How Not To Become A Meme
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Which celebrities have the most meme-able faces?
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Hello and welcome to this episode of It's careful to say not The Fourth Doctor.
I've worked for many years with a writer called Tom Baker, whose nickname was Tom Baker, not that Tom Baker. So every time you talk to me, I say, Tom Baker, not that Tom Baker. What do you think about this?
Well, this is from Tom Baker, not The Fourth Doctor, which I think they might be cousins of the others.
But also maybe not even the Tom Baker, not that Tom Baker, who I know. So this is Tom Baker, not that Tom Baker. It's unclear, isn't it? This is Tom Baker, not that Tom Baker, not that Tom Baker.
Yeah, you're going to like this one because it begins, I was watching the Snooker World Championships on the BBC.
There we go, that's all I've been doing.
And right in the middle of it, they cut away for, oh my God, Richard Osmond's House of Games.
They did.
Important as House of Games is, it felt pretty jarring timing, given it was live sport and a fairly unusual drawn-out frame. Got me wondering, how do broadcasters like the BBC actually decide when to pull the plug on live event coverage? Is it strictly schedule-driven no matter what's happening, or is there supposed to be some editorial discretion in moments like that?
If I have a Venn diagram, it's the World Snooker Championships and House of Games.
If there's anything designed to torment you, it's having to choose between those two babies.
Yeah, exactly that. So here's what happened, and I've spent a lot of last week having to answer questions about this already, but... to do it again so the world snooker had been on and they have morning session afternoon session evening session the afternoon session starts about one usually finishes at about five so when wimbledon is on for example house of games is off air because you know that one is always it plays across six o'clock and you know so they keep it on air for the whole time because wimbledon is giving them enough coverage and the and the numbers are high enough that they are happy to leave it on With the snooker, they can't do that because, as I say, it runs from about one to five.
And, you know, the rating, the people who watch snooker love it, like me, and the coverage on the BBC is absolutely impeccable. But you don't take House of Games off air because nine times out of ten, the snooker is finished. In fact, sometimes it will finish at like four and they just show, you know, flog it repeats. So, on this particular occasion, it's a semi-final, and it's a bizarre frame. If people have seen it, there was all sorts online about it. It was the longest frame in the history of the World Snooker Championships at the Crucible. It took an hour. It's like all the reds went over one pocket with the black in front of it.
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