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Should Brand and Ross be sacked?

No.

Well, sort of no.

The ill-advised broadcast of rude messages left on Andrew Sachs’ answer machine was the fault of the programme’s producers, not its presenters.

The faceless people will probably get the boot.

But Sachs-gate is about more than all of that really.

The whole story has become a media circus (the lead story on yesterday’s PM for goodness sake) because no-one’s sure why these two presenters are on Radio 2 in the first place.

If Chris Moyles had done this on Radio 1, it would have been shrugged off and forgotten about within a day or two, with no real suggestion of sackings.

But Radio 2 is supposed to be the more mature sibling. This incident just proved that the pair are in the wrong place – any non-Daily Mail reader who heard the show would have found it to be pretty entertaining, despite the occasionally offensive content (which was actually no worse than a typical episode of Have I Got News For You).

They shouldn’t be sacked – they should be given a pay cut and put somewhere else.

They’re too old for Radio 1 (which already has an ‘age’ problem – it attracts too many parents), so maybe they should become the main attractions on the already edgy 6Music?

: 28 Oct 2008 13:47 |  Tags: Andrew Sachs BBC Jonathan Ross Media Radio Radio 2 Russell Brand |  Comments (21) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

A Bafta Nominee

I’d like to nominate Ricky Gervais as the host of next year’s Bafta awards.

He’s made three jokes. They all got huge laughs.

That’s three more than this year’s host, Jonathan Ross.

Who is probably more expensive, and appalling value for money.

: 11 Feb 2007 22:25 |  Tags: Baftas Film Jonathan Ross Ricky Gervais Television |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem