Everyone seems to be having their say over Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, so I figure I’ll hop on board. It’s a tangled web and no mistake but here’s the bottom line: it’s great, big, stinking mess over absolutely nothing. Almost everything I’ve read and seen has been band-wagon jumping of the highest order, when in reality it is a very simple situation. They overstepped the mark of good taste and the opportunity to mitigate

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Tags: Andrew_Sachs, BBC, Jonathan-Ross, Lesley_Douglas, Licence Fee, Richard_Littlejohn, Russell-Brand

Christmas Review #8 of 12

Another one of those “traditions” that has only been with us for a few years now is the Big Fat Quiz of the Year.  Channel4 ’s roll of the dice in the overly used “comedy quiz” genre, while being yet another part of Jimmy Carr’s ambition to take over the whole of light entertainment.  Divided into six sections each accounting for two months of the preceeding year, Mr Carr sets the questions to three teams of two personalities.  The object of the exercise is to answer as many questions as you can

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Tags: 2007, Big-Fat-Quiz, David Mitchell, Jonathan-Ross, Lilly-Allen, Noel-Fielding, Rob-Brydon, Russell-Brand

Outstanding

Given what happened the last time they broadcast the Brits live (and you can no doubt search for yourself on YouTube for the gory lowlights of Mick Fleetwood, Sam Fox et al) someone clearly made a brave decision to take the event back to being a real-time event and showing it at a pre-watershed of 8pm on Wednesday.� However, given the exception of a few near-the-knuckle comments from Russell Brand, it was all fairly docile.� Russell was his usual self and, although I thought

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Tags: Alan-Carr, Arctic-Monkeys, Brit-Awards, Brits, General, Joss-Stone, Keith-Allen, Lilly-Allen, Mick-Fleetwood, Russell-Brand, Sam-Fox, Sophie-Ellis-Bextor, Steve-Tyler, Take-That

CBB is Back!

We interrupt our Christmas retrospective to bring news of something more “happening”… Celebrity Big Brother is back on Channel 4 along with its full house of sister shows (i.e. more Russell Brand on Big Mouth, and Dermot on Little Brother).� Davina was her usual, over-excitable self and whipped up the panto crowd into a frenzy as the 11 new housemates, who are virtual strangers to us now, start to become familiar with their new surroundings as we become familiar with them.� So

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Tags: Big-Brother, Carole-Malone, Celebrity-Big-Brother, Cleo-Rocos, Danielle-Lloyd, Davina-McCall, Dermot-OLeary, Dirk-Benedict, Donny-Tourette, Ian-Watkins, Jermaine-Jackson, Jo-OMeara, Ken-Russell, Leo-Sayer, Reality, Russell-Brand, Shilpa-Shetty

Christmas Review #6 of 12

The Big Fat Quiz of The Year is now in it’s third (?) year and the 2006 installment was genius.� Jimmy Carr and Jonathan Ross together have something of a monopoly on the light entertainment merry-go-round so it was no surprise to see them in action, David Walliams and Rob Brydon are no strangers to it either and Cat Deely… was also there.� However, it was the pairing of Mighty Boosh’s Noel Fielding and rising star/national hate figure* (* delete as applicable), Russell Brand, that

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Tags: Big-Brother, Big-Fat-Quiz, Channel-4, Jimmy-Carr, Mighty-Boosh, Noel-Fielding, Quiz Show, Russell-Brand

“Do you remember the time?”

Now is the time of year when many people are summing up their collective recollections of the latest incarnation of Big Brother and beginning their reviews with the words “Big Brother 2006 will be remembered for…” and whether it be Pete’s Tourettes, Nikki’s tantrums, Richard’s Diary Room bitchiness, or even Endemol’s ongoing incompetence, all well and good… Big Brain, Little Brother, and Big Mouth have all provided adequate commentary on these enjoyable, Orwellian inspired antics. However, this is the time when my enjoyment of the show packs its bags and heads off on its summer holiday to be replaced by a despairing sense of frustration with the world. The 22 contestants have had their fifteen minutes and it’s been suitably fun to watch on, hurling abuse at the television, at Grace and at Russell Brand’s hair but now it’s over. In any normal society, the 22 of them would scuttle back to their respective homes and occasionally talk about their experiences to their friends over a pint. What we get though, is a bombardment of faces coming back to haunt us on magazine covers, at film premieres, in the press, and worst of all in more dreary “celebrity” TV shows. Now, I don’t blame the ex-BB’ers themselves, they’re just looking after number one and if some media type is willing pay good money for a chat or a photoshoot, why not? My problem is with us!! Why on earth do we care about these people, they have done their time, they’ve served their purpose and they should be moving on. Jade, Chantelle and, inevitably, Nikki will be haunting us for years but can someone please explain why any of us should be the slightest bit interested?

Tags: BBLB, Big-Brother, Celebrity, Channel4, Reality, Russell-Brand, television, Z-List