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Well, let me introduce you to my guests. ruby wax, who needs little introduction — actor, comedian, writer, mental health campaigner — and clive tulloh, who worked with ruby as her producer for many years, including on some of those interviews that she did with the likes of donald trump and imelda marcos. i wonder what its like for both of you to be reunited via zoom. well, usually, i touch clive a lot. theres a lot of interaction between our limbs. luckily, hes burnt. his face is like a bee...

Clivey will do anything but... that was too much fun. when i went to america they said would i do a show from behind the desk. thats not my skill, i cant get anything in five minutes. i need to cut a move in. that doesnt exist any more. so i go, ok, thats not my interest. i suppose what i was getting at was, weve talked about rebooting programmes, but do people in front of the camera have to acknowledge the need to reboot sometimes as well to continue their careers? if i was doing more, but im n...

Back an old format - that is really attractive. mark, you are in an interesting position on this, because you have both commissioned and pitched, so youve sat on both sides of the desk on these kings of conversations. yeah, i have. i mean, look, ithink layla said it perfectly. i have worked with layla at itv when we were both in commissioning there. youre playing your odds, arent you? youre looking for some safe bets and youre looking to innovate. if someone presents something to you that is fam...

Its the only reason. look, ive done a lot of ad—funded programming. ive commissioned it and ive made it for a number of broadcasters. and im really interested in this area. we took the decision to take changing rooms out and present it to a broadcaster — channel it in this case — with some money attached. ive pitched other ideas with a tonne of money attached, and broadcasters have still said no. in a way it doesnt matter to them if it isnt a good idea, they might be making a saving in tha...

See now a switch back into more originality again. i think that crest might changel now because i think covid made people more risk—averse. thats all we have time for today. thank you to all my guests — ruby wax, broadcaster and writer, clive tulloh, executive producer of when ruby wax met, layla smith, head of objective media group, and mark sammon, executive producer of changing rooms. the media show back at the same time next week, so thanks very much for watching and goodbye. hello there...

We could have gone in and said, "lets always play that trick, "lets always give them pink or green or purple "when they dont want it." but, actually, we didnt. actually i think thats the key, hopefully, to it sustaining an audience. layla, you mentioned the cube coming back later this year and, as you say, it had the £1 million specials aired last year. again, for those who havent seen it, what does phillip schofield guide the viewer through on a typical episode of the cube? well, the cube, its...

So we would audition the camera men and women and they would come round to rubys house, and then we would walk around the house and they would have to film us. and if ruby said "oh, look at that picture up there", if they didnt swing the camera and look at the picture and then come back to see our reaction, they didnt make the squad. you wanted the camera to have a personality, notjust a piece of dead meat. yeah. and layla, iwonder, given that celebrities in that kind of format were much more pr...

More thrilling to reunite after 20 years. yeah. well, youre both very welcome. layla smith is head of objective media group, part of the tv giant all3media and, before that, she was controller of entertainment at itv. i mean, layla, youre looking after a huge selection of programmes at objective. what are your big hits at the moment? well, like what were talking| about, one of the big things, was bringing the cube| back after many years. so, it was off air for many. years and we bought it back l...

I absolutely dont think its the only reason. look, ive done a lot of ad—funded programming. ive commissioned it and ive made it for a number of broadcasters. im really interested in this area. we took the decision to take changing rooms out and present it to channel it with some money attached. ive pitched other ideas with a tonne of money attached, and broadcasters have still said no. in a way it doesnt matter if it is a good idea, —— isnt a good idea they might be making a saving in that...

On both sides of the desk on this. yeah, i have. i mean, look, ithink layla said it perfectly. i have worked with layla at itv when we were both in commissioning there. youre playing your odds, arent you? youre looking for some safe bets and youre looking to innovate. if someone presents something to you that is familiar, that will pr itself in the way that changing rooms has, or that have a ton of celebrities in, they are all shorthand, they are all shortcuts to get an audience to you. youve st...