It looks like Mark Longhurst could be departing itv Westcountry as there is a job listing for a main presenter to sit alongside Kylie on the itv careers website.
I do think Mark has not been the right co-host for Kylie though. I've only briefly seen them together but they don't seemed to have gelled as well as Ian and Kylie did.
Jonty Messer is a good partnership with Kylie I think. Though it's likely we'll get someone else completely given it's up for external candidates again.
Sadly I don't think they have given it time. Good partnerships don't happen overnight. But perhaps there are other reasons linked to the decision. When I spotted the advert I thought it would be Kylie moving on.
ITV West Country bosses? Mark & Kylie themselves? Or what?
I'm most inclined to assume that Mark himself has chosen to leave. I'm sure it's not uncommon for people to start a new job, and relatively quickly find that e.g. it's not what they expected / they struggle to gel with colleagues / they don't like it (etc) and therefore fairly soon (maybe after "giving it a chance" for 6 months/12 months/whatever) start job-hunting again and leave in favour of something that will hopefully be more suitable. I've certainly been through that process more than once in my life.
The apparent implication that ITV West Country will have given him his marching orders, I think doubtful. Unless perhaps there have been plummeting ratings and/or negative viewer feedback since his arrival? (I for one have found him to be rather staid for my liking, and less inclined to stick around for the full 30-minutes on days that he's presenting)
So many times when changes have been made to line ups it's not been a great success. The Westcountry team of Richard and Alexis were great a real genuine feel to it, then you got the other extreme of Donal Mcyntyre and Katie Derham was just painful to watch
An odd Inside Out tonight. Instead of the usual Jemma Woodman fronted edition, the SW got a BBC South production about the Great Storm presented by Michael Fish.
An odd Inside Out tonight. Instead of the usual Jemma Woodman fronted edition, the SW got a BBC South production about the Great Storm presented by Michael Fish.
An odd Inside Out tonight. Instead of the usual Jemma Woodman fronted edition, the SW got a BBC South production about the Great Storm presented by Michael Fish.
I believe it’s called cost cutting.
No it’s called marking the 30th anniversary of the 1987 Great Storm, and since the South, West, South West, London & The South East all suffered that storm, it makes perfect sense to make one single programme and share it between the affected regions, rather than each region doing their own thing.
