Happy to see J Ross esq leave the Beeb

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I am! I didn't think he had a talented bone in his body. Just carried along with a great production and money chucked at famous people to appear. Should have been 4 poofs, a piano and a t***t.

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I have to say I will not miss him - he certainly wasn't much of an interviewer (I wish Parky would come back personally!)
 
I wish I was that untallented 18 million £ / year wasn't it?
 
Personally, I thought he was a very sharp witted radio 2 man and a cracking TV awards host, but no-one, even the most popular guy on the planet is worth the kind of stupid money they throw at them.
More fool the TV companies.
 
Not that bothered really, but I don't believe for a minute all the insane claims of his wages, he was probably paid a good wage by the bbc but then he did do 3 shows all of which are fairly prime time. I am sure there are many people in the world getting paid more for far less.
 
I've always liked him, not worth £18m a year but thats what they wanted to pay him
 
Couldnt care less, and what 18million, jeez thats ridiculous.
 
DC2Z said:
I've always liked him, not worth £18m a year but thats what they wanted to pay him
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You missed out the bit about it being £18 million (for a 3-year contract) of our money.

Seems they've decided to give the money to Graham Norton instead, not sure he's really any better :shake:
 
Always thought he was a two faced sycophantic creep.
Even when he slated a movie on Film 2009 (Couples retreat springs to mind) he fawned all over Vince Vaughn and his wonderfully funny movie (bletch!) Total suckup.
Everybody that comes on chat shows these days has something to sell, be it a movie, book or record. Long gone are the days where you would actually get probing or worthwhile questions.
 
he'll soon show up again on ITV Channel 4 or somewhere
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Yeah - for 19 million or more:lol:


Forgot to add - I will not miss him and yes FILM 2010 will be a better place without him so:wave: rossy
 
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Graham Norton will do a better chat show, his VERY sharp
 
I find him entertaining in small doses. As to whether I'll miss him or not it depends what they replace him with, I don't think we need more repeats or cheap imports.
 
I too am delighted to see him go. Like the beeb's top executives who says they could get more money elsewhere I suggest they go. When I was working and one of my managers put it very clearly . . . 'If you know a better hole go to it'
 
I believe the 18 million wasn't his wage but the money paid to produce his TV and radio show, including his fee/wage and everybody else involved.
 
milk no sugar ,,,cheers mate :thumbs:
 
Dave Stone said:
I believe the 18 million wasn't his wage but the money paid to produce his TV and radio show, including his fee/wage and everybody else involved.
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That seems unlikely, £6M a year wouldn't be enough to do that.
 
I heard he was going to America to host "The Red Rose Rodeo Review" ;)
 
I personally don't see how many people could be so happy to see him go. He did very few shows so like with everything else, if you don't like it - don't watch it?

TBH I'm not suprised he is leaving after how the BBC treated him (Something to do with lots of complaints form people who didn't even listen to the radio show...)
 
(Something to do with lots of complaints form people who didn't even listen to the radio show...)

trouble is, whether they heard it or not they pay his wages, and they have every right to expect better for their money.
 
RichardtheSane said:
I personally don't see how many people could be so happy to see him go. He did very few shows so like with everything else, if you don't like it - don't watch it?

TBH I'm not suprised he is leaving after how the BBC treated him (Something to do with lots of complaints form people who didn't even listen to the radio show...)
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Because I'd much rather the money that goes to him (That the public pay), actually goes to create better programs, or improve the budget of Top Gear once again.
 
Typical of 21st C Britain he is a total example of style over substance no talent but somehow has been paid millions fot doing sod all,unfortunately I have heard he will be replaced by another nonetity in Graham Norton
 
Glad to see the back of him. The way he interrupted and spoke over his guests noised me up something fierce.
When he started his chat show on Beeb1, his lines were written by Keith Allen - and were generally quite witty. After he sacked Keith the lines stopped being funny, and he had to rely on smut and foul language to 'entertain' the audience.
Hopefully he will b*gger off to Sky1 where he can join such superb shows as Bill Bailey's extreme birdwatching offering AKA "Bill Bailey's Big Bird Watch"
Yet another reason for not giving Murdoch a coin.
 
RichardtheSane said:
I personally don't see how many people could be so happy to see him go. He did very few shows so like with everything else, if you don't like it - don't watch it?

TBH I'm not suprised he is leaving after how the BBC treated him (Something to do with lots of complaints form people who didn't even listen to the radio show...)
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That's part of the reason I'm happy he's going, apart from anything else it's totally obscene that someone like Ross should get £6 million a year of tax payer's moneywhen there are nurses and soldiers having to survive on what he would consider loose change....
 
I'm not quite sure why everyone's moaning about him. If you don't like him, do something outrageous, like turn off the blinkin telly! You don't have to watch him.

