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| Media Monkey’s diary: Ed Vaizey, Alan Yentob, National Television Awards | Media Monkey’s diary: Ed Vaizey, Alan Yentob, National Television Awards |
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| • Commiserations to culture minister Ed Vaizey, who was dropped by Theresa May on Friday evening after six years in the role. He confirmed the news of his own “Vexit” on Twitter, saying he was “looking forward to supporting the government from the backbenches”. | • Commiserations to culture minister Ed Vaizey, who was dropped by Theresa May on Friday evening after six years in the role. He confirmed the news of his own “Vexit” on Twitter, saying he was “looking forward to supporting the government from the backbenches”. |
| Looking forward to supporting the government from the backbenches #vexit | Looking forward to supporting the government from the backbenches #vexit |
| The affable Tory MP managed to break the record for the longest-serving arts minister in May – beating Jennie Lee’s run in the 60s – and made friends throughout the creative industries along the way. Among the media names paying tribute on Twitter were Simon Schama, Pat Younge, the National Theatre, Sandi Toksvig, Miranda Sawyer and Louise Mensch. | |
| @edvaizey dear Ed - an artsfelt thankyou | @edvaizey dear Ed - an artsfelt thankyou |
| @edvaizey This is sad news. Driven real change on diversity after years of inaction, also a decent bloke. @LennyHenry #keepupthepressure | @edvaizey This is sad news. Driven real change on diversity after years of inaction, also a decent bloke. @LennyHenry #keepupthepressure |
| Huge thanks to @edvaizey, who as the UK’s longest serving arts minister has been a tireless advocate for culture and the arts. | Huge thanks to @edvaizey, who as the UK’s longest serving arts minister has been a tireless advocate for culture and the arts. |
| @edvaizey We'll miss you. You did good listening, and that's so needed, and so rare. Thank you. | @edvaizey We'll miss you. You did good listening, and that's so needed, and so rare. Thank you. |
| @edvaizey Oh Ed, that is a shame. Thank you for all your brilliant work for the arts | @edvaizey Oh Ed, that is a shame. Thank you for all your brilliant work for the arts |
| @edvaizey approximately 18 months is a short time in politics. You were only minister I was ever jealous of. You will be missed v much. xxx | @edvaizey approximately 18 months is a short time in politics. You were only minister I was ever jealous of. You will be missed v much. xxx |
| Vaizey will be replaced by West Suffolk MP Matthew Hancock, who was previously the minister for the cabinet office and paymaster general. He will work alongside new culture secretary Karen Bradey, who replaced John Whittingdale on Thursday. | Vaizey will be replaced by West Suffolk MP Matthew Hancock, who was previously the minister for the cabinet office and paymaster general. He will work alongside new culture secretary Karen Bradey, who replaced John Whittingdale on Thursday. |
| • Meanwhile, it has emerged that under Whittingdale the DCMS was forced to resort to emergency measures when it invited views on the BBC. Processing the 1.5m responses required hiring temps and taking over a spare floor of the Government Art Collection. Monkey wonders whether Whittingdale listened – or whether Bradley will now review the responses in deciding how to deal with the BBC white paper. | • Meanwhile, it has emerged that under Whittingdale the DCMS was forced to resort to emergency measures when it invited views on the BBC. Processing the 1.5m responses required hiring temps and taking over a spare floor of the Government Art Collection. Monkey wonders whether Whittingdale listened – or whether Bradley will now review the responses in deciding how to deal with the BBC white paper. |
| • A comeback could beckon for Alan Yentob, as a job currently advertised by BBC Worldwide seems almost to shout “only Yentob need apply”. It’s for the post of creative director, just like the BBC-wide job he felt compelled to step down from as a result of the Kids Company row; it caters for his legendary love of travel, as the chosen one’s empire would encompass west and central Europe, Africa and the Middle East; and best of all, the ad oddly specifies the creative director must be a “captivating presenter”, which clearly fits the Imagine frontman while ruling out behind-the-scenes bureaucrats who might otherwise see themselves as having a strong chance. | • A comeback could beckon for Alan Yentob, as a job currently advertised by BBC Worldwide seems almost to shout “only Yentob need apply”. It’s for the post of creative director, just like the BBC-wide job he felt compelled to step down from as a result of the Kids Company row; it caters for his legendary love of travel, as the chosen one’s empire would encompass west and central Europe, Africa and the Middle East; and best of all, the ad oddly specifies the creative director must be a “captivating presenter”, which clearly fits the Imagine frontman while ruling out behind-the-scenes bureaucrats who might otherwise see themselves as having a strong chance. |
