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BBC Breakfast

m_in_m posted:
They were using the sofa from 0600 on Friday as well and the tree hadn't gone up then.


I just think that they've decided that the desk doesn't work that well for whatever reason and try to use the sofa as often as possible, in the same way that they have abandoned standing at the start of the Six.
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BBC News 8pm 90 seconds slot

Editor of the Ten Craig Oliver has written this blog entry defending the 8pm summary against accusations of dumbing down. It's certainly been controversial, attracting 110 comments!
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The One Show

Yeah, it was great to see some proper Christmas themed titles as most shows don't bother. I liked the rearrangement of the music
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BBC News - General

Also interesting to see some of Sophie's comments in an interview for Your News.

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How do you spend your free time?

I don't have any...as soon as I get home from work, my nanny leaves and I spend the rest of my time looking after my two small children.

So the other half of my day is children's tea parties, the playground, swimming lessons and the supermarket!


Seems like a very busy person!

The only good thing about Your News is that as far as I can see from the website it won't be a feature on the Ten, so at least one bulletin will remain free from such stories.
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BBC News - General

itsrobert posted:
josh205 posted:
Seeing the 'Your News' promo did worry me a bit, especially seeing it on the BBC. I would have thought they would have trashed the idea, especially after the ITV News Uploaded idea has flopped.


Yes, and don't forget ITV's disastrous 'Pulse' thing during the Lunchtime News which encouraged viewers to participate. I, too, would have expected the BBC to avoid this sort of thing. You wouldn't get hospitals asking the public to contribute to surgical procedures, so in my opinion, you shouldn't get them involved in journalism. Journalists are trained in their field, so we should leave it up to them. Reading a few emails out every now and then is fine, but nothing more than that.


On the Your News website(see here)it says:

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The days when we were journalists and you sat back and watched the news are over.


The trouble is that there was nothing at all wrong with 'those days'. There's no need for us to tell them what to do - knowing what to do is there job!
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BBC News - General

itsrobert posted:
By the way, they definitely did the weather. Dan Corbett presented it.


Oh, must have just missed it somehow then.
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BBC News - General

The end of the Six was unusual today. George was promoting the new Your News feature on the show, where people can email in stories (sounds like a bad idea to me, especially if it's going to be like the Your News show on News 24), and we saw a shot of him and the desk superimposed over some video footage so that you couldn't see the rest of the studio at all. Also, is it just me, or did they miss out the weather, I can't remember seeing it?
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BBC Breakfast

Spencer For Hire posted:
dragonhhjh posted:


Ah, the Zapf Dingbats snowflake strikes again.


I agree that the snowflakes aren't good, but on the other hand I quite like the tree.

Also, according to the Radio Times Bill Turnbull's presenting on Christmas Day again! I wonder what they'd do if he wouldn't come in one year. Susanna Reid is on New Years Day, and Charlie Stayt on Boxing Day.
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BBC News 24

Newsroom posted:
Why won't she be returning whoever it was?


She's moving to do the 8pm bulletin. On her website it says;

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Kate Silverton will present the new 8pm bulliten from 10th December to March 2008 when she will present the One O'Clock News while Sophie Raworth takes maternity leave. Kate will continue to report for Panorama and carry out more foreign assignments for BBC News.


As you can see, no mention of further News 24 work, so it looks like, except for maybe the odd cover shift, she won't be appearing any longer.
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BBC News 24

Moz posted:
nat210790 posted:
Recorded bulletin now on BBC News 24

So what happened then? Fire alarm?


Not sure why it happened at all. It wasn't explained when they came back live again and no obvious changes were present on screen that they could have made.

On a different topic who presented the morning shift this morning instead of Kate, as it seems she won't be returning. Was it Carrie?
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BBC Breakfast

Out of interest, when Dermot leaves Breakfast would anyone like to see anyone other than Bill, Charlie or Simon appear, either during the week or at the weekend, maybe even someone who's outside the BBC at the moment. I think Nicholas Owen and Tim Willcox would both be quite good at the weekend and I was impressed with Matt Barbett when he covered a while back, but since he only just left for Five I don't think there's a chance of a return.
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BBC News 8pm 90 seconds slot

itsrobert posted:
That's rather a large assumption. You have no idea of what Jane Hill thinks about this. You don't know what's happened in her private or work lives and thus you are in no position to state whether Jane Hill has been 'overlooked' or not. The only people who know that are Jane herself and the people working at the BBC.


I admit it is only an assumption. As I also said in reality she could have new commitments that we don't know about and it only seems that she has been overlooked as we don't actually know all the details. It just seems strange that she suddenly no longer does the One much as I thought that the shift is a fairly similar length and time to her News 24 one, though I'm not completely sure. Does anyone know if they are similar?.