Suse,

Shadow, Beach, Runner, Hasbeen and Our Tone, will all be tuning in to Q&A tomorrow night. Providing there are no 'Loony Tunes' being re-run on 'Nickelodeon' at the same time. Can you confirm?

p/s I think they all missed last weeks show, and have been winging it on here ever since.

Yes indeed Paul, I can see all those 'righties' glaring at the apparently left-leaning ABC show Q&A, peeking at it from behind a door, frothing at the mouth, right eye twitching, desperately adjusting their right-sided dress pants!

They will return to OLO's pages the following day beating their chests about the obvious 'bias' (AKA views foreign to their own) of the Q&A panel members, most likely the female ones too.

It still amazes me how they can bring themselves to watch it?

I'm finally beginning to understand the reasons for the
criticisms of Miriam Margolyes.

She's not their type.

She's not inflatable. ;-)

Lol Foxy :)
I like your style!
Cheers,
Suse.

The elephant in the room is that the ABC's producers patronised and demeaned Miriam Margolyes by setting her up to play a certain role in Jones' circus.

As shown by her comedic acting record and by the clip I linked to earlier (BBC), Margolyes talent was ignored and wasted by the ABC. The ABC producers had their own secondary agenda to serve.

It was the ABC who set her up in an entirely inappropriate situation: wrong content, abysmally wrong compere, wrong panel and wrong audience. All to frame her - with the smug ringmaster Jones setting it up - as the stereotypical carping left lesbian who could reliably take up offensive positions, thereby adding spice, controversy, headlines hopefully, to a flagging show that ran out of ideas a long ago.

Of course Margolyes was obviously uncomfortable and did not completely play the role the producers wanted, but as a serious actor and visitor (invitee) she shouldn't have been put in that situation anyway. The ABC's producers know better than that. It is unethical, both to the talent and to the public who happen to pay for the ABC and deserve better.

As said earlier, since Mangolyes has certain talents and skills, why not give her some proper contract work worthy of her abilities? Something that applies her lifetime of experience and can spice up ABC production, introducing much needed creativity and new directions?

If the ABC isn't just frivolously using and abusing talent like Mangolyes, why doesn't it lever some time for her to tell Dicken's stories in her own way to children? Of course that could mean a little less work for the perennials in its children's shows, but most of them have had a jolly good run.

However the ABC is a sheltered workshop that provides sinecures for life for the chosen ones. The whole place needs a complete shake-up.

SR,

I see that having your bubble pricked you have retreated back to pomposity and childish finger wagging. Next you descend into irrationality by calling me a bully when the person to whom I have directed my invective is not on the thread and will in all likelihood never read this.

While MM is a doyen of the stage, she is an actress and far left whinge in a profession in the UK where being conservative would have doomed her to obscurity. Her views that I have seen so far are cut and pasted from the far left song book and has all the depth of other celebrities such as Brand, Kardashian and Paris Hilton.

If she was 6' I would not have used the term poison dwarf, but some other term, but given her garden gnome like appearance, the term had delicious sting that got the left whingers on this thread foaming at the mouth. (the same hypocrites that think her use of the word tit is appropriate)

My primary beef with MM is surprisingly not with her vacuous insults, but with her extreme anti Israel stance, as having grown up with several ex Israeli friends whose families fled from persecution in Europe to settle in Israel to be subjected to horrific violence from the far from cuddly PLO that happily targeted school buses and defenseless civilians.