New Year Honours

So the Olympians dominate, whilst Dame Hyacinth Bucket is the biggest TV name to get the top honour. (Sir) Mark Rylance, Maggie Philbin (OBE) and Angela Rippon (CBE) amongst the other notable TV honours.

Anyway, just a thought but were the BBC and ITV both smart enough tonight to schedule their late news bulletins to air after the embargo on honours was lifted (at 10.30pm it seems), or was that purely coincidence? Do they do the same every year?

I'd have added Sir Ken Dodd to the list of TV names, although he hasn't been on TV regularly in recent years at one time he was a regular fixture.

Clearly not for Services to the Inland Revenue though!

The biggest upset amongst social media posters was Victoria Beckham's honour.

Ken Dodd only appears on TV now usually when BBC Four (or BBC Two) has wheeled something out from the archive where he appears as a talking head. This weekend he's appearing on Channel 5. How the mighty have fallen TV-wise, however still very successful on tour and still going at 89 often until well past midnight. Who would have thought one could get so much mileage out of a tickling stick , "Happiness" and a "failed accountant" joke?

Is quite random how C5 are dedicating five hours of primetime to him over the weekend before switching to MTV Big Brother.

This may shock some people and Ken dodd still works, and just finshed a tour around the UK, He also does Blackpool on the sundays thought Oct/nov.

It seems if your not on Telly you must be unemployed or dead...

Dodd's been on tour for years, it's how he started, just like everybody else of his era. What's your point?

like I said, It seems if your not on Telly you must be unemployed or dead... going by most people.

Ken Dodd is still tremendously hard working. As 623058 says, he still regularly tours, although he probably hasn't told a new joke since 1994.

Guess he was knighted for services to recycling then.

To be honest I can't see anyone suggesting otherwise.

Was Ken Dodd ever regularly on TV?

I'd not really thought much of him until he appeared on the QI radio programme 'The Museum of Curiosity' a while back. He was excellent on there, came across so well