Of course his wages are obscene, but that's the BBC's fault.
 
treeman said:
I'm not quite sure why everyone's moaning about him. If you don't like him, do something outrageous, like turn off the blinkin telly! You don't have to watch him.

Of course his wages are obscene, but that's the BBC's fault.
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Quite agree if you dont like him turn the TV off or over I will miss him I liked his humour and hope he does turn up on another station is he worth £6million a year no but dont blame him for taking it
Bob
 
Dave Stone said:
I believe the 18 million wasn't his wage but the money paid to produce his TV and radio show, including his fee/wage and everybody else involved.
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this one I do know cos we nearly got sued for getting this wrong in a report.. oops!

his personal wage was six million / year. I know this now.

Couldnt give a monkeys about him leaving the BBC, although where will celebs go to launch their new books now?
 
Flash In The Pan said:
That's part of the reason I'm happy he's going, apart from anything else it's totally obscene that someone like Ross should get £6 million a year of tax payer's moneywhen there are nurses and soldiers having to survive on what he would consider loose change....
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Um, he wasn't getting tax payers money he was getting BBC money which is only partially funded by the tax payer - IMO the source of the money as an arguement holds no water.

It should be about the value an individual adds to the BBC vs the amount it costs them. On a UK broadcast level I don't think he added enough value and I expect the BBC have come to realise that too. Worldwide? I don't know - maybe he did (and that is where the beeb want to make money anyway!)

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Because I'd much rather the money that goes to him (That the public pay), actually goes to create better programs, or improve the budget of Top Gear once again.
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Actually I totally agree with this (Except for the public pay bit, see above) - although I'm sure the Top gear naysayers will disagree :lol:
 
Flash In The Pan said:
That's part of the reason I'm happy he's going, apart from anything else it's totally obscene that someone like Ross should get £6 million a year of tax payer's moneywhen there are nurses and soldiers having to survive on what he would consider loose change....
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He hasn't been given £6 million a year. As has been pointed out, the figures quoted are for the shows and therefore include all the production costs.

I like Ross. Far better IMVHO than Parky who ended up being the set up man for all his guests to then spout out the same drivel they did on all the other shows. JR's irreverend humour brought out the personality in his guests.
 
Ross is an odd one. Often he'd get on my bits and would have to be turned off but once in a while he could be spot on with his delivery/humour.

Either way, I'll be sorry to see him leave the radio show. It's got to be pretty unlikely that his replacement will take as much time off, and that means less chances to hear the likes of marc lammarr or huey morgan. :)
 
_Um, he wasn't getting tax payers money he was getting BBC money which is only partially funded by the tax payer_

I thought the BBC was funded by the licence payers, which is effectively everybody whether you watch him or not. If it then gets further revenue from Government that's just the same people paying again.

Any programmes they sell will offset this, but have they sold any Ross programmes?

He hasn't been given £6 million a year. As has been pointed out, the figures quoted are for the shows and therefore include all the production costs.


from everything Ross has said it seems that he thinks his salary was £6M a year, perhaps you need to take that up with him.

I truly doubt the £6M would pay for the production of all the shows he was involved in, and they certainly couldn't all have been done by his own production company which suggests he worked for nothing the rest of the time.

I think it is fairly obvious that it was his salary. It was 6 times that of Wogan, I believe, but he did more shows than Wogan.
 
RichardtheSane said:
Um, he wasn't getting tax payers money he was getting BBC money which is only partially funded by the tax payer - IMO the source of the money as an arguement holds no water.

It should be about the value an individual adds to the BBC vs the amount it costs them. On a UK broadcast level I don't think he added enough value and I expect the BBC have come to realise that too. Worldwide? I don't know - maybe he did (and that is where the beeb want to make money anyway!)
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The licence fee is a tax, the BBC is funded by the licence fee it is only in a position to generates revenue from other areas because it has the public funding in the first place.

I agree, however, that the question is how much value does Ross, described variously by his peers as a "talentless ****wit" and "an icon of greed", add to the BBC. My personal opinion is that far from adding value his gauche behaviour is detremental to the corporation's image, however given the rest of the drivel that they now serve up as "entertainment" I may well be in the minority with such a view.

NorthernNikon said:
He hasn't been given £6 million a year. As has been pointed out, the figures quoted are for the shows and therefore include all the production costs
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Ross also.....earn(s) millions more through his company, Open Mike, which receives a production fee for making his Friday night chat show for the BBC
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NorthernNikon said:
JR's irreverend humour brought out the personality in his guests.
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Sorry to disagree, but his humour isn't irreverent, it's the kind of lavatorial, school-boy stuff that most people grow out of by the time they near the age of 50.....


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Why is everyone going on about the public's money? It's not like it's taxpayers' money - it's TV license money. If you don't like your money being spent, don't watch TV :shrug:

(Or watch it at someone else's house?)
 
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