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Critique
Fairly sure this video from Greg James on Twitter which includes a Huw Edwards pose features a recreation of the BBC News theme from the Gallery!

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Andrew Founding member
Greg is a proper TV and radio geek, you can’t imagine Nick Grimshaw having made that observation.
Last edited by Andrew on 11 August 2018 9:56am
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all new Phil
Yep, because if there’s one thing the Radio 1 target audience love, it’s a spoof of a news programme that’s on at the same time as Love Island and attracts an average age of over 60.
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chris
Yep, because if there’s one thing the Radio 1 target audience love, it’s a spoof of a news programme that’s on at the same time as Love Island and attracts an average age of over 60.


That Greg James video was very embarrassing.
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SuperSajuuk
The ticker broke once again. It broke half way during the 1.30am Travel Show broadcast by being completely missing, then returned after the TOTH but it’s only showing the plane thief story over and over.

Whoever manages the ticker overnight seems to successfully screw it up every time. Rolling Eyes
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A former member
Can't you be a TV geek and still love "Love island"?
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VMPhil
Momentarily confused then as I turned on the TV to find BBC Four using their old 4:3 DOG again… it was BBC News extensively using clips from an old programme about VS Naipaul for his obituary.
Rory and London Lite gave kudos
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Markymark
chris posted:
Yep, because if there’s one thing the Radio 1 target audience love, it’s a spoof of a news programme that’s on at the same time as Love Island and attracts an average age of over 60.


That Greg James video was very embarrassing.


There's little else to do in a room at the Holiday Inn at Media City, you can't even get pornography sent to the telly in there (I'm told)
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Hatton Cross
So the Linton Travel Tavern is better than the Holiday Inn Media City in that regard?
Very Happy
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BBI45
It appears that they have taken the World News ticker early. I swear this isn't the first time either.

8 days later

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SuperSajuuk
It's good to see the BBC are giving other presenters a chance in their various key slots (such as Rachel Schofield presenting Afternoon Live, and Mel Coles covering some afternoon weather shifts). I would like to see more unusual presenting shifts so it's not just the same people every single day, which gets incredibly boring after a while.

Looking at Mel Coles' twitter feed, she is apparently a freelance journalist and not specifically a weather presenter, which means we might see her more in non-weather related presenting on the News Channel.

I know this is mostly because of the summer break, but it's still good to see the BBC not rushing to get their "star presenters" back on screen so quickly.
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London Lite Founding member


Looking at Mel Coles' twitter feed, she is apparently a freelance journalist and not specifically a weather presenter, which means we might see her more in non-weather related presenting on the News Channel.


Mel Coles still on occasion does the occasional bulletin on East Midlands Today, where she was previously employed by the BBC.

Geeta Pendse also recently left EMT to go freelance and has been doing some shifts at BBC London News.

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