News of the World to close

More4 should bring this back now '10 O'Clock' live has underwhelmed.

BBC now reporting that both the Murdoch's and Rebekah Wade are to be invited round to parliament for "tea and biscuits" next week.

If ever a story was set to run and run and run........

Rupert in front of a house committee would be well worth seeing

Indeedy!

I wonder how many of them will be able to meet his steely gaze?

British comedians on American shows are always so horribly cringeworthy.

To be fair to John Oliver, all of the Daily Show correspondents are - it's always the crazies they find to interview in their reports that provide the comedy gold. More than anything it winds me up that in the studio they're supposedly having a conversation with Jon Stewart but staring into camera 3*! "What you've got to understand, Jon..." ...is that Jon's sitting over there <---



Not coming back then?

David


*or whatever

Speaking of steely gaze, I used to frequent a club in Glasgow called Bennets, which was always full of steely gaze.

Ahem........moving on.

CNN and Sky carrying today's Vaz committee live. BBC not, however. This story really does have massive global interest, for whichever reason.

According to News International, Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks have all agreed to appear before the DCMS select committee next Tuesday. Should make for fascinating viewing.

John Oliver is pretty good on TDS.

Incidently, he does work for News International as he's one half of The Bugle podcast, which is produced by The Times

Especially if Rebekah makes a huge mistake and blurts out something incriminating like she did last time

Yes, you do wonder if her lack of public speaking comes from an inability to edit herself.

Or, indeed, her journalists.