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How This Morning ‘ambushed’ David Cameron
It’s all over the online news – and will be all over the headlines tomorrow – Phillip Schofield handed prime minster David Cameron a list of suspected Tory paedophiles during a live interview on ITV’s daytime show “This Morning”. With the Jimmy Savile investigation in full swing, the show was following up rumours that senior [...]
HOW WOULD YOU PRODUCE THE BIGGEST RIVER PAGEANT SINCE 1662?
I could rant. I could jump on the BBC-bashing bandwagon but that would be too easy. Let’s instead offer up Ten Top TV Lessons to Learn From the BBC’s Production of The Biggest River Pageant Since 1662. So much more positive and constructive! A Presenter is only as good as the Producer/Production put behind [...]
Why You Need Confidence to Work in TV
Britain’s Got Talent’s Jonathan Antoine, opera singer extraordinaire has won something far more important than first place in the UK’s favourite talent show. Losing to a dog should not bother him one iota. The bigger prize that Jonathan has won is confidence and with that attribute the world is his oyster. Without confidence you will [...]
What Makes Russell Grant a Great TV Personality?
The nation’s darling, astrologer Russell Grant, finally leaves BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. Actually that should read astrologer and entertainer, Russell Grant because he is as much the latter as the former. I have known Russell for many years, working together on the likes of ITV’s ‘This Morning’, and as far as I am concerned [...]
Sex, Lies and Production Teams
Mike Tindall, rugby-playing husband of Zara Phillips, the Queen’s granddaughter, has been in the tabloid press looking overly cosy with a female friend while on tour in New Zealand. On being challenged over his behaviour as a married man, he is alleged to have said ‘”what goes on tour, stays on tour”*. Now there’s a [...]
Accepting Freebies in the Workplace
Sir Paul Stephenson resigned as Scotland Yard Commissioner at the weekend after finding himself embroiled in the phone hacking scandal via his professional relationship with Neil Wallis, the former News of the World executive. And one of his big mistakes was accepting generous freebies – on this occasion a lengthy stay at Champneys Health spa [...]
Reporter tells all about NOTW phone hacking scandal
Thanks to my mate Trish for pointing this interview out. Obviously I should be watching daytime TV to get the real stories behind the headlines! ITV’s ‘This Morning‘ interviews Paul McMullan, former features executive on the News of The World, alongside Anne Diamond, and gets a very frank and honest appraisal of the situation – carrier bags [...]
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Phillip Schofield, David Cameron and THAT List
Otherwise entitled, The Production, The Presenter & The Press Part 2 (part one is here!). Was Phillip Schofield to blame for the way in which ITV’s This Morning programme handled the interview with Prime Minister David Cameron? I won’t rehash the details – they are available all over the Internet if you want to [...]