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Ideal got axed. A lot of people are upset that the plug has been pulled after however many years and about 5 series. Apparently it got it's highest ever viewing figures of wait for it.......536,000! Fuckin hell I know it's a BBC3 show but I mean it's hardly a tidal wave of success is it. Little Britain, a show I couldn't watch and I certainly didn't laugh much at, was getting to be fair, ridiculously big audience figures so it was switched to BBC2 and these figures went up to 8 figures I'm sure, so a fat Geordie with a less than four figure per week readership can't really complain, put your goals on the table Supermac used to say. I know also it's not fair to compare viewing figures of today with viewing figures of the 1970s when there was only three analogue channels however things do come to an end and I think, after several years of doing okay, Johnny and co have had a good run and it's time to walk away and do something else.
Here's a couple of quotes I lifted from Chortle, (I don't care, he lifts press release quotes from me and implies that I gave him an interview)
‘Thank you BBC,’ trade magazine Broadcast reports him sayin. ‘When the numbers have never been higher, you’ve cancelled us.
‘I’m being fired by the man who commissioned Kerry Katona… so I’m proud to do anything else that you’re not involved in.’
To be fair I'd say that the bloke probably wasn't working on comedy when he comissioned Kerry Katona and probably wasn't at the BBC but it is nice to see someone spitting back at people who mystifyingly get jobs commissioning comedy. There are good people out there but there are so many fucknuts who a lot of the time worked in commercial radio or are just BBC former corridor watchers that've worked their way up and now are making decisions like pulling Bill Bailey's fantastic comedy show after 1 series back in the late 90s. Imagine how many great shows Bill could've made by now 13 years later, but there you go Sophie and Jeremy know best with their 'Touch Me I'm Karen Taylor', 'Little Miss Jocelyn' and their 'Horne and Corden make cunts of themselves for 6 weeks'.
Also why is Johnny so pissed off? He was accepting an award when he was making his mouth go. I do like Johnny, he's one of the nice blokes in this business and he's also a complete one off, a footnote in comedy history and if I had to tell my grandchildren that I worked with one person, he would be the name. But when you accept awards, do the chat shows, go on comic relief and generally be a celebrity, you have to accept that the bastards will piss on your chips one day, which is precisely what the BBC have done.
John Cleese was interviewed by the One Show last night. He's got nowt to lose, he doesn't have to curry favour from the Beeb. Therefore he says what he wants. He said that Monty Python wouldn't be made today, they wouldn't have took the risk like the old fuddy duddies running the place in 1969 did. No one trusts their guts as to what's funny anymore because the BBC is weighed down with marketing groups, social strata codes and pitching dynamics. I've made all them up but it sounds good. Q5,6,7,8,9 and 'There's Alot Of It About' wouldn't be made either. Neither would 'Till Death Do Us Part', 'The Goodies' or most definitely 'The Young Ones'.
All is not lost though. What Vegas and co should do is do the next series on Youtube or do that Foster's Lager thing and get people to watch it on their comedy website, like what the Fast Show, Vic and Bob and Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge have done. The thing is, I suspect that Fosters won't be that interested because those aforementioned did have huge followings and are proper laugh out loud funny and have a place in the heart of this great nation with a great sense of humour and silliness however Ideal is comedy drama and had a cult following. Nowt wrong with that but when you get a cult following, don't expect it to buy you a luxurious property in Dubai. There's only sacked Newcastle managers that take the huff with the BBC that can afford that.
Anyway I'm off to do boring shite like write, write and chase up money. Speak tomorrow. Sorry Moz, no more drugs.
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