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| Bill voicing new ad campaign for Jordans Country Crisp |
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 * Bill Oddie, or at least his voice, will be appearing in ads for Cereal firm Jordans.
From MarketingWeek:
Jordans launches Bill Oddie voiced campaign
16-Mar-09
Jordans is set to launch its first major television campaign for four years today (March 16) featuring the voice of Bill Oddie. The 30 second spot, created by VCCP, is for Jordans Country Crisp brand and aims to highlight the attention that goes into each box of the cereal. The animated commercial uses the strapline 'You can taste we care' and focuses of how Jordans sources oats from trusted farmers.
The ad follows last year's VCCP-created print campaign and features the voice of BBC Spring Watch presenter and former Goodie Oddie.
Carol Welch, marketing and innovation director at Jordans, says the campaign aims to highlight its "brand heritage based on values and benefits of whole foods and nature friendly farming".
"We want to bring this to life in a way that engages consumers and helps them understand that not only do our products taste great they are also made in a way that is genuinely different," she says.
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Posted by lisa at 18/03/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Hold the front page! |
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The latest edition of the Goodies Clarion & Globe newsletter (#160) is now available on the website. It can be accessed from the "Last Articles" box at the bottom of this webpage.
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| Hamish & Dougal repeats on BBC Radio 7 |
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 I've just noticed that "Hamish & Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea" series 1 has returned to BBC Radio 7's Thursday schedule starting today. This "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" spin-off stars Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Jeremy Hardy, & Alison Steadman. Series 1 Episode 1 ("The Musical Evening") airs at 22:45 (London Time) tonight; it can be heard online from
www.bbc.co.uk/radio7 and will be available from Listen Again afterwards for a week after broadcast.
Marcus Brigstocke fans might like to know that his series "Think the Unthinkable" follows "Hamish& Dougal" at 23:00 (starting with series 1, episode 1 this evening).
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Posted by lisa at 12/03/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Bill undergoing treatment for another bout of depression |
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The Daily Mail is reporting that Bill is being treated at a mental health hospital for another bout of depression. We all wish him a speedy recovery.
From The Daily Mail
Bill Oddie admitted to psychiatric hospital with depression
By Anna Davis
Last updated at 10:08 AM on 11th March 2009
The TV presenter and conservationist is at the Capio Nightingale hospital near London's Harley Street, where Amy Winehouse has been treated for crack, heroin and Valium addictions.
Oddie, 67, has suffered depression for much of his life and has spoken about it publicly.
His agent David Foster said: 'Bill gets these bouts every two or three years where he gets down for about two weeks and recovers.
'He sometimes goes into hospital or takes a break or has a change of scenery to recharge his batteries.'
A spokesman for the BBC said: 'We wish him a speedy recovery.'
In his autobiography published last year, Oddie wrote: 'While I was writing this book, my brain stopped for a fourth time.
'I started waking up with those all too familiar feelings of anxiety. Not terrified, but nervous, slightly fearful."
He added: 'Filming Springwatch helped - my mood always improves when I am out in the great outdoors."
Oddie has written and presented many TV and radio programmes including I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Twice A Fortnight, Broaden Your Mind, Festival and Ask Oddie but is perhaps best known for his role in Seventies comedy show The Goodies.
Writing about his role in The Goodies last August, Oddie said: "We were not a boy band. We were a thirty-something band. OK, a middle-aged band. I very much doubt if there was any hormonal element involved, it was just Goody mania and, to be honest, it could be pretty exciting, if not a wee bit intoxicating.
"What freaked me out, as we used to say in the Seventies, was the fan in the street. For much of the time, I hated the off-screen attention. Some days I felt as if I was being hunted. By a pack. They were surrounding me, and there was no escape.
"I felt hunted, I felt claustrophobic, and I was resentful that I couldn't just carry on shopping, or going for walks, or to the cinema, or even on holiday, especially with my daughters Kate and Bonnie."
