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(January 2007)

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KI
kitt22
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noggin posted:
itsrobert posted:

She's a BBC News presenter, that should be enough.


So is Gordon Burns. Should he go on the countdown?



He isn't - he is a Nations and Regions presenter NOT a BBC News presenter. N&R and News work together but AIUI they aren't the same department. Gordon works for BBC North West NOT BBC News...

Technically I think you'll find that he ISN'T a BBC News presenter...

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I agree with looknorth on this one - Natasha wasn't a News 24 presenter (and I can't ever remember her even making an appearance on the channel) so should not have been included on the countdown. I think this incident really highlights the problem of the countdowns from 2003 onwards. The current ones with personalities date very quickly if one or more of the people featured leave the BBC. Even the countdowns not featuring personalities dated pretty quickly, hence why they have been replaced every year. I still maintain that the best countdown of all time was the 1999-2003 one which was plain red with numbers. It was still as fresh at the end of its run as it was at the start and didn't need to be faffed about with every 12 months.


Natasha appeared on BBC News 24 most nights presenting the Six O'Clock News which is shown on News 24 most evenings. There is no reason why BBC News presenters who appear that regularly on News 24 shouldn't appear on the countdown, after all a lot of the reporters featured appear far LESS regularly...


Yep News and Nations and Regions are seperate departments and you're right Natasha was on News 24 each night at 6pm.
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EddieT
I've been watching News 24 this weekend and noticed the lack of a countdown, and now realise why.

Ha ha !

Serves them right for putting their "celebrities" rather than ordinary people in it, or the elegant simplicity of how it used to be (just a big number and a menu).

If they were going to put people in it anyway, what about their hardest garfting presenters, the bread and butter of News 24 such as Joanna Gosling?

I won't miss Kaplinsky. Nice enough woman, but coming from Sky I always thought she was more suited to them or some other tabloid commercial channel rather than the authoritative BBC.

Bring back Jeremy and Sophie on Breakfast !
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rts Founding member
Could be completely wrong, but I doubt very much they would stop using a countdown just because NK appears in. If that was the case, she wouldn't still be doing the Six.
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mizzb
rts posted:
Could be completely wrong, but I doubt very much they would stop using a countdown just because NK appears in. If that was the case, she wouldn't still be doing the Six.


It seems too much of a coincidence that it's gone a day after she went. I've never liked the presenter and reporter countdown but it's seems a poor reason to disrupt the News 24 presentation over a silly thing like her.
Can they produce a new non Nat version or slice in another presenter over her ?

I feel certain as well as do a few others here that she won't be back again on the bbc news. At least not for a few years.
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Luke
rts posted:
Could be completely wrong, but I doubt very much they would stop using a countdown just because NK appears in. If that was the case, she wouldn't still be doing the Six.


...she has stopped doing the Six.
RT
rts Founding member
mizzb posted:
It seems too much of a coincidence that it's gone a day after she went. I've never liked the presenter and reporter countdown but it's seems a poor reason to disrupt the News 24 presentation over a silly thing like her.
Can they produce a new non Nat version or slice in another presenter over her ?

I feel certain as well as do a few others here that she won't be back again on the bbc news. At least not for a few years.

You're probably right. The problem with "people" titles/countdowns etc is they age too quickly.

Although I was gobsmacked when nobody at the Beeb appeared to notice that something of an intimate nature on an x-ray was clearly visible in a countdown a few years back... Had a long for a pic but couldn't find it.
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Phen
rts posted:
Although I was gobsmacked when nobody at the Beeb appeared to notice that something of an intimate nature on an x-ray was clearly visible in a countdown a few years back... Had a long for a pic but couldn't find it.


This is what you want - its at 15 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCANOiXlREY
MO
Moz
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noggin Founding member
rts posted:
Could be completely wrong, but I doubt very much they would stop using a countdown just because NK appears in. If that was the case, she wouldn't still be doing the Six.


Err - Natasha said farewell to the Six and the BBC on Friday, the day her move to Five was announced...
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Seb
itsrobert posted:
Jugalug posted:
looknorth posted:
News24 posted:
No countdowns at all today. May well have something to do with a certain presenter who requires removal...


She should have never been on the countdown she has never been seen of N24 apart from the six,she never contributed to N24


She's a BBC News presenter, that should be enough.


So is Gordon Burns. Should he go on the countdown?

I agree with looknorth on this one - Natasha wasn't a News 24 presenter (and I can't ever remember her even making an appearance on the channel) so should not have been included on the countdown.


Natasha presented several times on the 11-2 slot with Matthew Amroliwala, covered news specials for BBC1 and News 24 (such as 7th July memorial) to name just a few outside presenting the six most nights every week Wink
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rts Founding member
Moz posted:

Fantastic! Good find, Moz.

noggin posted:
rts posted:
Could be completely wrong, but I doubt very much they would stop using a countdown just because NK appears in. If that was the case, she wouldn't still be doing the Six.


Err - Natasha said farewell to the Six and the BBC on Friday, the day her move to Five was announced...

Relax, noggin. I didn't know, my bad. No need for the sarcastic American teenage girl noises.
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timmy
The countdown has been shelved because it features Natasha Kaplinsky quite prominently.

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