| • When Radio 3 controller Alan Davey, asked by Radio Times about presenters tweeting and soliciting tweets, murmured mildly about the station “working on” not “wanting to sound off-putting, but not over-gushing either”, he probably didn’t foresee how the magazine would present the interview – a giant photo of Clemency Burton-Hill (viewed by the interviewer as the main offender) and the headline “Taming the tweets”, as if his main feat since taking over has been, not staging the Northern Lights season, but reining her in. While he may have managed that on air, the gushing is still going on on Burton Hill’s Twitter feed: “Good morning! Could there be a lovelier way to wake than with @LeifOveAndsnes playing Brahms’ Intermezzo no 2...? Just heavenly”, and “Bless the big-hearted folk at @flatwhitesoho for giving me my coffee even though I’d misplaced my wallet and couldn’t pay” are recent examples. | • When Radio 3 controller Alan Davey, asked by Radio Times about presenters tweeting and soliciting tweets, murmured mildly about the station “working on” not “wanting to sound off-putting, but not over-gushing either”, he probably didn’t foresee how the magazine would present the interview – a giant photo of Clemency Burton-Hill (viewed by the interviewer as the main offender) and the headline “Taming the tweets”, as if his main feat since taking over has been, not staging the Northern Lights season, but reining her in. While he may have managed that on air, the gushing is still going on on Burton Hill’s Twitter feed: “Good morning! Could there be a lovelier way to wake than with @LeifOveAndsnes playing Brahms’ Intermezzo no 2...? Just heavenly”, and “Bless the big-hearted folk at @flatwhitesoho for giving me my coffee even though I’d misplaced my wallet and couldn’t pay” are recent examples. |
| • Wednesday sees ITV’s broadcast of the National Television Awards, which it modestly describes as “the biggest night in British TV”. Even without the traditional boozing, the “hundreds of stars and thousands of fans” who will join Dermot O’Leary at London’s O2 may find themselves befuddled by changes that leave the list of awards even more confusing. A new “live magazine” category has been added, for example, but seems to clash with the “daytime” award; just as the divide between “challenge” and “talent” shows, which have separate gongs, isn’t always obvious (where would you place The Great British Bake Off, for example?). And those awards that have gone, including best judge and best multichannel show, look to cynics as if they may have been killed off because last year ITV’s potential contenders didn’t fare too well. | • Wednesday sees ITV’s broadcast of the National Television Awards, which it modestly describes as “the biggest night in British TV”. Even without the traditional boozing, the “hundreds of stars and thousands of fans” who will join Dermot O’Leary at London’s O2 may find themselves befuddled by changes that leave the list of awards even more confusing. A new “live magazine” category has been added, for example, but seems to clash with the “daytime” award; just as the divide between “challenge” and “talent” shows, which have separate gongs, isn’t always obvious (where would you place The Great British Bake Off, for example?). And those awards that have gone, including best judge and best multichannel show, look to cynics as if they may have been killed off because last year ITV’s potential contenders didn’t fare too well. |
| There’s a suspicion of manoeuvring, too, about the NTAs’ replacement of “best entertainment presenter” by “best presenter”, which may be designed to make Ant and Dec’s annual coronation appear less of a formality because it opens up the category to the likes of Mel and Sue. The bookies, however, are unfooled and still make the Geordie duo 7/1 on to win. If ITV really wants to start a proper fight for the title, it has the obvious option of stopping double acts from daftly posing as a single “presenter”, which would compel the pair at last to compete against each other. | There’s a suspicion of manoeuvring, too, about the NTAs’ replacement of “best entertainment presenter” by “best presenter”, which may be designed to make Ant and Dec’s annual coronation appear less of a formality because it opens up the category to the likes of Mel and Sue. The bookies, however, are unfooled and still make the Geordie duo 7/1 on to win. If ITV really wants to start a proper fight for the title, it has the obvious option of stopping double acts from daftly posing as a single “presenter”, which would compel the pair at last to compete against each other. |
| • Judging by the list of nominees, BAME campaigners are unlikely to find much joy when the NTA results are announced. In 15 categories, with four shortlisted in each, the only ethnic-minority drama stars or presenters in contention are Humans’ Gemma Chan (new drama), BBC Breakfast’s Naga Munchetty (live magazine), Will.i.am from The Voice and Alesha Dixon from Britain’s Got Talent (both talent) and EastEnders’ Richard Blackwood (newcomer, allegedly) and Rakhee Thakrar (serial performance) – and of these only the last two are up for an award in their own right, rather than as part of the team on a nominated show. | • Judging by the list of nominees, BAME campaigners are unlikely to find much joy when the NTA results are announced. In 15 categories, with four shortlisted in each, the only ethnic-minority drama stars or presenters in contention are Humans’ Gemma Chan (new drama), BBC Breakfast’s Naga Munchetty (live magazine), Will.i.am from The Voice and Alesha Dixon from Britain’s Got Talent (both talent) and EastEnders’ Richard Blackwood (newcomer, allegedly) and Rakhee Thakrar (serial performance) – and of these only the last two are up for an award in their own right, rather than as part of the team on a nominated show. |