Edited to add: The story has been picked up by other major papers as well. The articles are pretty much the same, other than the file photos accompanying them.
The Telegraph
The Mirror
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Posted by lisa at 10/03/2009 21:00 GMT |
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| articles from The Guardian and The Times about ISIHAC's return with guest hosts |
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Two more articles about the Clue guest hosts.
From The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/feb/25/lyttelton-sorry-havent-clue):
It'll take three men to replace one Humphrey Lyttelton
No one person could take over from Lyttelton. Perhaps that's why Radio 4 are replacing him with three British comedy giants
Jazz musician and radio broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton, who died on April 25 2008 aged 86. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
You have to expect some plangent enthusiasm when a person's just died, but Iain Pattinson, the writer on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue sounded measured, not hyperbolic, when he said Humphrey Lyttelton made things about 10 times funnier than they were when he wrote them. "Which is the opposite of what usually happens," Pattinson continued, in case anyone thought he was doing that naff, self-deprecation thing they do at the Oscars.
I think, beyond the eulogy, there's a point here, which is that Lyttelton brought something particular to the way I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue worked.
It wasn't just any old comedy show; you couldn't fish those jokes out and use them for The News Quiz, or as a funny monologue-filler on Broadcasting House. The "isn't this a rubbish show, and aren't we all rubbish at it?" jokes needed it to be incredibly good, which they were. The double entendres in particular needed Lyttelton's delivery. The jokes were incredibly puerile, so they needed a presenter who would commit to them totally – any hint of "why am I even saying this? It's so childish!" would have sunk them. And yet at the same time, anyone at all self-satisfied (imagine Angus Deayton) committing totally to this childishness would have just sounded very annoying. The presenter had to be a total performer, but with a humility quite at odds with performing; it's a once-in-a-generation combination. I just cannot imagine anybody else doing it.
But now I'm talking myself out of finding a replacement for Humph, and I desperately would like him replaced, because I miss the show. It was more than one voice, and none of the others are dead. There is not one aspect of it I'd like to see binned; not even the swanee whistle is stale ... well, maybe that's a bit stale, but freshness was never really the point.
Humph is to be replaced by three men. It was announced today by the BBC that the rotating chairmanship is to be split between Stephen Fry, Rob Brydon and Jack Dee. Fry has been doing panel-duty on and off for 21 years, even before Willy Rushton died (I guess he did holiday cover), and I have to say, it never once did not amaze me, the disgusting stuff he came out with. I feel that he could bring something, not Humph-like, but definitely new, to the double entendre. Rob Brydon did a rendition of Danny Boy on the show once, so powerful and moving that he can do whatever he likes, really. When Jack Dee first appeared, on a special, he said he wouldn't do it again because his voice spoilt it. So I guess he will be making a feature of that: the opposite of Humphrey Lyttelton, the person whose voice makes everything much less funny.
Oh, it'll be fine. Only an idiot would worry about a situation in which three huge beasts of British comedy rotate in one tiny chair. They can't mess it up - maybe sometimes - but not all the time.
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From The Times (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article5802568.ece):
From Times OnlineFebruary 25, 2009
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue back with Stephen Fry, Rob Brydon and Jack Dee hosting
Veronica Schmidt
The hugely popular Radio 4 panel show I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue is to return to Radio Four this summer with Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon sharing hosting duties.
The new series, which will begin recording in April, will be the first since the show's iconic chairman Humphrey Lyttelton died last spring.
The news will be a surprise to many who assumed the programme was finished. The final series was cancelled last April after Lyttelton underwent surgery on an aortic aneurysm. He died that month, aged 86.
Famed for his endless supply of innuendo, Lyttelton, also a jazz musician and cartoonist, was the show’s host from its inception in 1972. It regularly attracted 2 million listeners.
A year before Lyttelton's death, regular panellist Tim Brooke-Taylor was asked to contemplate the future of the show without its presenter. He said: “Humph is the most important component. Willie Rushton and I talked about it once and we agreed that if Humph isn’t there it’s not worth doing.”
