BBC News 24: 'Day-to-day' Presenter & Rota discussion

the entertainment reporter James(?) is on the overnight.

James Dagwell - he's done a few overnight shifts now.
Not bad by all accounts.

Guess who did a six-hour shift on BBC World this evening?

Yep, you got it.....Tim Willcox! He's gone from doing marathon shifts on News 24 to doing marathon shifts on both News 24 and World on the same day! I'm rapidly getting fed up of him.

I like the woman who is on air right now with Ben Brown. She is unusually relaxed for a BBC presenter.

That would be Emily Maitlis.

I knew her name but I couldn't remember it at the moment. She's good and should have a permanent slot.

She is relief presenter for the Nationals, News 24 and also presents Newsnight - so she has a reasonably high profile role without being attached to any one slot.

She seems to work very well with Jon Sopel - usually a good laugh when those two are on, but when she is with Ben Brown or Tim Workaholicocks she is quite catty with them

But overall she is stronger on her own.

good grief!! i've just seen Joanna Gosling - she's taken an exceptionally short amount of maternity leave.

i can't recall when she actually went but it was only a few weeks ago - maybe 6.

is this a case of freelancing and not getting maternity benefits so having to come back early??

She came back 2 weeks ago tomorrow and IIRC went on maternity leave the last Thursday before Christmas (20th/21st??) so about 3 months she was off. But very short in comparison to Sian's or Rachel Schofield (who I think was off for a year.)

Julian Worricker returning at 7pm with Joanna.

Julian Worricker back a 7pm tonight. Horray.

Let's hope this is not just short term. He would be great every week night with Joanna.