The Ricky Gervais podcast has passed 2 million downloads:
“Usually, in order to be heard by millions of people you have to do a show on Radio 1 or Radio 2,” said Gervais. “The problem is, those stations expect you to be competent and professional. We had to find a way around that.” …
“To have such a huge success with a podcast so early in the medium’s development is enormously encouraging,” said Emily Bell, the editor in chief of Guardian Unlimited.
“Guardian Unlimited’s approach to podcasting, as with all new opportunities that the internet opens, is that we want to challenge assumptions and exceed expectations of what a newspaper website is and what it can deliver.”
Challenge assumptions, indeed.
: And by the way, a great new line from Pilkington delivering monkey news in the latest ‘cast: “A chimp off the old block.”
