Steven in the glass box again this morning. Surprising considering they’ve been trailing Kay as in Washington all week. In actual fact, she only did 3 days. Interesting that the unpopular Kay Burley graphic from earlier this week hasn’t resurfaced. Have to say, I really like Steven. Particularly his pairing with Gillian. Would like to see him teamed up with Kay sometime. I imagine that would be an interesting dynamic
Nick Quraishi did the Early Rundown today as a result which I think is probably a first.
I have to say as well I’m not sure Kay’s show from Washington has really been warranted, to stand there for 3 hours, looking freezing, during what is the early hours 3am-6am (2am-5am next week). It’s added very little in my opinion and considering she’ll need to be off for two weeks when she does arrive back in the UK; I’m not sure it’s worth her missing two weeks of shows. I’d have sent another anchor, to co-anchor the breakfast show (Sally Lockwood is already there or even someone like Gamal or Isabel), allowing Kay to stay in Westminster, especially considering the UK news agenda is still pretty busy.
Yeah, I don't understand why they think it's important to have her (or anyone) standing in Washington at 3am to read links and conduct
DTL interviews with people in the UK. Most of her programme turns out to be UK news, anyway.
I'm sure the average viewer really won't care whether she's reading the news from Washington, Westminster or her bedroom. (Especially as everyone is so used to seeing people on TV talking from their homes these days).
I can understand them discussing the US election outcome more next week when it happens. But I think this week, and overall, the majority of UK viewers are more interested in the busy domestic news scene and the virus.
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