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TV producer slams 'showman' Irwin
News.com.auAAP ^ | November 02, 2006

Posted on 11/01/2006 4:46:25 PM PST by generalhammond

THE executive producer of the BBC's Planet Earth series has branded the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin a "showman" more interested in his own stardom than the animal kingdom.

Alastair Fothergill launched an extraordinary attack on the Australian TV star who was killed by a stingray while making a wildlife program in September.

"What Steve Irwin did for a living was as different from what we do as it's possible to get," he told the Radio Times.

"Let's face it, Steve was a showman. Yes, he introduced a lot of people to natural history, but his basic stock in trade was, 'Aren't I brave, and aren't animals dangerous?' The fact is, I'm not interested in human stars. I'm only interested in animal stars."

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Alastair who? Aren't you sick of these BBC wankers who sip chardonnay discussing whether they prefer Trotsky to Lenin. This is the crap you get when government gets involved with media ownership. Note that class like Sir richard Attenborough rises above the crap.
1 posted on 11/01/2006 4:46:27 PM PST by generalhammond
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To: generalhammond

Well TV producers are the guardians of virtue.


2 posted on 11/01/2006 4:49:49 PM PST by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: generalhammond
'spank the wank'

***slap here***
3 posted on 11/01/2006 4:50:04 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: generalhammond

Sounds like this guy & sKerry have a lot in common!


4 posted on 11/01/2006 4:50:45 PM PST by blondee123 (Politicians are like diapers, need to be changed often & for the same reason!)
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To: generalhammond
And what is *wrong* with being a showman?

I guess, for a lot of these ecofascists just being any man is *wrong*.
5 posted on 11/01/2006 4:51:11 PM PST by marktwain
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I'm only interested in animal stars

So Alastair how do you propose to make animals into stars? Hiding in a Zoo and filming them doing what they do, or going into the wild and seeing what they do.

6 posted on 11/01/2006 4:53:39 PM PST by rocksblues (Do unto others as they do unto you!)
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"I guess, for a lot of these ecofascists just being any man is *wrong*."

How many "animal" shows are staged by eco-, peta-, enviro-, -whackos? Showmen all.

yitbos

7 posted on 11/01/2006 4:55:58 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds. " - Ayn Rand)
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To: generalhammond

It's the age-old story of the purists versus the popularizers. The purists always hate the popularizers for compromising purity to reach the masses, forgetting that the masses are their reason for existence. Oh, wait, come to think of it, who is Alastair Fothergill? No Jane Goodall, that's for sure.

Seriously, though... Irwin is like the old-time zoos, which made people interested in wildlife and exotic environments, but which are now detested by some extremists as "exploiting animals." I've been to some of the PC zoos, and the big problem is... you can't see the animals! They seem to think zoos are some sort of Section 8 Housing program for endangered wildlife!


8 posted on 11/01/2006 5:01:16 PM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: bruinbirdman

peta-whacko?

That's, what? 10^15 times whacko?


9 posted on 11/01/2006 5:02:17 PM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: generalhammond

What a boring wanker this bloke would be!


10 posted on 11/01/2006 5:02:49 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: xcamel

Can I please? Repeatedly?


11 posted on 11/01/2006 5:08:31 PM PST by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: generalhammond
What Professor Feathergirl is saying is that BBC can produce boring crap because taxpayers subsidize them whereas Irwin needed to produce interesting, compelling programing that is commercially successful.
12 posted on 11/01/2006 5:52:11 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: generalhammond

Although I wasn't Irwin's biggest fan,this guy's comments sound like professional (read:financial) envy.


13 posted on 11/01/2006 6:25:26 PM PST by Gay State Conservative ("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
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Alastair Fothergill

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14 posted on 11/01/2006 6:31:53 PM PST by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
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Note that class like Sir richard Attenborough rises above the crap.

Actually Sir David--Sir Richard's brother.

15 posted on 11/01/2006 10:40:15 PM PST by beaversmom
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