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Newscaster of the.......Millennium

Those of you who know me well will know why I’ve chosen my 9747th post to be my last on this particular forum.

Apart from that slightly obvious reason, there’s another. And that is that the impending closure of TVF is - oddly - causing me anxiety. Lol. And I also don’t know why.

Well, I do actually. Since the turn of the millennium (give or take a year), TV Forum has been a place we’ve all visited from time to time. Some of us have visited practically hourly for those 20-odd years (Brekkie).

And all of a sudden, it feels like someone is dying. And I’m going to miss this place. I’d like to thank each and every one of you for your friendship and debate over the years. It’s been a blast.

Another odd reason for the anxiety is that as the clock ticks down to the last day: what will the last post be? Who will be the last poster? Who will be the last new member to join? Who will be the last person to be banned from the forum? And so on.....

Thanks once again to Asa and the team for giving us this playground in which to indulge our passion. I wish you all the best. And I’ll be one of the first to post over on the new TV Live Forum when it opens. It’ll be a new era and it’ll be fab too. Rob will make sure of that. (I taught him everything).

I’ll read the last weeks of this forum with delight and from afar and wish you all the best, folks.

And for one last time, three categories only. 3 ONLY!!!!

Overall Best Newscaster of this new Millennium 2000 to 2021:

ZEINAB BADAWI

Overall Best News Programme of this new Millennium 2000 to 2021:

THE WORLD TODAY (BBC WORLD NEWS - 2001)

Overall Best News Music of this new Millennium 2000 to 2021:

ITN NEWS (CURRENT)

The BBC World News Thread

Interesting HardTalk airing in my region right now. Stephen Sackur is interviewing the acting President of Kosovo DTL. She’s seated in a fancy backdrop - not unlike Christian Fraser’s London night time backdrop - in Pristina, in what appears to be a proper news studio set. And she’s definitely a wannabe News Anchor. She handles the camera extremely well. Unlike any other guest I’ve ever seen.

Also, the white flipper is continually on screen but broken, the BBC World News red DOG is also constantly on screen and the semi-opaque black strap (which normally animates with the presenter’s name) is also stuck constantly on screen.

Are these elements added-in centrally or by sub-regions geographically?

The Sky News Thread

Boulton bolted?

GMB | Patsy Palmer “Walk-off”

This ongoing “story” is buried in the unrelated Piers Morgan thread (albeit Patsy did say “I’m doing a Piers Morgan..”)

Patsy and Piers aside, but in presentational and editorial terms, don’t the guests get to see (or be told) in advance as to how their names will appear on screen or how they will be introduced to the audience? I always presumed that their agents or representatives would rubber stamp every detail from a pres perspective before allowing their talent to go in front of the camera.

Based on today’s episode, clearly not!

Must be a nightmare for production and editors to try to keep everything balanced.

On live programmes (such as GMB), which role generally decides the precise text to be shown on screen? Editor?

Loose Women Wins RTS Award

Well deserved. Seems that some of the recent changes to the format may have made a difference.

Congratulations to @ITV’s @loosewomen for their Daytime Programme award win! Judges said the show “makes a real connection with its audience – making them laugh, making them think” #RTSAwards pic.twitter.com/yFkPDoGjjI

— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) March 16, 2021

BBC News - Venetian Blinds and Chinese Lanterns

She may have lost her Venetian blinds, but BIG MOIRA still has her (white) Chinese lantern here in September 1988:


But not for long. Two months later, lanterns, blinds and the old news set is gone forever. But BIG MOIRA is still there.

The Sky News Thread

Sky News reporting Duke of Edinburgh has left hospital.

As for Sky News itself and specifically Kimberley Leonard, I agree that she’s one of the most capable and calm presenters on Television News at the moment.

If future changes allow, I’d love to see Kimberley in Live at Five/Six territory.

Understated and extremely capable.

Piers Morgan to leave GMB

Someone just asked me if I could name another breakfast television presenter in the UK, USA or anywhere in the world who is as incendiary (my word) or controversial (my friend’s word) as Piers Morgan.

I have to say, I wracked my brain and couldn’t come up with an answer to that! I’ll admit to not being a huge watcher of breakfast television ‘formats‘ anywhere, preferring a News Channel.

I could recall “big names” such as Robyn Roberts, Gayle King, Matt Lauer etcetera. But could I name a breakfast television format/personality as fiery as Piers? Nope. I couldn’t. Can any of you? (Specifically breakfast television anywhere in the world).

Maybe that’s what made GMB globally unique.

I stand to be corrected.

Back in the days before news channels, I always assumed we all preferred a bit fluffier content to ease us into the day. And if the day’s news story was big enough, it would still be covered adequately by the GMTV’s, TV-am’s and Selina Scotts of the world.

And, as David mentions, rigidity to the timings so we could all plan our slices of toast and bus timings based on routine segments.

Fully-blown Piers at 06:30am was quite a departure from the norm.

I’m still trying to think of someone........

Downing Street Briefing Room

I've seen worse, TBH. The White House Press Room for one.

Piers Morgan to leave GMB

I’ve changed the thread title back to its original.

BBC News - Venetian Blinds and Chinese Lanterns

By 1987, the weekend bulletins shared the Six set and fixtures.



“The Pesch”.

The BBC World News Thread

Indeed. Jane presented on World at weekends (albeit rarely) around the turn of the century, if I’m not mistaken. (Apart from her overnight simulcasting duties from 97 to 99).