Tim Worstall

My word! Mick Aston quits Time Team after producers hire former model co-presenter Mick Aston, the archeologist, has quit Time Team after producers hired a former model as the programme’s co-presenter. So, toothsome bimbo to get her nipples out for the lads. Kown as the Dimmock Strategy. Woo Hoo! And I can see why a [...]

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Re the BBC and Sky, here. But here’s a tidy sum the BBC could recoup for us all. The Murdoch press has relentlessly lobbied to cut the BBC back to a US-style small subscription service for unprofitable programmes. Now, while Murdoch is weakened, is the chance for the BBC to regain lost ground. Here’s the [...]

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Leone, whose real name is Karen Malhotra, has been appearing in Bigg Boss, the Indian version of Big Brother, where a group of minor celebrities spend months in a house cut off from the world, vying for publicity and a cash prize. It’s now necessary to explain what Big Brother is. O Tempora, O Mores [...]

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I should make a declaration of interest here: I have taken Press TV’s shilling. Did a few pieces with them when I was working in London. So, that said: If the clerical state bought British newspapers or set up websites, I would not call for regulators to compel them to be accurate and impartial, and [...]

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Traditionally, kids entertainment groups have made just 10% of their income from broadcast commissions, with the balance generated by DVD and merchandise sales. Many companies have been squeezed by the global decline in DVD sales, while increasingly broadcasters expect to pay nothing for children’s television shows commissioned from outside rights holders. While Entertainment One has [...]

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Al says his Current TV is being forced off Sky Italia because he’s hiring Keith Olbermann in the US. Sly says that Current TV wanted more money for the fewer viewers it was delivering. A News Corp spokesman said: “The non-renewal of Current TV’s carriage agreement with Sky Italia is purely commercial. Current TV asked [...]

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So there’s this bird who reads the local news and she’s about to get married: Yankee announcer Michael Kay is a real meathead. And now that local TV anchor Jodi Applegate is about to marry him, she’s desperately trying to figure out how to please a man wedded to only three foods: steak, bacon, and [...]

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Selina Scott: Why I believe the BBC is guilty of blatant ageism and sexism Well, yes. OK. It exists. However, such complaints would work rather better if they weren’t coming from women who were clearly and obviously swiftly promoted in the first place because they were appealing eye candy. Yes, the totty gets on camera [...]

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Jurors were told Pritchard presented and starred in a show called Dirty Sanchez. There’s a TV show called “Dirty Sanchez”? I assume that means something different in the UK than it does the US?

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A terminally-ill volunteer is being sought to donate their body for a reality television show backed by Channel 4 that would see them mummified and possibly placed on display in a museum. No, not that, I’m sure there are weirder shows in development. This: Fulcrum is not offering any payment for the project, other than [...]

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Teenagers are being ignored by television programme makers, according to Phil Redmond, the creator of Grange Hill. Statements of the bloody obvious. As you’re now not allowed to advertise anything interesting (KFC, McDonalds, the sorts of things that teenagers might indeed spend their own discretionary money upon) to teenagers then there’s no money to make [...]

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Hey, lefties, boycott away. You are, after all, only making your preferences known by the way that you spend your money. You know, that market shtick thing, the thing which we froth-mouthed righties insist we should all enjoy all the time. Maybe you’d like to return the favour sometime? You know, let us make our [...]

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Clarkson, who previously had to apologise to Gordon Brown in February after calling him “a one-eyed Scottish idiot”, described him as a “cunt” in not-for-broadcast comments during the recording of this week’s Top Gear programme on Wednesday night. Isn’t the BBC supposed to be a reflection of the myriad opinions and communities of Britain? Clarkson [...]

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I dunno, dunno: It was courageous of Selina Scott to sue Five for age discrimination last year: they asked her to cover Natasha Kaplinsky’s maternity leave and then picked a younger model. Scott won, hurrah for her, and this week she delivered an angry diatribe about the “ageist BBC”, which had given Arlene Phillips the [...]

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Surprisingly good actually: Last, and possibly best, the ultimate reality channel: TONTINE TV (not to be confused with the reality show that has drifted in and out of development over the last couple of years). As originally conceived over 300 years ago, a tontine was an investment scheme, but I see it as a supercontest. [...]

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And make the country happier. Academics found happy people socialise more, read more newspapers and have more sex – but watch less television. Those who are unhappy watch up to 30 per cent more television than happy people, John Robinson and Steven Martin of the University of Maryland discovered. There’s the usual academic quibbling about [...]

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The research found that the new channel pulled in more than double the projected audience of 250,000, finding that 15 per cent of the Scottish population tuned into the station in the week following its launch on September 19. One in four Highlands and Islands viewers tuned on over the first week. The figures were [...]

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One of those strange PR spam attempts that arrive in email boxes every day. About some reality TV show.  After successfully working with Janice last season, Andrew Christian goes to meet with Janice as he is looking for the perfect model, or more importantly the "best butt" to represent his recently released butt-lifting underwear Flashback [...]

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Sadly, it’s only the TV show being sold.

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…last week a cameraman arrived at the London to record a video clip of Ramsay for the Emmy Awards. “The guy said to me, ‘Can you be angry?’” Ramsay recalled wistfully. “I said: ‘No, I can’t, f*** off’.”

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