And it’s on a screen just a few inches square meaning that Michael O never a giant will be a quarter inch

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Published: October 12, 2010

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And it’s on a screen just a few inches square, meaning that Michael O, never a giant, will be a quarter inch, tops.peter sru.co.uk. The BBC hopes to earn millions of pounds by selling its hit game Celebdaq, which trades “shares” in celebrities such as David Beckham, Jude Law and Zoe Ball, to foreign television companies. US TV production companies are already thought to have offered to buy the show to develop an American version.Now linked to a BBC 3 TV show, more than 250,000 people have become registered as Celebdaq players since the addictive Web-based game was launched last July.Players, including hundreds of City brokers, compete to win a £100 weekly prize for managing “portfolios” of stocks based on famous names by spending virtual money. These “stocks” rise or fall in value based on how much media exposure a celebrity enjoys each day and on the gossip exchanged on the message board.Yesterday, for instance, the rap star Ms Dynamite was worth £23.43, confirming her status as the game’s hottest property, while Elkie Brooks, the Seventies rock star, was valued at just £1 – the minimum price – and was barely traded.But Celebdaq has also raised complaints and accusations that the game is “morally dubious” and “promotes other people’s misery for fun”.Earlier this month, the BBC was forced to apologise after a footballer allegedly involved in a sex scandal was named on the site, breaking a court injunction granting him anonymity, because a player wanted to boost the value of his shares. Prices soar on personal problems, such as Sadie Frost’s well-publicised post-natal depression or Zoe Ball’s marriage break-up.In November, Celebdaq was hit by a share-ramping scandal when the “value” of the actress Patsy Kensit leapt to £4,020, forcing the BBC website to suspend trading in her.Despite the criticisms, the corporation has decided to replace the weekly Celebdaq show with a nightly two- minute slot from tomorrow at the peak time of 7.30pm. Called Market Minutes, its presenter Paddy O’Connell will update players about the latest and most newsworthy trades on the site.BBC Worldwide made £172m from international TV sales last year out of a record total of £660m.

Colin Jarvis, director of programming and operations at the corporation’s commercial arm, said that Celebdaq was now “the talk of the UK” and predicted there would be immense interest in Cannes.”You cannot walk into any workplace around the country without hearing who’s buying shares in whom,” he said “We expect great things from the format.”. Help is at hand for the millions of viewers who will be left mourning the demise of Cold Feet when it ends tonight after five years of addictive viewing. Mike Bullen, the creator of the hit comedy-drama, is to turn his eye from 30-somethings to 40-somethings in not one, but two, new spin-off series. It is about a man, the third of three generations of Georges, hence the title, who finds himself in the position of being both a grandfather and a grandson in his 40s.”Cold Feet was a series in which all six main characters shared more or less the same profile, but Life Begins is mainly about this one woman, though of course I’ll be introducing other characters too,” Mr Bullen said. “It’s a series about a woman who thought she had her life sorted, but is having to come to terms with the fact that it isn’t.

I’ve known women in that position, so to that extent it’s like Cold Feet, which partly came from my experience of the issues you confront in your 30s.”George III is about a bloke in his 40s who’s both a grandad and a grandson, so in the same way that Cold Feet was about a horizontal cross-section of society, this is about a vertical one.”Despite pleas from anguished fans, Mr Bullen says he has no intention of ever bringing back Cold Feet. However, asked if there was a possibility he might one day relent, perhaps by scripting a one-off special, he said: “You can never say never. I swore blind I would not do a fifth series, and now here I am watching it. At this stage, I’ve absolutely no interest in doing any more Cold Feet, whether it’s another series or a one-off.”I’m hoping never to do it again, but in five years’ time, who knows, I might think there’s more to do with one or two of these characters- it might be interesting to see what’s happened to Adam.”He is less equivocal when asked if he hopes to work again with the programme’s stars that includes James Nesbitt, Hermione Norris, Helen Baxendale, John Thomson and Fay Ripley.”I would love to work with them again,” he said “They are all terrific.

There’s not one of them I wouldn’t want to work with again.”. Popbitch, the infamous celebrity gossip website, has issued an appeal for donations after warning its fans that it faces closure unless it raises enough money. Its last accounts, given to Companies House in November for the year ending 31 December 2001, show it lost £1,885 and had debts to creditors due within the year of £5,533. Although the accounts do not disclose Popdog’s turnover or income, they do show it owed Ms Wright £5,498 by the end of 2001.She refused to answer any questions about the state of the company’s finances or the success of the current appeal, but insisted only that “there is no crisis”.She said, however, that the “pledge drive” was the best alternative to enforcing a subscription on users or attempting to attract more advertisers. These options could be expensive to set up, and advertisers might be put off by Popbitch’s controversial reputation.The errors and libellous stories posted either on Popbitch’s message board or on its email bulletins included initially naming the wrong TV presenter as the alleged rapist of Ulrika Jonsson.


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