. However it was good that they showed the emotions of Chris Evans and all at the BBC over the loss of an instrumental controller – who can only go onto do other good things, its easy, as a viewer/listener to forget those who are pushing the boundaries of entertainment and who aren’t the personalities that we see. Perhaps this is a new step forward for her and russellbrand.com