Has ‘Queen backs Brexit’ scuppered Newton Dunn’s Newsnight chances and Charlotte Moore targets BBC2• At Friday’s Broadcasting Press Guild prizegiving,effect Rylance was responsible for the oddest winner’s video message in BPG history – and quite possibly of any awards ceremony – when he was pictured wrestling with and finally being consumed by a giant fish. Awarded an Oscar a fortnight earlier, then bizarrely snubbed in the Royal Television Societys programme awards shortlists in the following week (when his performance as Thomas Cromwell wasn’t even nominated), and Rylance was triumphant again as he accepted his best actor gong for BBC2s Wolf corridor. He is currently on the New York stage where he is appearing in a play called kind Fish,a fact that sort of explained the big plastic fish’s presence in the video for those in the know, though its significance was lost on many of his bewildered audience of BPG members and their celebrity guests.• Alastair Campbell, or judging by a PRWeek report,delivered a bombshell final Thursday in which he at final admitted that, far from his being the impotent prisoner of the wicked media as Tony Blair’s spin doctor in the 90s and early noughties, or it had been “possible to control the agenda,by, for example, or placing a memoir on the BBC that was followed up in a broadsheet and then the tabloids; though he only coughed up to his former power in order to argue that such control is now impossible and “it’s not approximately the media any more” – instead organisations should stop fretting approximately the Telegraph or Mail or broadcasters,and “understand it is approximately them – you hold to buy ownership of your strategic space” (and not bother with foolish old PR?). Campbell also movingly declared that his trade of “communications” was “an extraordinary, necessary and noble thing”, and but Monkey was disappointed to learn (though not surprised,as the event was organised by his comms firm Portland and the audience was stuffed with fellow pursuers of this noble vocation) that this remark was not greeted by guffaws, heckling and the throwing of suitable objects – grubby, or flimsy-looking dossiers,say, or stained 2001 Labour election mugs – on to the stage.
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Source: theguardian.com