H2 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Should the Beeb have sacked JR, should he have been man enough to resign, is a 12 week ban correct, should there have been no action. Given that others have resigned over the matter, at far greater personal expense that Ross would suffer - what do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makateer Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 This is the most dull 'scandal' ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slashishere Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Time for this country to grow some balls again. One of the 'victims' in this claims she just wants it to be over and then 24 hours later sells her story to the countrys biggest rag. Get over it FFS!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N User Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 He was a guest, therefore wasn't being paid by the BBC for being there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2 Posted October 30, 2008 Author Share Posted October 30, 2008 This is the most dull 'scandal' ever. Can't be that dull, you opened the thread, unless you are really really really bored tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mitch Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 He should be shot, IMO. total waste of money, he's a smarmy git and what he did was totally unacceptible. Mind you, I'd give her one too. But i would tell the old dear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victorian Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 forget this load of cobblers, the real scandal is ross's remuneration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2 Posted October 30, 2008 Author Share Posted October 30, 2008 He was a guest, therefore wasn't being paid by the BBC for being there. Intersting view. Does this mean if you went into your work one day, as a guest, because you were on holiday, say for a presentation for a colleague leaving or something and behave inappropraitely, that would be okay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hate_hibs Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 People are getting carried away with this, they were only having a laugh.. No need for them to axe his show.. Plus it was some thing good to watch on a friday nite.. Jonathan Ross should take his show over to another channel, and that will get it right up the bbc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makateer Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Can't be that dull, you opened the thread, unless you are really really really bored tonight! Hey, not knocking your thread. I mean the press reaction to the whole thing has been extremely overblown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJambo Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 its a joke gone wrong. mountains and molehills. would be a shame for it to ruin jonathon woss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droid Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 jr was never going to be sacked he's the bbc's golden boy on around 6 million a year...sack him and he just ****es off to itv/channel4!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppercrutch Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Where is the 'Who gives a flying ****' option ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victorian Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Where is the 'Who gives a flying ****' option ? i think russell brand already took THAT option fella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boaby Ewing Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Where is the 'Who gives a flying ****' option ? With you on that. For what it's worth, I will ball your granddaughter if you're straight enough to ever produce kids who don't turn out to be raging lezzas. Mods, I'm sorry. I'll send flowers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Where is the 'Who gives a flying ****' option ? Quite right. The BBC is now publicly flogging itself by giving this non-story the premium in news airtime. A joke in poor taste yes, but is this story more important than an earthquake in Pakistan that killed scores of people or the biggest American election in living memory? I don't think so. A typical middle-England over reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppercrutch Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Quite right. The BBC is now publicly flogging itself by giving this non-story the premium in news airtime. A joke in poor taste yes, but is this story more important than an earthquake in Pakistan that killed scores of people or the biggest American election in living memory? I don't think so. A typical middle-England over reaction. I hadn't even heard that. Sums it up really. Dumbed down Britain. Mission complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3283320/Pakistan-earthquake-Thousands-displaced-as-death-toll-rises-to-300.html Up to 600 people dead. If that had happened in Europe or America, I wonder if we'd be hearing so much about the futures of celebrities and station controllers. Despicable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Berwick Jambo Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Give him a payrise, the guy has balls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stawberry2 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Time for this country to grow some balls again.One of the 'victims' in this claims she just wants it to be over and then 24 hours later sells her story to the countrys biggest rag. Get over it FFS!! Was saying the same this morning, how much did the paper pay her? I for one had never heard of her before this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi must stay Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Give him a payrise, the guy has balls a payrise? He already gets ?18 million. Nah he should probably have been sacked because he arguably did more than Brand and he's had to go because of it, but his chat show is usually great as is his film show so im glad they have decided not to sack him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Hopefully they'll bring in Mark Kermode to replace Ross at Film 2008, he *usually* knows what he's talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tott Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 BBC are in a no win situation. They sack him. Rival snaps him up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 ?6mil a year is mental. For a chat show and a radio show. Get him launched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boaby Ewing Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 BBC are in a no win situation.They sack him. Rival snaps him up. It's a weird one though... I quite like Ross on the beeb, but I wouldn't go out of my way to watch him on a smaller channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmiyaRomanova Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Given editorial compliance guidelines at the Beeb, and the extent to which programming is monitored prior to broadcast, I can't help but suspect that in allowing this to go to air, Brand and Ross have been set up for a fall. Quite why and by who I don't know, but something smells a tad off... Still, I'm not that enamoured by either of them. Who cares.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Grimes Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 No. This entire "scandal" is utter baws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makateer Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Courtesy of b3ta.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Shin Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 no one shouldve been sacked 1, he did feck her , so only telling the truth 2, show wasnt live , couldve edited it if seen as that bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig R Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Where's the option for "he did a little wrong and should have had his wrists slapped and no more"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogle98 Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Free Brand and Ross !!! Its an outrage Im starting a campaign to rival the free arthur fowler one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gershwin Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Gunge him. In ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig_ Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 While the cash Ross gets is nothing short of scandalous, if they sacked him they'd just spend it on even more lavish, bodice-ripping period dramas anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
husref musemic Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Whatever your views (mines is, storm and tea cup) however the lifeless, humourless f ckers who complained should be rounded up and pushed over there beloved white cliffs the mail / express reading *****. Band wagon jumping on idiots, the only people who have the right to complain are the two who phoned during the show, the blue rinse home county transcript readers should be shot...ocht a bit ott but it is fecking rediculous. why isn't real news covered any more and who's driving these type of pointless media driven campaigns ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beverley Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 i haven't been arsed enough about it to listen to the thing so won't comment much on it other than to say the girl in question is probably grateful for the publicity. not many knew who she was a couple of weeks ago. HOWEVER if i was getting calls like that on my home phone i doubt i'd be impressed, and given the fact he is pretty old now and his missus is ill in hospital i think it was a slightly cruel joke to play on andrew sachs. now, the crux of the matter is this was not a live show and if seemed to be in any way offensive, it ought to have been edited out of the show. the blame therefore lies at the feet of the producer/editor of the show far more than at the feet of ross or brand when it aired there were only a couple of complaints and i believe that was due to the language used rather than the phone call prank itself, so its mock anger from most. its been blown way out of proportion i think and no, ross or brand ought not lose their jobs or be sacked the only thing about brand i really find offensive is the fact he thinks he's funny and the fact he's always on the box. i don't like him, so i don't watch him.... pity more people can't do the same thing. the "off" button is there for a reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arse 'Friends' Dyslexic? Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Hopefully the situation is like this... (Warning - contains swearing) http://www.imeem.com/people/UoV1-v/music/W7aICevo/im_alan_partridge_series_1_conetract/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Weathers Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 I think Jonathan Ross is pretty funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Templeton Peck Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Does anyone else think that the people who will come out worst from this is the Sachs family. Brand and Ross will be back. Christ, Angus Deaton got back on the BBC. Hiring Max Clifford wasn't the best move for the granddaughter. Worse has yet to come out in the papers for her as she has drawn attention to herself. I doubt that will be reported in the Daily Mail though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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