Why Do They Always Pick on Carol Vorderman?

The producers of Countdown, the UK game show, have offered Carol Vorderman a new contract at a 90% pay cut. She has refused.

It's pretty obvious that they don't want her to continue as they would have offered a more realistic pay cut (she suggested 35% - the budget cut percentage across all of C4) and are looking to produce a leaner, meaner show.

I seem to remember that Tomorrow's World thought they could do without Carol, using the fact she had an alleged conflict of interest to fire her. They subsequently asked her to return after the ratings plummeted. She refused.

Do they realize Carol won't budge? Or are they fooling themselves?

It doesn't really matter - the bad publicity from this and the celebrities that are backing Carol means that a) the management are going to look silly whatever happens, b) their authority is undermined and c) they will have their wish and their viewership will be leaner, the meaner ones having left!

"Birds of Prey" TV Show Coming Out on DVD

I was excited when I found out the TV show "Birds of Prey" is coming out on DVD in July. I had hoped when they cancelled the series that they would bring it out then. They didn't and I'd given up hope.

In case you didn't know "Birds of Prey" is based on the DC comic books. Oracle (formerly Batgirl, now in a wheelchair), Huntress (the daughter of Batman and Catwoman) and Dinah (a telepath amongst other things, plus someone stole her superhero name!) protect New Gotham City after Batman left.

I put together a Squidoo lens - http://www.squidoo.com/birds-of-prey. I don't think it will get a lot of traffic because one of the reasons they cancelled "Birds of Prey" was declining viewership. It was nice to rediscover it again though!