BBC North West Tonight

TBH I have to agree. By in large NWT is good. I think without Gordon it would lose its familarity with viewers and some of its 'feel'.

Some of the technical problems do it make it poor though. And my pet hate - the bench/sofa/monstrosity - which when people sit on it they look like there sat on broken glass.

Yeah, that part of the studio looks uncomfortable doesn't it? I think it's because the seat back padding is horizontal. It'll do nothing for your back, but your elbow's will be very happy.

Has anyone noticed the carpet round the sofa, its all crumpled and also were has the glass table gone.

The carpet around the (hideous) sofa has always been a mess, with many 'scrap' pieces covering wires etc.

The glass table has only ever made random appearances. Noteably for the Blair/Howard/Kennedy election interviews and also on the Politics Show.

I wish they would rob Breakfast's old sofa and replace that bench.

Anyone catch the luncthime programme yesterday? A report failed, we then saw Dianne walk onto the set for the weather, then after a long and uncomfortable handover to Dianne we could then see Gordon, persumably thinking he was off camera, seaching around under the desk.

This is what I hate about North West Tonight/Today. They have way too many technical problems, making the programme look poor.

And another error involving Diane on Friday's NWT.
Stuart was due to go live to her in a garden and instead of being there there was a very bored looking helper!!
Poor Stuart then spluttered and stuttered through the next minute before they decided what to do next.

what happened with the ident before the news at 6. It had north west in the box but it was the main bbc one anouncer and the wrong music.

They must've used a symbol played locally, and mixed this with Network audio.

The Network Ident was Skateboarders, with no regional references.

Anyone catch NWT tonight? A techinical disaster as usual, as soon as it came on and the first story being read out Gordon stopped halfway through the sentence as what I guess was he was being told via his earpiece that the Satellite link up to Liverpool had failed, which he then told the viewers and then went back to the story with it's VT.

There were also a couple of other occassions where he looked puzzled. And the the titles music kept playing during the Headlines, though oddly it didn't sound bad.

I feel sorry for Gordon really, I've never known such a show to have as many Technical problems as this (even before they installed the 16:9 equipment), even Channel M at the best of times isn't this prone to disaster.

Gordon did handle the initial breakdown really well though. He stopped, said we can't go live to Liverpool but I can give you some information. Read out a basic introduction using his notes and then introduced the VT. Very well rescued in my opinion.

Gareth

Also during the show tonight during the second last story you could hear what appeared to be a conversation between Gordon and the crew - "What's after the weather?"

I disagree totally. My partner, who knows nothing about telly at all, sat watching it through his fingers because it was so cringeworthy. That usual frightened rabbit in the headlights look, followed by an embarrassed shuffling of paper and umming and ahhing while the gallery screamed down his earpiece what he had to do next. He then muttered something like "so I will read what Andy was going to tell you" and stumbled his way through the script Andy Gill was meant to read before going into the package. Truly dreadful and completely amateur. It's time to pension him off once and for all.