Just a quick note of appreciation. this channel has been consistantly interesting since day one, and one of a few channels that i look forward to the next release (and will happily use as an excuse to stop working every time i see a new episode). well done so far!
I love how Richard’s cheeky “oh yeah” after Marina’s unintended double entendre (“everyone has been pulled off tik tok”) went completely over her head 😂
By the way, because you had a red border along the bottom of your thumbnail it looked like I'd already watched this video so I almost skipped it! great podcast as always :)
The 'celebrity' BBC team that Richard mentioned struck a chord. My dad was a Television cameraman, he started at the BBC in the fifties. He was based at Lime Grove for a while in the sixties and used to do popular entertainment programmes like '65 Special'. He always got an 'appearance bonus' when his camera was caught in shot, his payslips list the programme he appeared on and the length of time he was visible.
I don't know if other artists would want to do a deal like Taylor's with TikTok because I don't know what that deal was. Did TikTok agree to pay her what Universal were asking? Or did she agree to accept what TikTok were offering? Or did they compromise on something in-between? None of us knows. It may well be that she agreed to low royalties because she cares more about the publicity from being on TikTok than she does about the revenue she can make from TikTok, whereas other artists that aren't millionaires already are happy that Universal is standing up for them and demanding fair pay.
Forty years after Madonna, Michael Jackson and many others of the period were at their height, we are still hearing their music being played everywhere - radio, tv, sports grounds, shops, cafes, high street stores and supermarkets. By 2064, I bet that we won't be saying the same about the current crop of musicians, including Ms Swift. In fact, I would hazard a guess that the above mentioned 1980s stars will still be getting played everywhere 🤨
Celebrity versions of shows can be good, but way too many are ruined by clout chasers who go in with their own brand and don't really care about how they do as long as their brand comes out ahead.
The production is going to have a stellar cast, we are talking British Royalty of the Silver Screen. And Columbus kicked off the Harry Potter Franchise so he's definitely got a place in my heart.
I am often so disillusioned by the things that Richard approves of. I think that US version of Traitors was virtually unwatchable because of these minor celebrities. The players had so many preconceived ideas and loyalties
@@Klutech He has a lot of insight into what happens behind the scenes but the downside is that he is so close to many of the presenters that he feels uncomfortable criticising some of the less successful shows. Case in point Stephen Fry in Jeopardy.
I saw the TMC casting headlines and assumed that Brosnan would be playing Elizabeth's husband. He's great and will do something interesting with Ron, I'm sure, but from the books, I always saw Ron as looking more like a Tim Healey type. I wonder who people shout at Richard about Joyce, I see Anne Reid or Imelda Staunton in my head.
@@Est-os9yc good shout, elsewhere on this thread people have said Penelope Wilton, who had occurred to me as well. I thought they might have cast a little younger, which I know sounds counter intuitive, but with four books and more on the way, casting actors in their late 60s and ageing them up for the first couple of films would be an understandable route to take.
I wish there could be more celebrity based shows, it's a shame there are so few. Wouldn't it be great if we could add to the paucity of travelogues based around the adventures of two celebrity chums say, in a camper van or similar, or anything really, with celebs, doing stuff. It makes me sad but I live in hope. Oh, and more pop songs that would sound equally at home in musical theatre - there's definitely not enough of those along with interchangeable, earnest young men singing plaintive ballad sort of things.
I absolutely adored the US version of Traitors. Kate is an absolute drama weapon and I found myself loving her one moment and hating her the next. Her second coming (not quite Jesus) was the thing that made season 2 so good.
The interesting thing about Taylor Swift’s level of success is that, compared to the 80s icons Madonna, Whitney, MJ etc, she doesn’t really produce what you’d call “pop bangers,” particularly on her last four albums. It’s quite introspective sit at home in the bedroom and listen carefully to the lyrics sort of music, which given the enormity of her level of fame is I think quite unusual.
It appears that Meghan sent jam with her new brand (with fresh lemons) to 50 of her personal friends, some of whom posted on social media about it. The ‘influencers’ badge is just the fictional media spin put on it.
@@alfsmith4936 Can't help but feel that kinda wouldn't work. The whole 'game' is trying to work out who the people are, or being surprised that a celebrity can actually sing. Plus The Voice is basically already doing the whole 'judging a singer without seeing them' thing.
@@JorWat25 Of course it wouldn't work lol. "It sounds like Bob, from the fish counter.. Ring in and vote!" I've only seen it online and it seems like aging stage school veterans, trying to be popular again.
@@JorWat25 I've just looked at the British version's wiki page. Who was surprised that professional singers, Joss Stone, Natalie Imbruglia, or one of Girls Aloud could sing? (I've not heard of the other winners lol)
May sweeps still happens in the US Networks - the death/birth/marriage/divorces (the beginnings and the endings) all predominately happened in those four weeks. It would also be the time when the Networks would do their UpFronts and announce the new shows for September/October.
Re: phone hacking, it was an open secret in the mobile phone sales industry. Everyone knew that there was a loophole with one networks remote access to voicemail (let's call it oxygen). All you needed was the phone number and the fact that the owner hadn't changed the default access pin from 0000 and you could listen to their voicemails. A lot of people made a lot of money from journalists buying details of celebrities mobile numbers if they signed someone up to the network that had this security leak
I’m glad something else is becoming popular in the charts. The dancey Calvin Harris effect has had its day, with it making so much music dance influenced and it all makes the charts sound very bland.
