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Few quick notes on Made in Leeds last night and this morning:
Beth Krysta Wilson was fronting 'On the Aire' last night. She's probably the best of their on-screen talents at the moment - most of her reports have been nicely put together, but she needs a little more polish as an anchor. In general, Made need to think about coaching for their on-air people - some of the reporters have the basics down, but sound monotone - it's hard work watching and listening. As before, the story count last night seemed low for a half-hour slot, so reports continue to run long. Oh, and once again, we were told at the end of the 6pm showing that the weather was coming up - it wasn't, it was shoved into the 6.15 ad break instead. Careless.
'The Book-it List' last night was all on location at Leeds Corn Exchange. Production was generally pretty slick - one of the best assembled programmes they've screened from a technical standpoint - but the bulk of the programme centred around three retailers, and had an uncomfortable air of advertorial about it. Quite a nice bit about the history and architecture of the building tacked on in the last two minutes, but this could have been the focus of the programme. An opportunity missed.
'Wake Up Leeds' - the breakfast slot on the EPG - seems to be repeats of.. guess what? 'The Book-it List'... again! But in a weird split screen arrangement, similar to the old BBC Parliament on Freeview. So, as well as the show in the bottom left corner, we have sections for the time/date, scrolling news and scrolling what's ons. Not the tidiest layout, but a fair enough idea. However, attention to detail is lacking. Three out of the four news stories on the scroller were from last week. And no sign of a weather forecast. We had to wait until the 9.30am junction for that.
Bottom line - If I weren't enough of a TV pres anorak to be posting on here, I'd probably have lost patience with them by now. It's not a channel you could watch for pleasure.
Beth Krysta Wilson was fronting 'On the Aire' last night. She's probably the best of their on-screen talents at the moment - most of her reports have been nicely put together, but she needs a little more polish as an anchor. In general, Made need to think about coaching for their on-air people - some of the reporters have the basics down, but sound monotone - it's hard work watching and listening. As before, the story count last night seemed low for a half-hour slot, so reports continue to run long. Oh, and once again, we were told at the end of the 6pm showing that the weather was coming up - it wasn't, it was shoved into the 6.15 ad break instead. Careless.
'The Book-it List' last night was all on location at Leeds Corn Exchange. Production was generally pretty slick - one of the best assembled programmes they've screened from a technical standpoint - but the bulk of the programme centred around three retailers, and had an uncomfortable air of advertorial about it. Quite a nice bit about the history and architecture of the building tacked on in the last two minutes, but this could have been the focus of the programme. An opportunity missed.
'Wake Up Leeds' - the breakfast slot on the EPG - seems to be repeats of.. guess what? 'The Book-it List'... again! But in a weird split screen arrangement, similar to the old BBC Parliament on Freeview. So, as well as the show in the bottom left corner, we have sections for the time/date, scrolling news and scrolling what's ons. Not the tidiest layout, but a fair enough idea. However, attention to detail is lacking. Three out of the four news stories on the scroller were from last week. And no sign of a weather forecast. We had to wait until the 9.30am junction for that.
Bottom line - If I weren't enough of a TV pres anorak to be posting on here, I'd probably have lost patience with them by now. It's not a channel you could watch for pleasure.