This could be the publicity stunt beyond all publicity stunts – are we really to believe that Jade Goody is going to undergo a life changing experience after news that she will visit India to apologise for her supposed racist remarks against Shilpa Shetty. An unattributable source has given this nuggest of information to the…
One of the biggest money spinners in PR at the moment is the contract for HDTV. Back in 1938 it was another technological break through that was in the headlines, albeit less hi tec. The radio exhibition at London’s Olympia was set up to promote radio hardware in an attempt to get more people to…
I have a gentleman named Paul Rigby to thank for a letter he sent me, informing me of one of Jim Moran’s genius stunts in Hollywood. Apparently Moran, who was wanting work in Tinseltown, approached a couple of Hollywood film studios to pitch for business. He posed as a Lithuanian film producer, even learning a…
Channel 4 is on a roller coaster ride. Every hour this week a new scenario shifts the media agenda and the current interest in Big Brother is at an all time high. The media and the public has been fixated – and transfixed – by the bullying and supposed racism in the house. And whether…
I did a total of 32 interviews on Jade and the best are posted up here. There’s the afternoon programme on Radio 4, Saturday’s breakfast show on Radio 5 Live and the Stephen Nolan programme from Saturday evening which turned into a debate on the state of British Television.
What more can be said about the Celebrity Big Brother chaos, the media world is all consumed by comment. I have found a quote from the Simpson’s that at this time we need to jump too for some comic philosophy as we muse on the cult of celebrity. In an episode called Bart the Fink,…
Jennifer Aniston has recently begun walking around her Los Angeles mansion in a deep sleep and then waking up confused and bewildered. Friends of Jennifer, 37, believe she has started sleepwalking because of stress in her personal life. The Borkowski poet in residence begs to differ. Jennifer, Jennifer, sleepwalking queen, are you rehearsing your roles…
Lets face it Channel 4 are guilty of revenue chasing. I am sure both Endermol and the channel are hoping the tornado will pass before they come up with a strategy rebuild. I think it’s deeply ironic that the totemic Estuary bint that has plundered the post Big Brother universe for revenue should return to…
The Borkowski poet in residence takes a look at the aftermath of the racism/bullying hoo-ha surrounding Celebrity Big Brother. From the Houses of Parliament to the streets of Dehli debates are now raging about Channel 4 telly and specifically the show we thought was dead in the water. Now Celebrity Big Brother has every single…
After a particularly difficult weekend helping out a poor innocent who was the subject of some unpleasant attention from a Sunday newspaper. A note arrived in my inbox from a pal who had heard about the dilemma. “Take a look at this to see how the weasel words and lies of a news desk are…