Brand had briefly been in a relationship with Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie. The show was pre-recorded due to Brand's work commitments.
On Thursday 16 October 2008, Sachs, who portrayed Manuel in the 1970s BBC television sitcom Fawlty Towers, was scheduled to be a phone-in guest on Brand's evening radio show. According to Baddiel, Baillie said: "Don't tell him I was here!" Prank calls Baddiel recalled having met Georgina Baillie at Brand's home and being told that her grandfather was actor Andrew Sachs. On 11 October 2008, David Baddiel co-hosted Brand's show. Brand was also joined by a variety of celebrity guests, including Noel Gallagher, Noel Fielding, Jonah Hill and Morrissey. Background įrom April 2006 through to October 2008, Russell Brand presented the weekly BBC radio show The Russell Brand Show, with co-host Matt Morgan. On 30 October, the BBC suspended Ross without pay for twelve weeks. Both Brand and Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas resigned from the BBC. The BBC suspended Ross while it and Ofcom launched investigations. Brand and Ross were criticised by a number of MPs, including the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and the BBC received a record number of complaints. The event became known as Sachsgate or Manuelgate (a reference to Sachs' Fawlty Towers character Manuel). The incident initially received little attention, but an article in The Mail on Sunday of 26 October 2008 led to widespread criticism of Brand, Ross and the editorial decisions of the BBC. Brand and Ross called Sachs to interview him on air when he did not answer, they left lewd messages on his answering machine, including comments about Brand's relationship with Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie. We do radio.In a pre-recorded episode of The Russell Brand Show broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 18 October 2008, comedian Russell Brand and television presenter Jonathan Ross made prank calls to actor Andrew Sachs that caused controversy in the United Kingdom. “We’re not laying our careers on the line here. “This is purely an on-air test,” he says.
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The radio show’s executive producer, David Brody, along with Duran’s crew of Skeery Jones, Danielle Monaro, TJ Taormina, Greg T and Garrett Vogel, are all part of the on-air TV team.ĭuran says they haven’t discussed migrating the calls from the TV show onto the radio, but that’s a possibility down the road. “They’re just being themselves and acting in a way they would not act if they knew they were being recorded.” “The best ones are those who are being fun and funny,” he says. The key to a good prank call, he says, is that the person on the other end has to get a little upset and uncomfortable. “We have them all locked up and hidden, and those people say we can’t use it.” “Some of the best will never see the light of day,” says Duran.
If the calls are successful and funny, producers have to get permission to use them on the show. “Some weeks will go by and they can’t get one call. Getting the TV version done, he said, is as difficult as it is for audio. Like the calls on the radio show, Duran vows they’re all real.
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The prank calls in the Spike series are all new. “To see them in their habitat, like an animal in a cage – it’s kind of fun,” he says. It’s amazing to see how people can’t stand still during difficult calls.”ĭuran says having video with the calls accentuates the phone-tap experience. “It makes me listen to the non-videotaped calls in a different manner.
“Once you go into people’s homes and see how animated they are, and flailing their hands, it translates very well,” says Duran.
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