Stand-ins

According to today’s Daily Mail Watchdog host Matt Allwright will present The One Show after Adrian Chiles' departure, with comedian Paul Merton taking over the Thursday slot.

Things are looking up.

 

 

 

 

I am looking forward to the change and the prospect of more stand-ins. Among other things it will test the talents of CB.

I am not too sure about Matt Allwright because in my experience he has a tendency to be silly.

But I look forward to Paul Merton. He has shown that he can be funny or serious depending upon the needs of the show.

Does anyone have a suggestion for stand-ins, particularly for the bizarre?

Here is the link to the DM article.

Chris Evans

I’ve been thinking. I have never enjoyed any of Chris Evans' programmes. He irritates me. But I have to honest and say that he will probably punch some life into TOS. Which it needs.

What the well dressed man is wearing.

Off he goes then with a hoppity-skip to buy an alarm clock.

As ever the epitome of sartorial elegance - A real babe magnet.

Was it purely coincidental that the photographer pictured him beside a skip.

Adrian Chiles finally rides off into the sunset, run out of town by the Sheriff

  

Adrian Chiles is said to have told Christine Bleakley that, if she was his friend, she would refuse to present The One Show with anyone else.

Certainly it was his view - and his view was put to the BBC - that they had better not dare team his Christine with another man. [Source DM]

What a scheming little git.

Such arrogance to ask someone else to endanger their own career in order to further his spat with his bosses.

The BBC has called his bluff. So, he flounces off to ITV.

AC desperately wants to be a star. He strives to become bigger that the Show.  He failed with TOS.

A Career Change For Adrian Chiles?

Our chap in the foreground resembles AC with his TOS studio herberts lurking at the back. Or am I losing my mind.

[Picture courtesy of  ‘Michael’s Bookshop’ , Ramsgate].

Dear Dr Ruth….

Dear Doctor Ruth,

My problem is that I find it refreshing and exciting to have new TOS presenters in my life. I discover that I do not miss Auntie Adrian and Christine. Worse still, I am excited by the impending presence of Chris Evans on Fridays. Does this make me a fickle and promiscuous TV TOSSER One Show viewer?

WHITHER TOS?

A BBC source said recently about the future of TOS: “There has been a lot of talking about what happens if entertainment is saved for Fridays, does it change the show too much? It's still being discussed but the fact is that Adrian will not be required on Fridays.”

So far so good for Friday; but we still need to take care of the rest of the week. Maybe they can give Auntie Adrian a permanent rest from TOS.

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Our Daughters in Prague in the 70’s humouring their father, the would be photographer.

There was very little traffic during the communist times.

Ramsgate Sea Front Once Upon A Time

It is a glorious day today. with a clear blue sky and no wind. The picture above is how Ramsgate once looked during the summer. It is not like that now and, I fear, never will be again.

But at least we have been spared a visit from TOS. That privilege went next door to Margate. We did not get Auntie Adrian & Christine but there are other people who have lived in Ramsgate. Here are a few of them:

Jenny Marx – eldest daughter of Karl Marx, Elizabeth Fry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,  John Le Mesurier, Wilkie Collins, Duke Of Wellington,       Frank Muir, Vincent Van Gogh & Queen Victoria.

Ramsgate will not miss AC & CB.

TOS in Margate

Margate Lido Then

 

 

 

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Margate Lido Today

 

 

 

 

 

CB & FL ?

 

 

 

 

 

I enjoyed last night’s TOS. Or rather what little of it that I had the stomach to watch. The duel attack of Omid Djalli’s threat to go off PC and fornicating rabbits sent auntie Adrian into a spasm of hot flushes.

I live next door to Margate. This once great town is now run down and shabby. It has pretentions to culture in that the council is building a ‘Turner Centre’ to display modern art. Turner once lived and painted in the town. The building of the Turner Centre has been mismanaged by the council. It is in the opinion of many a waste of public money that could have been put to better use elsewhere. To sum up: Margate is tatty and cheap. It wastes its time on pointless pseudo artistic projects that will fail. Bearing all this mind, why should anyone be surprised to discover that TOS has an affinity for Margate. It is Adrian and Christine's kind of town. For there they can feel superior.