Thursday night, after the BBC suspended him from his Radio 2 Saturday night show for the infamous prank calls to Andrew "Manuel" Sachs, along with co-conspirator Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand made his first TV appearance after the incident with the pre-taped season premiere of "Russell Brand's Ponderland" on Channel 4, which is basically his stand-up with old TV and home video clips interrupting. The show pulled higher ratings in its late-night time slot at 10:30 p.m. than his first season last year, with 1.2M watching (counting in time-shift channel C4+1), but couldn't beat BBC1's topical discussion show "Question Time," originating from the U.S. and dealing with the U.S. elections:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/31/tvratings-russell-brand Brand was also supposed to appear on a pre-taped edition of the BBC2 pop music panel quiz "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" Thursday night, but thanks to his suspension another episode was substituted. Meanwhile, Ross' "Friday Night" talk show started its unplanned 12- week vacation Friday night with the move "Speed" in its place--and BBC1 pulling half the viewers that it got with Ross the week before: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/03/tvratings-bbc It looks like Radio 2 is playing fill-ins for Ross' Saturday midday show by ear--late-night jock Richard Allinson filled in for Ross Saturday, while this Saturday for now shows an extension of their Saturday morning "Sounds of the 60s." Meanwhile, Brand's bio is off of the R2 web site, which would seem to me that he's done completely there. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
