No Deal

Call me a nerd but I honestly can't understand why anyone isn't fully aware of what's going on in the news. Surely it's worth following purely for the entertainment value?

Hats off to the producer who decided to overlay Paxman's script with clips of Edmonds jollying it up with Mr Blobby but as Noel was quick to remind us, there's a serious point here. What exactly will happen to The BBC if it is taken over by his 'consortium'? In order to truly understand the answer to this question, we must first consider what The BBC was compared with what it has become.

For decades, this organisation was a trusted source of information in countries of political uncertainty. Today, it routinely warns people before showing 'graphic' images in an attempt to shelter society from reality.

Once a vital resource of music and knowledge for younger and older listeners alike, Nick Grimshaw now takes to asking his Radio 1 cohosts, if they got a job as Superman,
'Wouldn't you be like, LOL I'm superman?'

Edmonds maintains he loves the BBC but remained very secretive about his intentions should he be able to buy it. From his interview on the BBC's Newsnight we can conclude that he intends to make it 'suitable' for an internet age, so do he and his 'likeminded people' know how we will want to consume our education, information and entertainment in ten years time?

It's still unclear why he is the man for the job of saving the BBC from 'sleepwalking its way to distraction' or why he even wants to. Having made as much as £20,000 per episode of Deal Or No Deal, he certainly doesn't need to flip it. He now has a third wife and a house with beautiful views in the south of France. All in all, on or off screen, through good times and bad, he has remained in the nation's consciousness.

Indeed his desire to remain on our screens resonates to this day. Even before his TV comeback in 2004, Channel 5 was documenting the volatility of his showbiz career and still he continues to hop from Sky to Channel 4 to Doctor Who and Children In Need. This almost calls for a shoehorned reference to Whack-A-Noel? Anyway, if mealy suggesting he might collaborate with a group of people who want to buy the BBC gets him summoned for questioning by Paxman, imagine how much screentime he'd get if he owned the whole network.