So I guess Nick Pegg won't be working for BF again?

I don’t expect that BBC has any say in Big Finish’s HR decisions. That said, I also expect that Big Finish probably aren’t going to be going out of their way to antagonize the owner of their biggest licence.

When I say impressive, I mean like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut... No going back!

Cheers

Tony

I have met Nick on several occasions throughout the years and read much of his writing on David Bowie. I find it very difficult to imagine what would've led him to do such an uncharacteristically unprofessional thing.

I rather suspect the full details of this story are destined to go the same way as the truth behind that night shoot on "Rose"...

My reaction too.

There was purportedly an incident during the scene where Henrik's explodes that ran the risk of seriously injuring someone and was the point where CE started to have doubts about the way the show was being made that led to him quitting. (At the appropriate point on the DVD commentary, RTD and Phil Collinson openly acknowledge that something happened and say that someday there's "a whole book" to be written about it.)

Behaviour like that doesn't come from nowhere.  It wasn't just a random act of silliness, it was not only premeditated it took time and effort to execute.

The more I read the more I'm feeling these action were not the product of a well person, others seem to be leaning towards some great injustice (from Nicks perspective) but to call it "just" childish doesn't seem to gel with who Nick is known to be.

But I think it an error to characterise these possible explanations as "explain away", certainly I don't see anyone trivialising or saying Nick just being Nick it will all blow over, or any such thing.

Nick behaviour, whatever it's source, has blown up with force in his direction, BBC Worldwide and Paninni are basically unharmed and will easily forget the whole thing.  But Nick has probably just blown his whole career up, and it could be a long time, if ever, before he can get some semblance back.

To my mind, either he is just a petulant man child much in the mould of Trump, but no one ever noticed before, or there is some reason to explain the action.

Don't presume that BBC Worldwide and Panini are "basically unharmed". They went to great lengths to try to stop this leaking out into the wider world, and there was talk that this could even lead to the magazine closing down.

What sources do you have for this?

I suspect efforts were made to stop this from coming to light in the larger world (although of course, if the Mirror is to be believed, it was published on the DWM website, in full view of the world) but I would expect at least some of that effort was made by Nick's friends trying to protect him.

But I find it hard to believe this incident threatened the very existence of the magazine.

A caustic acrostic that cost Nick a job quick.

But seriously, tho...


Is a stunt like this something magazines and such have to look out for on a regular basis? Does copy-editing software come with a function to scan for this sort of word play?