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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36094129)

Would a broadcaster like Sky want a 75-year-old white male who's associated himself with the right-of-centre doing the big interviews with politicians?
I can see him doing a series eg interviews of figureheads eg Andrew Neill interviews ex-Prime Ministers for Channel 5 or yesterday but I think his days of making the news are over.

His war on woke doesn’t fit well with Sky and their equality drives against all forms of descrimination.

Breaking News: Timmy Mallett has been hired as Andrew Neil's replacement. Farage is furious to still be upstaged.

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Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36094207)

Breaking News: Timmy Mallett has been hired as Andrew Neil's replacement. Farage is furious to still be upstaged.

Says it all (if true).

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36094209)

Says it all (if true).

Doubt GB News has that kind of budget - most of its year one programming budget was probably used to pay Harri and Neil off.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36094216)

Doubt GB News has that kind of budget - most of its year one programming budget was probably used to pay Harri and Neil off.

You clearly haven’t read the news properly. Any settlement due has been voided, as Andrew Neil himself pointed out, saying he is free to so say what he wants. Harri was suspended. He chose to leave as far as I can recall.

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 36094283)

I suspect Neil was paid off before his Question Time performance. I doubt he would have been so critical of the station then if it impacted his back pocket.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36094295)

I suspect Neil was paid off before his Question Time performance. I doubt he would have been so critical of the station then if it impacted his back pocket.

If I read the timeline of events at that point the agreement stood. GB News reneged the weekend following.

I’m sure Messrs Sue, Grabbit, & Runne will be having chats with GB News lawyers soon…

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36094298)

I’m sure Messrs Sue, Grabbit, & Runne will be having chats with GB News lawyers soon…

... never mind Hunt, Lunt & Cunningham.

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36094299)

... never mind Hunt, Lunt & Cunningham.

I'm sure GB News's lawyers are sending out NDAs as fast as they can type them!

No real surprises here but the company and Neil disagree as to whose fault it was that the channel launched when it was not ready to.

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GB News is just a disaster. I came close to a breakdown. It would've killed me to carry on. I HAD to quit: ANDREW NEIL gives his first interview since his exit from the channel he helped create - amid tales of in-fighting, amateurism and toxic fallouts

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...DREW-NEIL.html

The only fallout I see is him crying about technical difficulties it’s first two week. Quite literally did 8 shows. I mean seriously, is that the Earth shattering news on why he quit?

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 36094397)

The only fallout I see is him crying about technical difficulties it’s first two week. Quite literally did 8 shows. I mean seriously, is that the Earth shattering news on why he quit?

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‘One of the great ideas before I left was we do trial by television on the guilty men of Brexit – those who tried to stop it, like Lord Adonis and Nick Clegg.

‘I said: “Why do you want to do that? You won the referendum.” We’re out. But let me remind you that was the most miserable period of modern British politics. We should be looking forward to the 2020s. Another suggestion was that we should put secret cameras in classrooms to show how Left-wing the teachers were. I said: “That’s a really good idea but I think you should take charge of that yourself, and I promise you that after you get in hot water for breaking about five different laws – including filming minors – come back and talk to me.” ’

The whole interview simply has him portraying himself as a hapless victim of the whole affair though with little introspection on any mistakes he may have made. I still refuse to believe he didn't have input on staffing up and equipping the production side of the channel.

The whole organisation seems to have been ego-driven with on-air 'talent' failing to appreciate the skill and work that goes into making them look and sound good on air. They seemed to think they could fill the backroom with too few and inexperienced staff being lumbered with dodgy cheap equipment because it'll be fine because they are the real talent.

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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36094405)

Well, he says he warned about technical problems before they started but on that, and many editorial decisions, he was ignored.

It also sounds like they really did want to go down the Sky News Australia route irrespective of the Ofcom and legal issues:

The whole interview simply has him portraying himself as a hapless victim of the whole affair though with little introspection on any mistakes he may have made. I still refuse to believe he didn't have input on staffing up and equipping the production side of the channel.

The whole organisation seems to have been ego-driven with on-air 'talent' failing to appreciate the skill and work that goes into making them look and sound good on air. They seemed to think they could fill the backroom with too few and inexperienced staff being lumbered with dodgy cheap equipment because it'll be fine because they are the real talent.

If you were to believe every word of him. I think his ego was his downfall, he’s trying to make out GBNews can’t succeed without him. He’s been very disrespectful to the hires of Mark Dolan (Remainer btw) Patrick Christy and you’ve already got Dan Wootan, he proclaimed, referring them as “shock jocks”. All from talkRadio.

He lost me when he started complaining that he was offered £4 Million contract, after just 5 shows he’d decided he’d had enough, “his drivers”, he was “on a plane by 10pm sipping champagne”.

My heart friggin bleeds, not. Just awful, awful man of self importance.

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 36094406)

Yep.