Concerns remain that media industry is still failing to confront troubling behaviour• The downfall of Russell Brand: from Big Brother and Hollywood to convicted rapistEven within the culture of casual misogyny and sexism that pervaded the TV world in the mid-noughties, Naomi Harvey and her colleagues concluded they needed to do something about Russell Brand.Harvey was one of a team of researchers tasked with finding fans of Big Brother, Channel 4’s reality TV juggernaut, to appear on the discussion show Big Brother’s Big Mouth, hosted by Brand. Continue reading...