March 30, 2004
Entertainment Heroes
Sal and me very often talk about past TV and radio shows and entertainment heroes. In the early days (when we were 'courting' - as they used to say), this always ended in the same way: we were both telling each other who the TV entertainment heroes were during our youth years in separate countries.
After more than 6 years in the UK now, things have changes a bit for me - I am used and accustomed ( and bored with !) to most current TV celebs and presenters. However there is still the odd old TV persona that throws me (like Jimmy Saville :-)
What amazes me is that most TV presenters more or less have remained "prophets in their own countries". People here are surprised when I tell them that no one in Germany has ever heard of Michael Parkinson (top left), Terry Wogan or Jeremy Paxman. But has anyone here ever heard of german TV greats such as Thomas Gottschalk (top right), Guenther Jauch or even Harald Schmidt (yes, this name is real !).
A weird thing to get your head around when you grow up and you think that your whole entertainment world evolves around those people (or at least that's what you're made believe!).
So the final question for me then is: is there no european or world-spanning TV presenting celebrity in the same catgegory of those men above? David Letterman perhaps - he certainly has the farthest reach into global househols, I'd say.
Posted by Michael at March 30, 2004 11:37 PM