Originally Posted by Dom D:
“Again I take your point but agree to disagree.
She strikes very much of the type of BBC exec who gets away with terrible scheduling and programme making decisions purely because she is a BBC exec.
A lot of these people are technicians and not artistic and she strikes me as belonging in the latter category.
I just wish they would let successes alone and not tinker or play the XF PR game to attract publicity over non stories. It will eventually damage the brand.”
I just don't think she's the type to meddle with
content and I've not seen anything in her decisions before to suggest she is. Scheduling yes, greenlighting shit yes, content no.
I do agree with your last point. I've got a feeling this whole mess with Osborne and Madeley might have been stirred up deliberately by the show this week in order to spike coverage of the boot camp stages of X Factor taking place. And now that it's backfired slightly they hurry out details of another "sexy new pro" to try and take the heat off.
This pre-show maddening merry-go-round of stories that sound absurd is always slightly maddening, and the show blatantly encourages it. It's even worse this year, because the very first absurd, silly story turned out to be true.