PJE's Booker Blog

MI5 not Booker Prize

The winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize will be revealed on Tuesday evening, but there will be no television coverage again this year - unless you count the Ten O'Clock News briefly cutting to the announcement of the winner that is...

Huw Edwards: And now over to London's Guildhall to find out who's won this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction.

Howard Davies: ...and the winner is Ni...

Huw Edwards: The winner of this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction there. Presumably A Curious Earth, by Gerard Woodward, was excluded for being too well-written. Now for the national and international weather, followed by the weather in your area...

It's no wonder I still haven't got round to going digital. I keep thinking about buying a freeview box, but I really don't want all those extra channels - there's nothing on them worth watching. What exactly is the point of BBC4 if even they can't be arsed with the biggest literary event of the year?

Is it really a coincidence that Tuesday's ceremony clashes with the start of new series of Spooks on BBC1? Or a smelly cover-up? Could the BBC be conspiring to kill off a rival form of entertainment by denying books the oxygen of publicity? We should be told.

Labels: BBC, Booker Prize, Spooks

posted by PJE @ 10:17 PM