But he's regularly one to bite the hand that feeds the Hat Trick production company. Beating up publicity for Boomers, he told the Independent that the BBC Trust had a history of making “unhelpful comments to justify their existence”.
“To legislate for comedy or drama by saying it’s ‘too blue collar’ or ‘too middle class’ or ‘too posh’ – on that basis you’d be doing comedy with a slide rule. You wouldn’t have Downton Abbey or Outnumbered. Actually doing quality stuff is what’s important. I think the BBC Trust is too middle class.”
A BBC Trust spokesman responded thus: "Our recent review of BBC Television did not say that BBC drama or comedy are ‘too middle class’; some participants in our audience research expressed this view. We found that BBC TV as a whole is performing very strongly. Since the BBC aims to offer something for everyone, we also said that BBC television should seek to improve its appeal to younger, minority ethnic and lower income viewers."
Jimmy's Twitter style can also be a bit "in yer face".
I know Conchita was making a statement about freedom in the face of repression & it's great she won but EuroV is still a celebration of tat.
— Jimmy Mulville (@hattrickster) May 10, 2014
If only Bonnie Tyler hadn't shaved before last years competition...it could have been so different.
— Jimmy Mulville (@hattrickster) May 10, 2014
Was Phil Neville the voice coach on recent BBC dramas?
— Jimmy Mulville (@hattrickster) June 14, 2014
#Brasil2014 Out of Seedorf, Henry and Ferdinand, I'm struggling most with Ferdinand's English.
— Jimmy Mulville (@hattrickster) June 18, 2014
#Brasil2014 am at the São Paulo stadium which looks like it was knocked up by the same people who put my kitchen in.
— Jimmy Mulville (@hattrickster) July 9, 2014
Tonight won't be the first time hundreds of Germans have had to hide out in Brazil. Just saying.
— Jimmy Mulville (@hattrickster) July 8, 2014
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