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Title: Parky moves to ITV
Post by: sumner7 on April 28, 2004, 12:43:40 PM

The king of all chat shows, Michael Parkinson, is moving to ITV in a golden handshake deal. Parky decided to leave the BBC after they wanted to move his talk show to a different slot to accommodate the return of Match of the Day in August. Here's some more on the story...

Parky moves to ITV (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3660681.stm)

Title: Re: Parky moves to ITV
Post by: AccyD on April 28, 2004, 07:33:11 PM

Does anybody under 40 still watch that guy??

Title: Re: Parky moves to ITV
Post by: blobrana on April 29, 2004, 01:27:06 AM

Hum,
 i do (er, when there is nothing else on...)

[EXTRA INFO: I don`t really have a tv , just a [color=0000CC]tv-card[/color] for my computer, and it`s for background noise mostly (to stop surveillance equipment from eavesdropping ) as i surf ,dude...]

Title: Re: Parky moves to ITV
Post by: Mike_Amiga on April 29, 2004, 02:26:47 AM

Sure, I still watch him, the dude has an exellent interview technique that puts his guests at they're ease.

Title: Re: Parky moves to ITV
Post by: TheJackal on April 29, 2004, 12:59:28 PM

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Mike_Amiga wrote:
Sure, I still watch him, the dude has an exellent interview technique that puts his guests at they're ease.

Actually I'd have to disagree, he tend's to have a habit of not letting the guests finnish answering the question. Maybe because he has n questions to ask in a set time so he just steam rollers along.

Oh and what's with the BBC employing lots of people who can't talk properly, ie short tongued etc? After all it seems completely against the idea of a presenter, someone who can talk properly.

(Or perhaps there all inbread at the Beeb, and so hire their cousins :-D )

Title: Re: Parky moves to ITV
Post by: sumner7 on April 29, 2004, 04:18:12 PM

You've got to admit, though, MOTD is a lot better. The guy used to be a sports writer, so why is he throwing his toys out of the pram over something like this?

Title: Re: Parky moves to ITV
Post by: Vincent on April 29, 2004, 05:18:28 PM

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sumner7 wrote:
You've got to admit, though, MOTD is a lot better.

But Sportscene is even better :-D

Title: Re: Parky moves to ITV
Post by: that_punk_guy on April 29, 2004, 06:34:33 PM

I like Paxman. He makes me think of sage and onion stuffing.

Title: Re: Parky moves to ITV
Post by: CU_AMiGA on April 30, 2004, 03:28:47 PM

Jeremy Paxman an areshole who doesn't give his "guests" a chance to speak.

Title: Re: Parky moves to ITV
Post by: sumner7 on April 30, 2004, 05:09:46 PM

Paxman, Punkie? Don't you mean Paxo?  :-?