DB7

Michael Parkinson, Des Lynam and Leslie Phillips are among the TV veterans named in the Queen's New Year honours list published today - along with former Neighbours star Kylie Minogue.

Parkinson, who presented his last ever chatshow on ITV1 earlier this month, is knighted, as is Nicholas Kenyon, the former controller of BBC Radio 3 and head of the BBC Proms, who is now managing director of the Barbican.

Minogue, who appeared alongside David Tennant in this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special but has long been known as a singer rather than an actor, receives an OBE, as does Lynam, the former Match of the Day presenter who is now one of the faces of pay-TV operator, Setanta Sport.

Elsewhere in the media industry there are OBEs for BBC News presenter George Alagiah and Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey, for services to British journalism and British fashion in the US. OBEs also go to Pie in the Sky actor Richard Griffiths and Roy Dotrice, who was in 1980s US series Beauty and the Beast.

Phillips, famous for his seductively drawled catchphrase "Hellooo" receives a CBE. There are also CBEs for fellow actor Julie Walters and playwright, author and director Hanif Kureishi. Sir Ian McKellen becomes a Companion of Honour.

Parkinson, 72, who presented his first chatshow in 1971, was tipped for a knighthood earlier this month.

More than 5 million viewers saw his last ever show on ITV1 when he looked back on some of his most famous and best-remembered guests. He has also stepped down from his Sunday morning show on BBC Radio 2.

Kenyon oversaw the BBC Proms from 1996 until earlier this year, when he stepped down to become the new managing director of the Barbican.

A former music critic for the New Yorker and chief music critic of the Observer, he was controller of Radio 3 between 1992 and 1999 and was awarded a CBE in 2001.

There is also an OBE for Bob Hutchinson, former vice-chairman of the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Committee and defence correspondent of the Press Association during the Falklands war.

Dame Starry

OK, I'm going to ask first - what happened to Sir Brucie?

I'm revolting and shall refuse to use my Damehood again until Brucie gets the title he deserves!

YSL x.

batman

Another baffling list ... why a K for Parkinson and not for Leslie Phillips ... ding gong!

Bats.

I wish I had claws.

Windthrop

According to the press he's getting his K in the birthday honours later this year

I suppose Parky is higher profile

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julian_craster

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Of relevance to Britmovie.......congrats to the following:


Sir Ian McKellen becomes a Companion of Honour, while veteran star Leslie Phillips, 83, has become a CBE.

Chat show host Michael Parkinson is knighted

Playwright and author Hanif Kureishi - best known for his 1990 novel
The Buddha of Suburbia - becomes a CBE.

Julie Walters [made CBE ] is renowned for playing character roles

Stage and screen star Richard Griffiths is made an OBE, along with
Tony-winning character actor Roy Dotrice.

The brother and sister team behind the James Bond films, Barbara Broccoli
and Michael Wilson, are both made OBEs, as is Iain Smith, the producer
behind movies such as The Fifth Element and Children of Men.

Veteran cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, 94, whose work ranges from 1949
Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets to 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade, is made an OBE.

On television, BBC News presenter George Alagiah and former Grandstand host Des Lynam also become OBEs.


No Lord Winner this time.....sorry Michael !

smudge

Julie Walters is renowned for playing Julie Walters....

She gets a CBE yet there's good old Dougie Slocombe with his huge career and just a measly OBE. Never a great fan of Roy Dotrice but I think an OBE is a little on the lame side for him, too.

Smudge

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

Marky B

I agree,Smudge. I thought a tap on the shoulders from Her Majesty's sword for Leslie Phillips would have been more worthy than a CBE. Again,nothing for John Barry or Petula Clark.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

DB7

I suppose we don't know which people may have turned down the offer of a gong.

Parky does little for me and "5 million viewers saw his last ever show" is hardly an indication he was in the public's affection.

Really glad for Leslie Phillips tho, bless the old letch.

connoisseur

So, at last, someone who deserves it.
An OBE for cinematographer Douglas Slocombe at the ripe old age of ninety four. Did many of the early Ealing comedies. Worth a medal in themselves.
Amongst his works:
Dead Of Night
Kind Hearts And Coronets
Hue and Cry
The Lavender Hill Mob
It Always Rains On Sunday
The Man In The White Suit
The Titfield Thunderbolt
The Smallest Show On Earth
THe L Shaped Room
The Servant

Also The Italian Job, The Music Lovers and the Indiana Jones films in later works.
Not a bad body of work and I have omitted several other notables.

Marky B

Congrats to Richard Griffiths for his OBE,another local lad to be proud of.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Windthrop

Even if he does bad-mouth Stockton in the press

Winner of'There Is Nothing Like A Dame' Quiz revealed

Marky B

Does he?
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Windthrop

"Griffiths has no love for the 'ignorant, rough' North and hasn't been back to his home town since his parents died in 1976" Telegraph 25/02/2007.

Bit of a generalisation I thought

Winner of'There Is Nothing Like A Dame' Quiz revealed

DB7

From the interviews I've read he comes over fairly bitter and arrogant, but I've wondered if it's just an act as I've seen him give contrasting views of his parents. I'm not sure if the actor Griffiths and character Monty are that far apart (except the sexuality).

stevie boy

I do find it remarkable that these two legends are not recognised again