Jonathan Ross suspended without pay and Brand resigns

Ross has been suspended until MID JAN 2009.

with out pay!

ITV was smart there would bring back al murry till xmas!

Unfortunately, they're wheeling out repeats of Bergerac in the Country for the millionth time for the 9-11pm slot.

Is that suspended as punishment, or suspended pending investigation?

He'll have the Comedy Awards on ITV1 soon anyway - though I'm sure the Daily Mail will kick up a fuss about it, and I'm surprised they're not trying to get Ponderland on C4 scrapped too, which ironically is followed by Fonejacker from next week.

As punishment I think, this has just gone beyond a joke.

I feel like I'm being punished as a consumer of BBC products.

BBC DG: "Ross should view this as a final warning"

His every word at the BBC will no doubt be monitored and scrutinized now. Maybe it'd be better for him if he just resigned and took the show to a channel with a backbone where he'd be under less pressure.

do you not think copying and pasting the same reply to both threads is a bit excessive?

So who will do Film 2008?

Uh... no. ROSS is suspended.

Brand has resigned.

As ludicrous as his salary is, he's effectively being fined £1m-£1.5m for such a trivial thing.

Yeah, back in the (yester)day, it was correct.

No, I'm really angry about this.