Michael Grade - New Chairman of the BBC

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

According to Radio 5 just now.

Looks like curtains for the new Doctor Who...

[Mr Flunchy]

How so?

[yak]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3591985.stm

Its on bbc news 24 as well...good christ.

[Mr Flunchy]

.....he's a cunt you know.

[Ambient Sheep]

How so?

Because.  This is shockingly horrible news.

[Cerys]

Ah, hell.  I tried, you know.  I'd be trying something a little more evil right now, only I suspect it'd be bad for my karma.

[Darrell]

Oh fuckitbuckets.

Bye Ecclestone.

[Rev]

I think he'll be great.

[fanny splendid]

On BBC breakfast this morning, they had the news about Michael Grade, and then they interviewed Christopher Ecclestone about his role in the forthcoming children's program, Dr Who.

I don't know if there's a connection.

[Purple Tentacle]

Michael Grade won't have any significant influence on programming.... that's the Director General and Head of Programming's job.

[Ambient Sheep]

Hopefully PT's probably right.  If Grade was DG it'd be a different matter.

However isn't there a rather more serious problem we should be worried about?  Considering that this IS a Chris Morris site?  This is a serious problem if CM ever wants to go back to the Beeb, and as Chairman of the Governors, Grade *will* be involved in taste and decency issues...

He probably hates The Goodies as well.  Although I have no actual knowledge about that.

Still it could have been worse.  It could have been John Birt.

[Manford Thirty-Sixborough]

I've also just discovered that he was the bastard who axed the Tripods, just before the final series that would have completed the story.

[Almost Yearly]

Michael Grade won't have any significant influence on programming.... that's the Director General and Head of Programming's job.

Hmm, because he's quite a hands-off kinda guy I heard :-(

[Jonny Jonny Butter Fiend]

The new BBC Chairman clarifies his position on Who.

Since Michael Grade was announced as the new BBC chairman this morning, Doctor Who fans have been nervously waiting to see what he has to say about the new series.

Famous Who-hater Grade suspended the original series in 1985 when he was Controller of BBC1. He has since gone on record about his dislike for the show and science-fiction in general. Speaking on ITV's This Morning show in 1999 he said of Doctor Who, "I hated it, it was awful."

Who fans can breathe a sigh of relief though. Interviewed this afternoon by BBC Radio Four, Grade said of the new series: "This time it's none of my business what happens to Doctor Who, as long as I don't have to watch it."

Phew!
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From www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho