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She thought i was just a journalist. from that moment, she took my hand, she took me to parliament, she covered me in herjewellery. i mean, clive, that was clever. ruby, i was wondering about those like yourself in front of the camera. weve talked about changing trends and particular programmes being reinvented and coming back. how much are you conscious of that need to adapt as fashions change in terms of what you do in front of the camera? well, i wanted to produce after my show finished. �*...

"do we freshen up a format?" when its a game show... it might be different for ruby and clive with celebrity- interview, thats about really brilliant interview, isnt it? l but i dont think that - happened with the cube. so, actually, its not so much that the format is broken, . but actually, viewers do demand a freshness to their content. - they dont just want the same thing, ad infinitum, and thats i think what happened with the cube. - itjust didnt have a fresh- view, and thats what we did. ru...

When you got there as well? we were lucky. it was... we had a pretty good budget, it was bbc one prime time. i run an independent company now, but we were making it in—house at the bbc. sometimes think, would i have taken the risks that i did then? we flew to manila, ten of us, and wed been offered half an hour with imelda. with imelda marcos, yeah. you didnt tell me that, clive. clive just gets me to the door and kicks me in like someone who says... its just cruel. go ahead. ruby said to me b...

On bbc news, time for the media show. hello. have you turned on the television recently and thought it all looked a little bit familiar? laurence llewelyn—bowen boisterously doing up peoples living rooms, ruby wax looking back at celebrity interviews that she did in the past, and then, look whats coming up — never mind the buzzcocks, blankety blank, sex and the city — its a very long list. so, welcome to the era of the reboot, an age when tv executives seem to be pouring over dog—eared c...

Of a coincidence. so she picked it up and went "oh! shes on the cover of hello!" she thought i was just a journalist. from that moment, she took my hand, she took me to parliament, she pretty much, she covered me in her jewellery. i mean, clive, that was clever. ruby, i was wondering about those like yourself in front of the camera. weve talked about changing trends and particular programmes being reinvented and coming back. how much are you conscious of that need to adapt as fashions change in ...

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...

About, clearly some of that wasnt cheap — you were jetting off all over the world, often without much advance warning. and you werent always sure you would get the interview when you got there as well. no, no, we were lucky. it was... it was the early 90s, we had a pretty good budget, it was bbc one prime time. i run an independent company now, but we were making it in—house at the bbc. i sometimes think, would i have taken the risks that i did then if it was my own company? we flew to manil...

With all shows, is you tend to look at it and think, | "how can we improve? "does it need _ something changing up? "do we change elements of it? "do we freshen up a format?" when its a game show... it might be different for ruby and clive with celebrity- interview, thats about really brilliant interview, isnt it? l but i dont think that - happened with the cube. so, actually, its not so much that the format is broken, . but actually, viewers do demand a freshness to their content. - they dont ju...

The advent of social media. with social media now, you just couldnt do that any more, could you. no, ijust think theres so much control and theres so much... you just couldnt get the access. cause the reason this series came back was that we started to look into, our commissioning editor, michaeljochnowitz, whos a big ruby fan, was like — "weve gotta get ruby back on." lets do re—meets, so we were gonna try and go back and see some of pamela and roseanne, and a couple of them were interested...

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...