Did You See That

Unless you have been living on another planet, you can’t have escaped the furore surrounding Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand. Yes, I think they were wrong but what a feeding frenzy over what wasn’t really that big a deal and should have not been aired by the producers. Radio 2 presenters have been giving their reaction and a devastated looking Jeremy Vine says he says he will be interested to see how Jonathan Ross can come back from this - with his tone inferring that he shoudn’t - and saying he hopes Ross has apologised to the now ex-controller on whose watch this happened.

An edgy comedian pushing the limits sometimes needs to be reined in but I don’t think that in itself damages the BBC’s credibility. What does do enormous damage to the BBC’s credibility is when serious programming - such as the Election night coverage - reduced to an absolute joke by Jeremy Vine and the computer graphics department with cringemaking displays that embarrass us all. So on the topic of apologising, Mr Vine, how about you say sorry for making the once might Beeb look absurd with your awful election night performance?

Just in case you missed it…

Jonathan Ross had the pleasure of being joined by Jerry Seinfeld on his Friday night chat show. It was simply brilliant: a tour de force from the hilarious Mr Seinfeld.

The BBC has selected  some clips - not the best - for its official YouTube channel. Hopefully someone will post a full copy soon.

Casino Royale star Daniel Craig appeared on the Jonathan Ross chat show last nite (BBC1). Craig has revitalised the Bond franchise and Jonathan Ross is movie buff, and presenter of BBC’s “Film” programme, so it should have been a fascinating conversation - except it would have been if Daniel Craig had anything to say… at all. What a let down - the guy was virtually monosyllabic.

Thanks to Jonathan Ross, there’s always a few funny moments though. On talking abot green screen acting, Craig said it was hard to talk to an empty space. “Are you talking about me?” asked Jonathan… “at least I’m keeping my end of the conversation up!”

I wonder if he’s just painfully shy, or maybe objected to the ribbing he got (Ross labelled his face “craggy”) or didn’t care for being the object of Russell Brand’s desires. It’s a shame because he’s clearly a great actor… so maybe he should have tried to act like an entertaining chat show guest?

Jonathan Ross - possibly the funniest guy on TV? - met his match on Friday night when he interviewed Janice Dickinson, known as a judge on America’s Top Model, and the self proclaimed first supermodel. Check out the clips from YouTube to see the best 15 minutes of TV this week.