Tag Archives: Jimmy Savile

Is it just us or is UK advertising going all a bit Allen Brady & Marsh? For those of you who weren’t taking an interest in these matters in the 1970s and’80s,  ABM was a briefly successful agency set up ...

This is a tricky brief: the NSPCC reckons there’s a need post-Jimmy Savile to educate parents on how to talk to/instruct their children that ‘privates are private.’ And, presumably, avoid dodgy-looking B-List celebs working for the BBC. The BBC’s John ...

The big story of the past two weeks has been uber-successful New York (and Sydney and Auckland) agency Droga5’s decision to venture into further territories; initially London. But do such micro-networks really have a chance of succeeding? BBH tried it ...

It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its ...

Admittedly Lord Hall – one-time BBC head of news Tony Hall – isn’t quite as grand as former Tory minister and last governor of Hong Kong Lord (Chris) Patten but it’s a sign that egalitarianism in the UK never quite ...

It comes as no surprise that former Radio One DJ Dave Lee Travis (left), the self-styled ‘hairy monster,’ has been questioned by Inspector Plod as part of his inquiries into sexual shenanigans at the BBC in the wake of the ...

BBC director-general George Entwistle has resigned following a staggeringly poor showing on the BBC’s own Today programme yesterday morning and former Pepsico marketing boss Tim Davie (pictured) has taken over as interim director general. Davie must regard this as a ...

There’s nothing quite like the BBC when it goes into one of its periodic bouts of self-analysis and we had another blast this morning on the Today programme about its treatment of the Jimmy Savile affair. The BBC’s Panorama is ...

For years he wove a cynical circle of deceit around the community, perpetrating the most heinous misdeeds while masquerading as a benefactor of mankind. Of course, there were a few whispers. Doubters who thought the myth he had wrapped around ...