Here's a quote to start your day:
Milne told the paper: "It just seems to me that the television service has largely been run by women for the last four to five years and they don't seem to have done a great job of work." Describing a discussion over lunch with new BBC chairman Michael Grade, he said: "I told him I thought the programmes were terrible. "There was no innovation; constant makeovers and far too many cookery and gardening programmes. Dumb, dumb, dumb," he said. "I think the BBC has to pull its socks up quite considerably." Milne defended his statements to the paper, saying he was not biased against women in general.Milne ran the BBC for 5 years in the 80s. Pulling socks up. People actually say that?
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Mike - October 8, 2004 8:04 AM
If Milne's the guy who put the kaibash on the third season of the "Tripods" sci-fi trilogy in the mid-80s, then a curse upon him.
Alan - October 8, 2004 8:08 AM
I was trying to see what television wizardry he was responsible for, but could not find a good BBC TV archive. There is <i>nothing</i> good on the internet anymore...
SayNay? - October 8, 2004 8:42 AM
Are the same people running the CBC?
Alan - October 8, 2004 8:51 AM
Didn't you hear? There are no people left at the CBC, just old movie and <i>This Hour Has 22 Minutes</i> rerun bots and Brian Williams. He's not human. He's made of cardboard.
Nils Ling - October 8, 2004 12:37 PM
Would that we could have good cooking and gardening shows instead of smarmy, used-to-be-funny fake news shows and old men telling penis jokes ...
I saw Brian Williams yesterday at John Cerutti's funeral ... they interviewed him about Cerutti and he choked up. In that one human moment, he grew ten times in my humble estimation ...
Alan - October 8, 2004 1:00 PM
That is a rotten trick using such an honourable thing to stifle my juvenile hunour on this thread.
Nils Ling - October 8, 2004 2:03 PM
Maybe Brian can lend buddy the money to fly to Moncton to pick up his lotto win ...