BBC News 24

He will be promoting his own weblog next!

Got it, blonde moment!

It's been nothing like Live at 5! No gimmicks, just news.

New trailer + "This is what we do" + Countdown.

Quite possible 1'30" of the best branding I've seen in ages from the BBC.

Then we get the Six.

Sian was back!

Help - Tonight is so so Wooden - Brown and Maitlis are a bore.

I agree bring back the fantastic Jane and Chris

Now that's what I thought. It doesn't really look like they would grow on me, for the time being.

I think the new presenter schedule is dreadful. Although its great to have Jane and Matthew back (even though they didn't present together tonight!), Jane and Chris were so much better in the evenings and gave it a certain feel. Ben and Emily are just so boring and dull, Joanna Gosling would look better! Nothing spectacular happened at all today. O'kay Huws now on N24 but he did not get any 'distinction' on the show (i.e. seperate titles, individual branding - "At 5 with Huw Edwards" or something like that). Having said that the new trailers with 'headlines every 15 mins' is good. I think the new national set should adopt more white colouring like that in the advertising, would the clock work on the set floor or would that look too much?

Umm, I'm not so sure.

Aspects, which I think are working well, are the earilier start time of 8.30, although I can't see why this can't go back a further 30 minutes! Huw on News 24 is a very good thing and the in-studio weather forecasts are a very nice feature, particually with Mr Deakin.

However, Ben and Emily, Umm... They don't really seem to working all that well, from the extract I've seen Ben seems to be making all the "interaction" stuff with Emily seemingly a bit nervous. Like all things I think I'll change my opinion of the pair given time.

Slightly disappointed that they can't even manage the full schedule on the launch date, hopefully not an oman of things to come! Jane and Matthew back together again promises to be a great spectacle, but like others have said I sincerly hope she's not over looked.

I'm slightly more miffed about the pres, I was expecting some changes abeit the promos are very nice but simply using the generic titles all day has been a bit of a let down and I hope that the 1/6/10 are not simply exceptions in terms of pres and that when they do get there changes its brought more into line with News 24's and simuarlly News 24's titles are changed every hour, like the 1/6/10's with the number of the hour so as not to make the 1/6/10 titles exemptions.

But hey, maybe time will tell and they'll change, in terms of pres, a bit more, especially the title sequence.

As an aside note, and I'd love to know this, but what is so special about Ben Brown?

I think they'll gel together given time- they both have some presenting background and just have to get comfortable with their new surroundings, team and equipment (unlike Rubin on Sky, who's still clueless about broadcasting).

Tonight, it does seem like Brown is bit too nervous (blinking an awful lot) and Maitlis is slouching- she seems far too short compared to her partner!

I don't quite get the argument about Ben Brown on this forum.

It's just so blinkered, with the basic assumption that the BBC called him out of active duty as a foreign correspondent to come and present on News 24.

Nobody seems to have considered the possibility that Brown wanted a change of lifestyle and a return to living in the UK full time, for family or other reasons.

Now Ben Brown is a very good, experienced and senior journalist- would people rather the BBC lost him because they couldn't accomodate such a request?

He's following the route of numerous other presenters on the channel, making the move from correspondent to presenter...given time I'm certain he's going to be one of News 24's best assets.

Nothing Really.

According to the BBC however, he is one of there most experienced war correspondents and has also covered major 'domestic events'.