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Farewell Big Brother - for now at least

So Big Brother is to be axed from Channel 4 according to an The Sun. Let's hope the news is true. The show has really run its course. That has been said several times in the past but with ratings falling every year it was a surprise that Channel 4...

Posted Aug 26 2009, 09:25 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 8 comment(s)

Filed under: Big Brother, Channel 4, ITV1, Sky, celebrities, celebrity Big Brother

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Jade Goody and the reality TV PR bandwagon of death

Last year I said something pretty mean about Jade Goody and I'm sorry. I wrote she had PR cancer and then it turned out to be real. My bad, but even as she lies wasting away it appears the PR bit was right. I just read Shilpa Shetty is making a final...

Posted Mar 18 2009, 10:12 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 6 comment(s)

Filed under: Big Brother, India, reality TV, Celebrity Sellout, PR, Jade Goody

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Does Channel 4 have a right to exist?

Does it? A god given right? I'm not sure it does. Channel 4 needs to accept facts, embrace the future, and realise with few options left its future lies with Five. Looking at Channel 4 what's clear is that you can watch a lot of what it broadcasts...

Posted Jan 19 2009, 11:17 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Big Brother, Channel 4, Five, Rtl

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Cute Overload and other web time wasting

The New York Times today has a piece on a web institution: CuteOverload.com (a slice of heaven on your desktop). It gets as many visitors a day as political gossip blog Wonkett not to mention many other sites. The way the paper has it the site is an antidote...

Posted Aug 20 2008, 09:15 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Apple, Big Brother, The New York Times, cute websites

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Jade Goody has PR cancer

I have to admit when I first saw the front page of the Sun today with the "Jade Has Cancer" headline, I immediately thought "that's bound to be PR cancer, not real cancer". This thought suggests one of two really quite disturbing...

Posted Aug 19 2008, 09:10 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 12 comment(s)

Filed under: Big Brother, India, reality TV, The Sun, PR, celebrity

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Vote, vote vote for Kelvin MacKenzie

Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie is "90 per cent certain" to put his name forward" and run against Conservative MP and egomaniac David Davis. I really hope he does. MacKenzie said yesterday that: "I have been associated with The...

Posted Jun 14 2008, 11:38 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Big Brother, bomb scare, Labour, News Corporation, News International, Rupert Murdoch, The Sun, Conservatives

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Channel 4 must act and remove bully

With almost 400 complaints about bullying housemate Alexandra, Channel 4 is showing itself full of weakness and indecision by its failure to remove her from the house. We know why it is dithering. Last night's show pulled in a combined 3m-plus viewers...

Posted Jun 12 2008, 11:14 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Big Brother, reality TV

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In the 80s

It must be 80s week TV week (kind of), but for different and diverse reasons. First there was the return of the truly awful 'Gladiators' snapped up by Sky One (for the love of god why?) and the sad demise of everyone's (ahem) favourite TV...

Posted Jan 31 2008, 09:20 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Big Brother, ITV, reality TV

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Big Brother returns

Tonight, more Big Brother shenanigans begin with a re-tweaked format that sees what are being described as "pure prodigies" take to the stage with various stars lending their hand. OK, if you insist, but really Channel 4, rather than acting...

Posted Jan 03 2008, 03:38 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Big Brother, Channel 4

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Big Brother day 91

Is it really that long since a fresh-faced bunch of would-be z-listers entered the house? Three months? It hardly seems like the same show that PHD co-founder Jonathan Durden was in. He left the show two months ago. Somebody called Emily Parr left three...

Posted Aug 30 2007, 09:37 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Big Brother

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Durden leaves the house...or not

It seems it's over before it even began. Jonathan Durden is to leave the 'Big Brother' house after coming to an end of a personal journey after a week and a half. Clearly journeys are not what they used to be, but the PHD founder has clearly...

Posted Jun 28 2007, 08:44 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Big Brother

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Jonathan Durden in the house

As we talked about this on Friday afternoon as the first tip offs came the view really was that if anyone from the industry was going in to the Big Brother house it was going to be PHD founder Jonathan Durden. He's probably chasing the Virgin account...

Posted Jun 18 2007, 11:14 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Big Brother

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The end of Big Brother?

How much more of this can anyone take? Another series of 'Big Brother’ and another racism row. This time involving 19-year-old Tory girl, Emily Parr, who called a black housemate the 'N' word. Yes, she might not have done it maliciously...

Posted Jun 07 2007, 10:33 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 11 comment(s)

Filed under: Big Brother, Carphone Warehouse, Channel 4

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Big Brother - an apology

Last night's 'Big Brother' began with an apology, not for the tabloid heaven that was to follow, but for what we had already been subjected to. If Gordon Brown was having second thoughts about how to deal with the budget deficit, he should...

Posted May 31 2007, 10:14 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Big Brother, Channel 4

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Sun does Britishness

In a striking front page today The Sun tackles Britishness.The effects of 'Celebrity Big Brother' are still rippling out and today The Sun has suspended Page 3 to replace it with a double page spread supporting its striking front page, which tackles...

Posted Jan 30 2007, 09:58 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Big Brother, newspapers, The Sun

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Farewell Big Brother - for now at least

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Jade Goody and the reality TV PR bandwagon of death

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Does Channel 4 have a right to exist?

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Cute Overload and other web time wasting

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Jade Goody has PR cancer

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Vote, vote vote for Kelvin MacKenzie

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Channel 4 must act and remove bully

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In the 80s

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Big Brother returns

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Big Brother day 91

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Durden leaves the house...or not

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Jonathan Durden in the house

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The end of Big Brother?

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Big Brother - an apology

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Sun does Britishness