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Peston on Sunday to move to Wednesdays

It will be interesting to see how the format of the new Wednesday version differs from the current Sunday version. Part of the reason for having these political programmes on a Sunday morning is that they can react to what's been published in the Sunday papers. I like the idea of having a political programme on a Wednesday. With QT and TW on BBC One on Thursdays - you could be forgiven for thinking UK politics only happens on a Thursday! How much time the new Peston programme will dedicate to PMQs will be interesting. By 22:35 it might be considered old news already.

Having said all of that, there are natural television presenters and there are television presenters who eventually "get it" with experience. Peston falls into neither of these categories, unfortunately. You can be the best journalist in the world - and he's probably one of them - but it doesn't make you right for television presenting.

Peston on Sunday to move to Wednesdays

It will be interesting to see how the format of the new Wednesday version differs from the current Sunday version. Part of the reason for having these political programmes on a Sunday morning is that they can react to what's been published in the Sunday papers. I like the idea of having a political programme on a Wednesday. With QT and TW on BBC One on Thursdays - you could be forgiven for thinking UK politics only happens on a Thursday! How much time the new Peston programme will dedicate to PMQs will be interesting. By 22:35 it might be considered old news already.

Having said all of that, there are natural television presenters and there are television presenters who eventually "get it" with experience. Peston falls into neither of these categories, unfortunately. You can be the best journalist in the world - and he's probably one of them - but it doesn't make you right for television presenting.