Was it Prince William who made the discovery that his phone was being hacked (2005-2007) and reported it to the police, which lead to the phone hacking scandal.
another great episode, this is my 2x weekly can't miss pod. But, does Richard know his own age (or did I mis-hear).. born in 1959 yet said he's a 53yr old? hmm Edit to add: RIP Sean Lock, finding 8Oo10CDC online got me thru the pandemic.
Does anyone remember that weird show with john leslie that convinced contestants they were, and had, gone into space? The spaceship was basically a fairground ride, with a couple of tvs
Does Four in a Bed count as a big (or at least long-running) show that has never had a celebrity version? If nothing else, I'd imagine it's tricky to find enough "celebs" who also run a B&B.
question, since there seems to be a certain percentage of people here that seem to hate everything about Marina Hyde, why do you watch/listen to the podcast?
Why do podcasts, in their increasingly-common video format, so fixated with having big microphones on screen. When it’s one person talking straight to the camera a big microphone, and sometimes headphones, are a big visual distraction. Technology exists to have hidden microphones and discrete earpieces.
On the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire US remake missing the appeal, there might be some mileage in looking at remakes that just didn’t understand why the original worked. Taskmaster seems to be really quite popular in the US, but the US Taskmaster was, shall we say… Not well received.
Actually, Noah Kahn describes himself as folk/alternative, and he's the only one I love that's not cringy ❤ The rest is all terrible (as an alt rock chick!) 😢
I look to Ms Hyde's facility with language as to a lodestar. I often have to look things up, and with pleasure. However, can somebody please tell me what 'investigate to the 'quarter AR eighth way' means? It's at 3.33. Google has been no help at all.
I think it means that things weren't investigated properly. That the police didn't do a proper job. They did it in, in the American idiom, a "half-assed" way, But she was being clever, so she said it was worse than " half-assed". She says "quarter-assed" and then "eigth-assed". Oh, those tricky fractions. I think that's what she meant. Also, with her dialect, AR could be misheard as "or" or "arsed".
@@derronhall495 I just wanted to properly thank you for your reply. I like the idea of extending 'half-assed' 's meaning in that way, because it does seem to be Ms.Hyde's style. The AR bit still niggles, though.
Celebrity Mastermind is the worst. It used to be quite "Highbrow" tv show, particularly back in the 70s and 80s, but the Celeb edition has dumbed the whole show down.
Taylor Swift's impact on my world is zero. I am a music lover and I go to see live bands of genuine talent. I have no time for overly made up forty somethings who mime their shows to ten year olds while pretending they feel teenage angst. That stuff all happens on another planet.
Celebrity Traitors is a bad idea in my opinion, it's like poker with play money, it sounds fine but without the jeopardy of playing for real money it means nothing. Celebrities aren't incentived to win, they are incentivised to be noticed, which in the Traitors is not optimal. It might do well in the ratings, but it hurts the product and I think that it'll kill the longevity of the show.
Swifties may just save democracy, which is on life support at the moment. Getting her fans to register to vote, sent the MAGA crazies into a whirlwind of despair. For that alone, she deserves her billion.
She dominates because she gets marketed so ridiculously heavily. I get Spotify notifications about her all the time and I never listen to her music. She's shoved down everyone's throats. Milk it while she can. She'll be 40 soon and teens won't want to see an old girl up on stage talking about ex boyfriends.
Haha She's been a well-oiled machine in the sense of capitalizing on her previous relationships. I'm sure much of her audience is half her age and in the teen angst phase, so one would wonder how much longer she will have appeal by that demographic pushing 40.
8 out of 10 cat does countdown is very good, but the opening preamble is far too long and the 30-second 'stunts' just aren't funny compared to the rest of the show
I was deeply amused by the This Morning coverage of Taylor Swift’s album release at the Empire State Building with the paid ringer Swifty fans in the background. They would ask them questions and they would recite their response of their favourite new song, but when the presenter was talking they mimed talking to themselves. Taylor Swift is not really a musician any more, she’s a reality TV star without the TV bit selling gossip about her relationships and inevitable breakups to a celebrity hungry fan base.
@@CyberEdZ Kahan? Excellent, thank you. I’ll give it a go. Always open to new stiff but Country is definitely one of least favourites so I’m keeping my expectations low (I rank British rap/hip-hop (Grime, apparently) ahead of country and I despise all of that!) Thank you again.
@@CyberEdZ It’s quite good, isn’t it!? Not the best thing I’ve heard, but very broad so I can see the appeal across different audiences, genre-wise. Yeah, Folk-Pop I’d call it, before I’d ever guess it was Country. Or Pop-Folk? Which way around does something like that go, and who decides that in genre-bending songs? Anyway, thank you again - that was decent and now I can pretend to be keeping up with musical trends at the grand-old age of 43!! That said, my 16 year old son doesn’t know who he is either, but I’ve being brainwashing my sons for year with regards to music, film/TV and sport, which I’ve always seen as a success but maybe I’m holding them back(?). Ah, who knows…. Who cares, eh? 😂
wow what great insight, a show about fame and entertainment that would include discussions about one of the most famous women in the world.....what next a Kardashian
I wish this podcast wouldn't keep going too far down the political space. I get that Hugh Grant is an actor and this is why this is being talked about so much - but this seems much more like it should be a News Agents segment
