judicial reform plans. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start with the news that the celebrated british tv presenter and comedian paul o grady has died at the age of 67. in a statement, his partner andre portasio said he passed away unexpectedly but peacefully on tuesday evening and thanked fans for all the love they have shown him over the years . paul o grady first came to fame as a drag artist before becoming a talk show presenter. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba looks back at his life and career. he first came to fame as the charismatic drag queen lily savage. the act, honed in a succession of pubs, had to be toned down for tv but it was as acerbic and acid tongued as ever. so i m stood having a drink and i looked over and here s ulrika walked in the door, wearing the same frock as me. i didn t even know she had a littlewoods catalogue, i was flaming. lily fast became an audience favourite, hosting some of tv s best known shows. it s thursday, it s 7pm, it
housed on former military bases instead of hotels in new plans due to be announced later. germany prepares for the first state visit by king charles since becoming monarch. israel s prime minister reacts angrily to comments by the us president who urged him to walk away from his controversial judicial reform plans. amsterdam warns rowdy british sex and drug tourists to stay away in a digital discouragement campaign targeting men aged 18 to 35. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start with the news that the celebrated british tv presenter and comedian paul o grady has died at the age of 67. in a statement his partner andre portasio said he died unexpectedly but peacefully on tuesday evening and thanked fans for all the love they have shown him over the years . paul o grady first came to fame as a drag artist before becoming he first came to fame as the charismatic drag queen lily savage. the act, honed in a succession of pubs, had to be toned down for tv but it was as acerbi
we ask the experts. good morning. one of the most famous victories in scotland s history as they maintained their perfect start to euros qualifying with victory over spain at hampden park. and after sleeping outdoors for three years, the boy in the tent is coming back inside having raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. good morning. it is a mild and murky start to the day today, many of us will have cloud with some rain in the forecast, windy and temperatures higher than yesterday. tv presenter and comedian paul o grady has died at the age of 67. in a statement, his partner andre portasio said he passed away unexpectedly but peacefully yesterday evening and thanked fans for all the love they have shown him over the years . our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba looks back at his life and career. he said came to fame as the charismatic drag queen lily savage. the act had to be turned down the tv but it was as acerbic and acid tongue as ever. i walked in a
not if there was a funny idea. what is wrong with you? there s so much different storytelling and so many different stories being told about so many different people. i don t think dramatic series television has ever been stronger. there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there is so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long
Listen to it. They know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, goodbye to the 80s. Will this horrible year never end . When the 90s begin, were starting to see a lot of experimentation. Five, four, three, two, one the simpsons in some sense was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television but distrust. Tv respects me. It laughs with me, not at me. Youre stupid. Doh i think the Sitcoms Of The 80s were such a sort of warm safe humor. You see, the kids they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. And i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. We were able to spoof fatherhood. What a bad father. Which at the time and i stress at the time was bill cosby as a shining example. Did you ever know that youre my hero the stuff they got away with because its a cartoon, the father strangling the child. Why, you little we are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American Family to make American Families a lot more like the waltons and a lot less like