Tanya = Miss Mischief on set. Legendary.
The World Today: I, as you all know, am a great fan of this particular hour on BBC World News, but it very much depends on who's in the lead presenter chair. It swings from being an informative, interesting, fast paced newscast, to occasionally being a clunky mess of bad timing, boredom and car crash telly. Which is sad.
The newspaper review, whilst one of my favourite segments, can often feel contrived and shoehorned into a very short slot. I would like that segment to be extended slightly and in slightly greater depth, similar to the NC equivalent.
I agree with most of your points. There had been times when someone less experienced, like Daniela on the chair, from my observation she was just mostly quiet while Sally or Alice was doing more of the questioning to the guest, it seems odd the lead anchor is just taking a backseat, but we can't blame her either as it may be safer instead of saying all the wrong things. Also the lead anchor creates the atmosphere, sometimes its just sprinkled with awkward moments of silences, while he/she is thinking what to say, exchanging glances with the biz presenter. I'll have to say Naga does bring out that area great, Martine Dennis was good as well. I hope more of these similar league of presenters get to anchor that in future.
Also while on this, it seems to me the guests on TWT are mostly the same group of people. If we've watched TWT long enough, most of the guests who appear have appeared before and will probably again after some weeks. Are these guests paid to come and put on some sort of a rota?
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