Blue blood vs blue hair

29th September 2004

 

 

Marge Simpson is to record the alternative Christmas speech.

 

She's a level-headed matriarch with wayward offspring (except for the daughter, who's the sensible one) and a bungling husband who always puts his foot in it.

 

So it's no wonder that Channel 4 have chosen Marge Simpson to go up against the Queen with an alternative Christmas speech.

 

Simpsons animators are to make a ten-minute special for the high-profile slot, which C4 tends to use to promote its own shows.

 

Producers say the Christmas message - which will also feature Homer, Bart, Lisa and Maggie ¼ is the first time they've produced a tailor-made special of that length.

 

Channel 4 paid around £700,000 an episode to snatch terrestrial rights to the show from BBC TWO earlier this year, and will be keen to exploit the coup as much as possible.

 

Previous alternative messages have been given by Quentin Crisp, The Rev Jesse Jackson, Ali G and, less impressively, a couple from Wife Swap.

Um.. What?

Marge simpson doing the queens speech, except on channel 4.. y'know

That's fucking awesome!! I love the Simpsons. Does anyone remember the old Xmas cd they did back in the late 80's, I played the crap out of that thing!!

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woah does anyone actually watch the queen's speech? i had no idea! so boring and english :dozey: :P