GB News: a thread so you never have to watch it
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
"Every pub is a parliament" - well, if the hard right really believes that, a lot of things about our political process start to make a lot more sense
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Blimey, they have actually employed a professional sand-up comedian, that's upping their game from the amateur comedians they have employed so far.
No shit, Sherlock, we wouldn't expect otherwise, considering most of the 'guests' are other GBN presenters anyway, because you're struggling to get guests to go anywhere near the shambles.
GB News recruits comedian Mark Dolan amid plummeting viewers
There's already been a shake-up of the presenting line-up.
metro.co.uk
Oh my god, it's meant to be a pub! I thought it was the newsroom filterred through blurry camerawork or something!
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
I mean, it is marketing genius to have Farage down the pub, he often passed the "who would you have a pint with" test that comes up from time to time. His value is tainted - with his Trump relationship and post-UKIP slump - though this shouldn't be easily dismissed. He's a crank. He's a loon.. He's quite unaware of his many failings. But he's onto a personal winner here - drinking pints, talking about being anti-everything, that's exactly the voter base which delivered Brexit, and from the bar of the Old Bull and Bush to boot.
Savvy from GB News. Depressing like, I mean, it's possibly another career rejuvenation. But savvy.
Savvy from GB News. Depressing like, I mean, it's possibly another career rejuvenation. But savvy.
Hopefully Al Murray isn't feeling litigious because he cornered the market in racist pub landlord skits.
At this point Gbeebies has nothing left. No matter who they hire they'll just end up imitating satire that has existed now for years. They can't get past that
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Anyone fancy a new challenge?
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Blimey, more recruitment, when they rearranged the studio, did they find some cash hidden down the back of one of the sofas?
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Presumably one of their extreme right fundamentalist American billionaire backers has stuck their hand in their pocket to keep things afloat. As it ever was.
If I was looking to replace staff who were leaving in their droves I would also call the roles newly created. Sounds a lot more appealing to new candidates than we've basically got a recruitment revolving door.
I've not seen any of the channel and have no intention of watching it but am finding the commentary here amusing. What I don't understand is that there are hundreds of thousands of tiny youtube channels which are little more than a one person operation with a few thousand subscribers yet who manage decent sound and pictures. Decent editing as well. I know live TV presents a lot of different problems but I don't understand why this is all so technically awful.
They have a reasonable budget and seemingly hired in some people with experience. I don't understand why the quality is shitter than Barry on youtube reviewing super strength lager from his local tab shop.
I've not seen any of the channel and have no intention of watching it but am finding the commentary here amusing. What I don't understand is that there are hundreds of thousands of tiny youtube channels which are little more than a one person operation with a few thousand subscribers yet who manage decent sound and pictures. Decent editing as well. I know live TV presents a lot of different problems but I don't understand why this is all so technically awful.
They have a reasonable budget and seemingly hired in some people with experience. I don't understand why the quality is shitter than Barry on youtube reviewing super strength lager from his local tab shop.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Having done a fair bit of research (har) lately about podcasts, I think that the issue with GB News looks a lot like the issue with a lot of n00b podcasters - because they don't know what they don't know, everything looks straightforward, and it becomes very easy to assume that you can just plug a few bits in together and it'll all work just fine.
My hunch is that when GB News started up, it didn't bother hiring in good-quality professionals, but thought they could do it all on a shoestring. Now they're finding out why those expensive-looking, hard-to-hire types are expensive and hard to hire - because they're doing a job that they know is nowhere near as straightforward as the idiots behind GB News thought.
I've seen the same thing loads of times in IT - as a contractor, there were a few times when I was hired in to "make Joe in Purchasing's spreadsheet-based stock control system" work. Usually the contract ended abruptly when I pointed out that they were going to have to completely start from scratch, because Joe in Purchasing's solution was doomed from the start, and they were going to need to make some investment in database servers, and proper software. On one occasion I know of, the contractor who was hired in to replace me was given exactly the same brief, and. like me, lasted a couple of months before either he baled, or was got rid of.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
You fuck with Joe in Purchasing, you fuck with us all 
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
The over night viewing figures gives Farage's show 96k viewers, with Dewberry in that time slot, it was down to just 7.5k.
So, they will be pleased with that, until the novelty wears off, and viewing figures fall off a cliff.
So, they will be pleased with that, until the novelty wears off, and viewing figures fall off a cliff.
not a trot
Well-Known Member
Pints of piss.
A good question
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Watneys Red Barrel was probably the worst pint I ever tasted , utter bilge water.
David Clapson
Well-Known Member
It's all so pompous. Fucking idiots. You're not going anywhere!
at least I've got some proper beer in though.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Once you’ve poured the dregs out of one of them at 2 in the morning to get a last glass and gulped down a load of cig buts you never forget
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
not-bono-ever
meh
hes a lightweight. I has the misfortune to sit beside him and timmy wetherspoon in St Johns one day. they were chewing their way through a couple of bottles of rose piss and being a bit loud. I would have given him a thick earful of bad language but i was in respectful company. PS St Johns is shite if you dont like meat
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Is that meant to look like 'rage' on purpose ?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
It’s almost as if it’s part of his name!
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Wow. Thanks for pointing that out, I've never noticed.
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