Gavin and Stacey star Brydon, stand-up comic Dee and the medium-straddling Stephen Fry all appeared on the show during Lyttelton’s 36-year reign in the chair.
Today, Brydon said he would not try to fill Lyttelton's shoes "because that couldn't be done - he was a complete one-off".
Radio 4 will begin broadcasting the series in June.
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Posted by lisa at 25/02/2009 18:00 GMT |
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| news stories about ISIHAC guest hosts |
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Here are a few of the stories in the media today about the guest hosts for the upcoming series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". Broadcasts of the next series begin on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, June 15.
BBC Radio 4 Blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/2009/02/im_sorry_i_havent_a_clue.html
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Mark Damazer
24 Feb 09, 06:01 PM
It was nice to think that Humphrey Lyttelton would live forever.
When - alas - he died last April I was confronted with the sort of dilemma that R4 faced when John Peel (Home Truths) and Ned Sherrin (Loose Ends) died. Should we take the programme out of the schedules forever in the belief that that presenter was so intimately bound up with the programme that it would be impossible for anyone else to present it - or should we continue in a different way?
It took me a while to work out how to proceed on Saturday mornings and there was a chance that Home Truths would work out post Peel. In many ways it did - but, after nine months, not quite enough to convince me to keep it.
Some immediately thought that we should end 'Clue' - that Humphrey's dry and self-deprecating wit was so central to the alchemy that it would not work without him. I waited before saying anything - not least because the programme team was much affected by the great man's death. But in the event the programme and the station received a fair amount of correspondence suggesting they could not do without 'Mornington Crescent', 'One Song to the Tune of Another' and other assorted brilliant tomfoolery. And the programme team decided they would like to come back - after a period of time
So - unlike 'Home Truths' I thought we should go ahead. I said a while ago (on Feedback) that 'Clue' would return but did not specify when and how. These judgements are tricky.
For Clue we wrote down the names of three people we thought we would like to chair the show - and we knew we would not immediately ask one person to do all of the first run. That would be a big burden - post Humphrey. The three names we wrote down all said yes. And here they are - Messrs Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon. It's wonderful they all agreed. Of course it won't be the same as before - but these are three men of huge talent and I am confident that the show will work. So fingers crossed, and I look forward to the shows.
A reminder of the dates of the recordings and the venues, with two programmes being recorded each night:
Sunday 26th April at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, London, with guest host Stephen Fry.
Tickets will be available from 1000 on Tuesday 3rd March
Sunday 17th May at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, with guest host Jack Dee.
Tickets will be available from 0930 on Monday 2nd March.
Thursday 4th June at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle, with guest host Rob Brydon.
Tickets will be available from 0900 on Monday 9th March
Please contact the theatres for tickets.
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Today Show interview with Rob Brydon and Barry Cryer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7909000/7909546.stm
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BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7909533.stm
Fry, Dee and Brydon take on Clue
Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon are to share hosting duties for a new series of BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue this summer.
The series, which begins recording in April, will be aired in June and will be the show's first appearance since host Humphrey Lyttelton died in 2008.
Comedian Brydon said he was "hugely proud" to be asked to present.
Lyttelton, famed for his innuendo, died in April, aged 86. He was chairman of the series since its 1972 inception.
He died following complications from surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm.
Just before the operation, the BBC had announced it was cancelling recording of the latest series of the show.
Gavin and Stacey star Brydon, who like all the new presenters has appeared as a guest panellist on the show, said it was "not really a question of filling Humph's shoes because that couldn't be done - he was a complete one-off".
"I'm a real latecomer to it, I only came to it about three years ago but I'm so proud to be a small part of it and this is really just about continuing that lovely atmosphere.
"People don't do it for the money, they do it for the enjoyment of it and it's a unique radio show and one that I think we're all hugely proud of."
He added: "It's a unique atmosphere on that show of such warmth that I've never really found on any other show and I think it's important for people to realise that it's a group of friends playing games together."
