Monday, June 04, 2007
Channel 4: How to Privatise a Channel in One Easy Lesson
In their never ending quest to win friends and influence people and persuade Gordon Brown that they should not be privatised Channel 4 has come up with a right corker of an idea. They have asked George Galloway to present Big Brothers Big Mouth all next week. Good plan guys. Now, any bets on what their opening share price will be?
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Respect!
Iain
any comment on the more important developments like a movement to make our government obey the rule of law? Guido seems to have struck a chord with decent people who are fronting their time and cash to help expose the illegal behaviour of our government? You are a respected voice of reason on such matters and I would like to hear your voiews on a potentially momentus sea change in politics.
Long overdue. C4 has never really acted as a "public service" broadcaster anyway.
BBC next?!
Would anyone really want to buy Channel 4 though? It'd be one rather large bad mark on your record...
Sounds like a good idea to me .We are heading for a new dark age presaged by Labour wishing to drop Ancient history from the syllabus. Naturally we will want to watch freak shows as we hurtly past the medieval into the long night that awaits .
Send in the CLowns..(broken sobbing voice) There ought to be clowns..(whisper)..well maybe ...next ...year
It may be news to you, Iain, but Galloway is very popular. His radio talk show has the highest ratings for a weekend show on TalkSport. I listen to it and it's brilliant.
I haven't watched any of the BB shows yet but I will be watching the ones hosted by Galloway. I became a fan of his after listening to his weekly radio talk show and I'll be interested to see how he gets on with a TV show.
I think it's too easy to demonise Galloway. Give him a break. Personally, I would rather see Vanessa Feltz host the show. LoL What happened to Russell Brand anyway? C4 is not as bad as C5! :)
Jeremy Isaacs warned what would happen putting Michael Grade in place.......and Channel 4 died when Isaacs left
No hurry to privatise...just refuse it any public funding and let it twist in the wind
Sorry, don't understand the comment about C5. I don't watch much TV and only have terrestrial channels, but C5 comes up with some terrific art programmes amongst other things.
C4 is 99% hogwash and drivel.
Bigmouth on Big Brother ?
Alan Douglas
'They have asked George Galloway to present Big Brothers Big Mouth all next week'
Shouldn't he be forced to resign his seat for failing to do his job?
Canvass
“Its all to easy to demonise Galloway” well of course it is . Lets see, he is a man who "Knelt “ yes "Knelt " before S. Hussein and grovellingly mewed on about how even now little boys are named for you.. and we do not stop until “Jerusalem”.(He was actually above underground prisons in which the regimes victims , one at least for every family screamed in unheard agonies) A man who fans Islamic extremism in London for the sake of his career , never mind the fact that it will certainly end up killing many more Londoners .
He doesn`t need demonising and the fact he is comparing a barbarian freak show for the permanently infantilised is all of a piece with Blair`s bloody awful Britain.
newmania - calm down, dear, there's a good chap.. If you want chums of the old Saddam you need look no further than George HW Bush and our good old defence companies who supplied him with plenty of arms for his war on Iran. So let's not get sanctimonious shall we, eh petal ?
Let us instead hypothesise as to what , if any, C4 programmes Gordon Brown may watch.
Wife Swap ?
"Would anyone really want to buy Channel 4 though?"
Of course. The Channel does present SOME good programs. It's not all that bad (even though I am a big critic of C4)
And I see that C4 have turned out the request for Princes William & Harry not to show that 'controversial' documentary either. I'm sure it is 'responsible' but I really cannot believe it is going to add to much of our knowledge of this covered at such length by enquiries and stories ad nauseam in the Express.
C4 really do seem to be on a kamikaze mission to lose the 'millstone' of their public service broadcasting ethos so they can concentrate on a ratings-push.
our good old defence companies who supplied him with plenty of arms for his war on Iran
Defence is an industry that sells its products to countries that use them you either have it or you don`t but its never going to be pretty. It has continued under all administrations in the same way. Iran did need squishing and none of this excuses the disgusting and craven George Galloway or the rest of the less virulently but still anti-semitic left so well represented in the BBC, and the media .
Oddly enough I had already edited gobbets of abuse from that comment in view of canvass not being a bad sort in general
The vast Majority of Iraqs weapons came from France and the old Soviet Bloc.
George chose to grovel in Iraq.
Not just Hussein senior.
Here he is, with the rapist and torturer Uday Hussein.
Or "Your Excellency" as he calls him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=475s_LuXE0E
Channel 4 is actually quite good apart from the extreme left drivel that is 'Channel 4 News'. Certainly much better than ITV or al-beeb.
I wondered why C4News had gone coy over the recent pasting C4 got in the judgement regarding Celebrity BB. Now I know why: they fear Brown might privatise them. They might stop getting paid for their extreme left propagandising. Hooray. Gordo for PM!
Anonhymous [1.28 PM] Actually, I think the news is the only thing that's any good on Channel 4. All the rest is drivel.
Anonymous [1.28 PM] Sorry I spelt your name wrong.
C4 has never really acted as a "public service" broadcaster anyway.
You're right, as I do have a limited range of interests.
Channel Four changing it's status? It's happened before after a channel aired a controversial programme. After Thames TV made 'Death On The Rock', Thames didn't get its license back in the 1991 renewal round. Some reckon that was because the government of the day didn't like the programme. But Big Brother, now this, I see egg shells being trodden on.
Trumpeter Lanfried said...
"Anonymous [1.28 PM] Sorry I spelt your name wrong."
Apology accepted, but please try to be more careful as we may be easily offended.
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