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Bit Extra. Leading Britain's Conversation. You're listening to our podcast of Steve Allen.

Morning everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today, Monday, the 17th of January.

So, as you probably heard on the main show this morning, what a disastrous weekend. It could

not have got any worse. It really couldn't. Anyway, if you didn't hear that, you'll have to go

back and podcast it. Worth hearing, I promise you, because I certainly won't be the only person in that situation but uh the difference is i've got a program

to air my my views on so anyway uh anyway simon cowell has agreed to remain on britain's got

talent till 2025 oh god we've got to suffer with more East European circuses because that's

where most of it comes from until the deal is extended. Also, no, the show's deal has been extended

and so they've got another 12 months to find us another bunch of deadbeats. I mean, to be honest with

it, it really was. It was pitifully awful last year,

because every time you got a circus act on there, they weren't from here. They were from,

they'd been touring Czechoslovakia and places like that. And it was a case of, you know,

then they put some singers on and you think, wait a minute, that's the other show. No,

because they're padding it out. Yeah, I mean, some people even had

music contracts before they put them on the television. I mean, to be honest, me, they actually

should have kicked it into touch a long time ago. But, you know, listen, it gives people work.

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