'E-mail torrent'
Regular panellist Barry Cryer, who has also appeared on the show since the beginning, said Lyttelton's were "big shoes to fill".
"It was a strange sort of watershed when dear Humph went, there was a relatively small movement that you must never do this show again," he said.
"And then a torrent of e-mails and stuff came in saying you must go on, you must go on.
"It's no disrespect to Humph at all.
"It's just people want the show to carry on and we'll be pleased to do it, even without the great man."
Announcing the changes on the station's blog, Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer said the new presenters were "men of huge talent and I am confident that the show will work".
Veteran trumpeter Lyttelton retired from hosting Radio 2's The Best of Jazz programme a month before his death after more than 40 years presenting the show.
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The Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1155362/Stephen-Fry-Jack-Dee-Rob-Brydon-job-share-presenters-radios-Im-Sorry-I-Havent-A-Clue.html
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The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4805733/Im-Sorry-I-Havent-A-Clue-returns-to-Radio-4.html use the "click here for more" link below to see the text of this article
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Posted by lisa at 24/02/2009 21:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout - Spring 2009 |
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The following is a mailing from the official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list.
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Dear ISIHAC Mailing List Member,
I bring news of the long-awaited return of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue', back for its 51st series following the death of our beloved chairman Humphrey Lyttelton last year.
We will probably need to start looking for a permanent replacement for Humph at some stage in the future, but for this series at least, and probably for the next, we will simply be asking past panellists from the wider 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' family to deputise in the role.
ISIHAC stalwarts Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon have all agreed to host the shows in this series.
These are the three recordings dates:
1. Sunday 26th April at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, London, with guest host Stephen Fry.
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 10am ON TUESDAY 3rd MARCH
We will be recording two editions of the programme at Her Majesty's Theatre with guest host Stephen Fry. Tickets cost £10.50, £8.50 and £6.50 and can be purchased by phone by calling See Tickets on 0844 412 4657. The lines are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Alternatively tickets can be booked online via the theatre's website at http://www.seetickets.com
2. Sunday 17th May at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, with guest host Jack Dee.
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 9.30am ON MONDAY 2nd MARCH
We will be recording two editions of the programme at the Mayflower with guest host Jack Dee. Tickets cost £8, £6.50 and £5 and can be purchased by phone by calling the Mayflower's Box Office on 02380 711811. The lines are open from Monday to Saturday 9.30am (10am Fridays) to 8.30pm. The phone lines close at 5.30pm on Saturdays when there is no performance. Alternatively tickets can be booked online via the theatre's website at http://www.mayflower.org.uk/bookinghow.asp
3. Thursday 4th June at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle, with guest host Rob Brydon.
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 9am ON MONDAY 9th MARCH
We will be recording two editions of the programme in Newcastle Mayflower with guest host Rob Brydon. Tickets cost £8 and £6 and can be purchased by phone by calling the Theatre Royal's Box Office on 08448 11 21 21. The lines are open from Monday to Saturday, 9am - 8pm (Wednesday 10am - 8pm). On Sundays and Bank Holidays they are open from 2 hours before a performance. Alternatively tickets can be booked online via the theatre's website at http://www.theatreroyal.co.uk/whats_on/show_details.asp?Course_ID=102030
All three recordings start at 7.30pm and are likely to finish around 10.30pm latest. We don't recommend the recordings for children under the age of 14. Tickets are limited to no more than four per applicant, and you are advised to book early as they sell very fast.
Beware of purchasing tickets for the show from a non authorised source - should any show be cancelled, if you have not purchased the ticket direct from the box office, you would not be eligible for a refund.
Each theatre will keep the details of the first 30 callers to miss out on tickets, so those with tickets who suddenly find they can't attend will be able to re-sell them at the theatre's box office to a deserving member of the mailing list.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'
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According to a post on his Twitter page, Bill will be appearing on the new Blighty channel (Sky 534, Virgin 206) at 10.00am on Saturday, February 28th.
