GB News may have ditched its “comedy” news show Headliners, but the channel has ambitious plans to ensure that its output is more than just Nigel Farage-worship, rants about migrant boats and weirdo conspiracy theories.
One idea is a regular show hosted by former Tory minister and Brexit architect Michael Gove, who now edits the Spectator, also owned by GB News boss Paul Marshall. Gove’s last gig as a presenter was on Channel 4’s flop series A Stab in the Dark in 1992, where he shared duties with David Baddiel and Tracey MacLeod.
Gove wouldn’t even need to update his material to satisfy the reactionary GBeebies crowd. One of his monologues from A Stab… claimed: “Everything about the army is designed to attract gays. Gays attract each other by dressing in a certain way. Cropped hair, moustache and a peaked cap. Put them together and what have you got? Lord Kitchener. Far from punishing homosexual activity, the army ought actually to be encouraging it… Homosexuals will fight better because they’ve no family to worry about and all those men to impress.”
