Andrea Catherwood tipped to replace Trevor McDonald

LETS HAVE A LITTLE BET OF WHOS GONNA GET IT
HERE ARE THE ODDS

Mark Austin 7-6
Mary Knightingale 15-1
Katie Derham 5-2
Nicholas Owen 4-1
Alistair Stewart 31-2
Steve Scott 5-1
Andrea Catherwood 4-3
Felicity Barr 11-2
Leyla Daybelge 30-1
James Mates 2-1
Bill Neely 14-1
John Suchet 50-1
John Nicholson 19-1
Angela Rippon 16-1
Shuilie Ghosh 29-1
Joyce Ohajah 35-1
Nina Hossain 40-1

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I think ITV should recruit Kay Burley for the 10.30 pm bulletin. She has a weatlth of experience, is very professional, confident, has bags of personality and would definitely make the bulletin her own - with Leyla Daybelge as her stand-in.

How can John Suchet take over Trevor McDonald?
He's retired, remember!!
But, I think it will be nice to see John Suchet anchoring the 10.30.

This is probably why the odds are 50-1

I think James Mates would also be a good way to go.....

Surprised ITV have not tried to poach a BBC presenter to get their revenge though (apart from DM)

Rumour has it that ITV News are trying to persuade Fiona Bruce to replace Trevor.

Where are these from or have you just made them up - some look a bit suspect to me!

This is how i would arrange it (if they got Dermot murnaghan back)

Lunchtime
Nicholas Owen / Katie Derham (as well as LT)

Evening
Dermot Murnaghan & Mary Nightingale / Nina Hossain

10:30
Mark Austin / Andrea Catherwood fridays

You have to remember that the 10.30 job involves just presenting a bulletin studio-bound. There's no chance of outside broadcasts so that would probably rule out Mark Austin.

James Mates and Bill Neely also would I doubt want to give up reporting all around the world to be studio bound so that rules them out.

Alistair Stewart might be a good bet

I agree, except for Dermot, I wouldnt have him back, I dont think he can fit in with the current presentation style and presenters. I wouldnt have Katie and Nick doing London Tonight, and I doubt that them both would want to do it.

I would have -

Nick Owen and Felicity Barr presenting the new hour - long Lunchtime News.

Bill Neely and Andrea Catherwood on the Evening News.

Mark Austin and Katie Derham co - presenting a slightly longer 10.30 programme.

At weekends I would like to see more of Leyla Daybelge, Joyce Ohajah, Steve Scott and Owen Thomas.

Andrea Catherwood is typical of the modern day style newscasters who likes to sensastionalise news stories.

She proved this in 2001 when she went to Afghanistan and went too far, (Sadly she got hurt, but went too far).

If we are looking for an outsider ( I mean someone who is not normally in the main frame for presenting the main news, Andrea now covers weekends), why not bring back Alistair Stewart.