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The Guest List: New Commission

Fronted by Rob Brydon, The Guess List is a new six x 40 minute Saturday night Comedy Entertainment series where two contestants compete against each other with the help of famous faces from the worlds of sport, music, TV or film.

Commissioned by Charlotte Moore, Controller, BBC One, Mark Linsey, Controller, Entertainment Commissioning and Alan Tyler Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning, the series will be produced by 12 Yard Productions. The Executive Producers are Michael Mannes, Paul McGettigan, Rhys John and Alan Tyler for the BBC.

Rob Brydon says: “I loved making the pilot for The Guess List and can’t wait to get started on the first series.”

Charlotte Moore, Controller, BBC One, says: “More Rob on BBC One can only be a good thing. It's a really funny show and an exciting addition to Saturday nights.”

Andy Culpin, Managing Director of 12 Yard, says: “We are so excited to be working with a talent as big as Rob Brydon on this new Saturday night series. His hilarious interaction with the famous faces and members of the public takes the show to another level.”

Your money.

 

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Look for 'new commissions': this is a fleshed out one - with Moore to the front again:

The Secrets: New Commission

BBC One Controller Charlotte Moore and Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning Ben Stephenson have commissioned Working Title Television to produce The Secrets, a 5 x 30 minute Drama series for BBC One.

The series will pair emerging Writers Nick Payne and Elinor Cook with established acting talent such as Sarah Solemani.

The Executive Producers are Juliette Howell for Working Title Television and Lucy Richer for the BBC.

 

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The blurb for the secrets actually says:

The strand, which will energise creativity and support new talent

 

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Alan Davies Après-Ski: New Commission

This is real - alan davis goes to people in the winter olympics, wan't it cold, you're mental. Can i have 100 grand now?

Did this happen?

 

[frogwoman]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10459224/Joanna-Dennehy-The-call-of-the-underworld.html

 

[weepiper]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10459224/Joanna-Dennehy-The-call-of-the-underworld.html

Those who are born in squalor may never escape it because they do not know or cannot imagine anything different. Some, no doubt, are thrust into squalor by circumstance; but others achieve it as some kind of guarantee or certificate of authenticity. They wear squalor as a badge of honour, a Victoria Cross won against the odds during the battle against respectability.

Christ.

 

[frogwoman]

But just as Stretch’s height will come to seem less freakish as the average height of each succeeding generation increases, so will the behaviour of Joanna Dennehy seem less exceptional where youthful rebelliousness is the convention, and an anti-bourgeois bohemian attitude to life – such as I once had – is the norm.

Yes, Joanna Dennehy's crimes are a result of an 'anti-bourgeois bohemian attitude to life'

 

[weepiper]

He's got a cheek talking about squalor. Poisonous sewer that he is.

 

[treelover]

Your money.

There is only a few people I don't like on TV, Jonathan Ross, Rob Brydon is another.

 

[treelover]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10459224/Joanna-Dennehy-The-call-of-the-underworld.html

Although he is occasionally accused of being a pessimist and a misanthrope, his defenders praise his persistently conservative philosophy, which they describe as being anti-ideological, sceptical, rational and empiricist. In 2010, Daniel Hannan wrote that Dalrymple's work "takes pessimism about human nature to a new level. Yet its tone is never patronising, shrill or hectoring. Once you get past the initial shock of reading about battered wives, petty crooks and junkies from a non-Left perspective, you find humanity and pathos".[

His Wikipedia is not exactly balanced, time for a challenge?

 

[treelover]

I can’t say that I have myself been completely immune from these shallow and romantic ideas. I remember thinking, as a young man, such absurd thoughts as that baldness in men was a physical sign or consequence of having compromised in cowardly fashion with the demands of the world for the sake of peace, quiet and comfort. One’s hair fell out as a result: it was the sign of a guilty, or at least unquiet, conscience. Now that I have gone bald myself, I know different.

Bizzarro!

 

[treelover]

While youth would once have had its day and then grown up, we live at a time of unprecedented nostalgia for youth and its narcissistic rebelliousness. As the population ages, so youth becomes ever more desirable. Perhaps the most visible symbol of this is the rather pathetic refusal of former rock stars to admit that they are no longer 18, and to dress or comport themselves differently from how they did then. Another sign was Tony Blair’s callow commitment to youthfulness as the touchstone of virtue and wisdom. We are about to enter the first age of the adolescent geriatric, or the geriatric adolescent.

I think he is right here, anyone for a round of Call Of Duty?

 

[frogwoman]

Bizzarro!

 

[butchersapron]

He allowed my mate to get beaten to fuck by screws in Winchester. Lovely fluffy conservative.

 

[frogwoman]

What's his real name? That can't be it surely?

 

[treelover]

Is he a relly of the other Dalrymple?

 

[TruXta]

No, it's just a pseudonym.

 

[Balbi]

Good, I quite like William Dalrymple. This bloke reads like Quilliam Dalrymple.

 

[el-ahrairah]

i saw this and thought it needed to go somewhere on urban. so i'm putting it here....

 

[treelover]

Rebecca Lush is still speaking out, bit more genteel these days but still there.

 

[DaveCinzano]

i saw this and thought it needed to go somewhere on urban. so i'm putting it here....

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Interesting - especially as the reporter's name rang a bell - she was the Mirror's Special Projects Editor to whom Steven Nott revealed ihs concerns about the ‘default code’ voicemail hack in the late 90s, as well as the sister-in-law of Sean Hoare, the now-dead Sun/NOTW journo.

A marvel of juxtaposition and not much else, that article!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Christ.

I'd forgotten what a poisonous turd Dalrymple is.

 

[frogwoman]

I'd forgotten what a poisonous turd Dalrymple is.

Is that actually his name? It can't be can it?

 

[TruXta]

Is that actually his name? It can't be can it?

Again, it's a pseudonym. Real name is Anthony Daniels.

 

[belboid]

Again, it's a pseudonym. Real name is Anthony Daniels.

C3PO??!!

 

[TruXta]

C3PO??!!

By Gove, you're right!

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[ViolentPanda]

She needs to check her phobic surname privilege!

 

[el-ahrairah]

she's got me

 

[Pickman's model]

she's got me

bang to rights