Yep, a lot of people are under the impression that I am paid for repeats of Father Ted and The IT Crowd but nope. It wasn't so much my agent's fault as that was the way it was done after TV Channels decided they couldn't afford paying the kind of sums that David Croft and Jimmy Perry received for Dad's Army repeats. I received no money for my show 'Count Arthur Strong' going to Netflix, because I was still paying off the money I got for writing it for the BBC (who didn't repeat it, because again they didn't want to pay me for it). Thank God for Substack
I had a feeling that must have been what happened (I've done a bit of media/IP law in the past). What an unfortunate and shitty thing to have happened all round, though.
Yep, a lot of people are under the impression that I am paid for repeats of Father Ted and The IT Crowd but nope. It wasn't so much my agent's fault as that was the way it was done after TV Channels decided they couldn't afford paying the kind of sums that David Croft and Jimmy Perry received for Dad's Army repeats. I received no money for my show 'Count Arthur Strong' going to Netflix, because I was still paying off the money I got for writing it for the BBC (who didn't repeat it, because again they didn't want to pay me for it). Thank God for Substack
I had a feeling that must have been what happened (I've done a bit of media/IP law in the past). What an unfortunate and shitty thing to have happened all round, though.
It's why I'll be going to court to fight the cancellation of the Father Ted Musical. That was my pension.
And once again we are back to the punishment meted out to people who aren't upper-middle-class.
I don't blame you one bit for "going to law", as they say. I hope you're being soundly advised.
Thank you!
Geoffrey Rush seems to have been pretty cancelled.
Even though he won his defamation case, yes. Good Australian example.
I thought he won the case but then more allegations came out? (And I'd assume he's pretty insulated by wealth too).
Oh, I wasn't aware of any further allegations - I only followed the trial.
Saw Darren J Bettle's question on twitter, and immediate thought that the word alive has excluded some of the more serious cancellations.
Someone like Aaron Swartz.
Someone made a related (tongue-in-cheek) point in a UK context, by suggesting Charles I.
"Watson was forced to put his Nobel Prize medal up for auction after being cancelled for drawing a link between IQ and race"
Incorrect. These were completely unrelated.
What happened, then?
He sold his medal one year after [the estate of] Francis Crick sold his.
He wanted to donate the proceeds to Cold Spring Harbour, where he spent a significant part of his career, for research.
Consistent with his crabby, Scots-Irish heritage, he was gratified that his went for more money than that of Francis'!
You can find Jared Taylor on Amren, and Anglin on Unz.com
Stefan Molyneux years me up. he always felt like a decent guy to me with eccentric views but interesting takes at times.
I didn't investigate him. but it felt quite unfair what they did to him