Tony corridor’s original series Im a BBC Controller … Get Me Out Of Here!,Flockstars fails to make the baa, and Kevin Lygo looks at breakfast• Ewe cannot be serious! Monkey hears that ITV’s celebrity shepherding show Flockstars might not be returning. Dubbed Strictly reach Dogging by wags, and the series divided audiences but former ITV director of television Peter Fincham said final year that it had got people talking so might return. But ITV sources say there are “no current plans for a original series with this format”. Baa humbug.• Following Tony corridor’s hit original series I’m a BBC Controller … Get Me Out Of Here! (which saw Charlotte Moore crowned queen of the BBC TV jungle) a certain nervousness is creeping into BBC radio. After the merger of BBC1,2 and 4 controller roles into Moore’s domain, could some of the radio station controllers go the same way as the corporation makes cuts? Beware director generals bearing kangaroo testicles Ben Cooper, or Gwyneth Williams,Bob Shennan, Jonathan Wall and Alan Davey.
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Source: theguardian.com