Michael Palin has shared that he could be departing Channel 5 as the broadcaster is set to move it's operations to somewhere that would not be convenient for the Monty Python star. He told Radio Times : “Channel 5 are currently working out somewhere really uncomfortable for me to go to next, in a location I can’t disclose. That could be the last journey, but who knows? Everything has been ‘the last journey.
’” “For me, informing is a matter of working hard with a good team to make something that people want to watch. If you educate people and they say, ‘You’ve changed my mind about this country,’ that’s enormously important. "And to entertain, without trying to sell anyone anything, is a generous impulse.
It’s about connecting with people," he added. The comedy icon and travel presenter says he has come to terms with his own mortality following the passing of his wife of 57 years Helen in 2023, and the death of his dear friend and fellow Python Terry Jones, who passed in 2020 from dementia at the age of 77. Speaking on The Third Act podcast, he said: “I'm aware that I haven't got that long to live.
I could fall down the stairs anytime really, or go under a bus. "I feel physically fine and quite able to deal with it, but that is just a fact of life. So, although you look back in the past, you also look forward and think, ‘What will I do to keep going?’ Touch wood, I will be physically okay with doing another journey, but I might not be.
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