I absolutely agree. She did it with style. A classy lady and a terrific presenter. Thank God she had the water waiting below. I dread to think of her trying to struggle on whilst sounding as if she was being throttled. Nice to see Alastair Yates in a different style of studio. I like the shoebox effect.
I am in Manila Philippines for the last ten days and have noticed many changes in the breakfiller content compared with the usual Dubai trails. One such example is the perpetual advertisment of "World News Today with George Alagiah", not a video ad but a textual one. I have never seen this on the Middle East breakfill.
Also, the nightly agenda kinda "flips" here in Asia, where the running order is displayed but the time slots for each major city are slid-in as the heading banner. In Dubai, we have the programme name on top, but the city showing times are listed below.
Minor details, but details nonetheless.
Also, today's edition of WNT (with JC, as opposed to George Alagiah) had a freaky ending from the pod. The guest was an artist who could interpret music on canvas. So, he and JC were perched on bar-stools with an easel in front of the artist and the usual plasma in front of JC, with an extra-wide shot of the pod area. The artist was asked to interpret and draw on-air the theme music to "World News Today". The same was played nice and loud in the studio, full length version, including extended bed midpoint, whilst artist scribbled his interpretation of the same on his easel...........................................hmmmmmm. Quite different, I have to say.
But most bizarre was that JC - perched on his barstool - reminded me of the tiny version of Denis Waterman which oft appears on Little Britain. Either JC is very, very small (I have no clue), or the other guest was humungously large!!!!!
But, crikey, Mr. Charles is indeed an incisive interviewer. Didn't he give the Iranian guests a hell of a hard time???????
Also, today's edition of WNT (with JC, as opposed to George Alagiah) had a freaky ending from the pod. The guest was an artist who could interpret music on canvas. So, he and JC were perched on bar-stools with an easel in front of the artist and the usual plasma in front of JC, with an extra-wide shot of the pod area. The artist was asked to interpret and draw on-air the theme music to "World News Today". The same was played nice and loud in the studio, full length version, including extended bed midpoint, whilst artist scribbled his interpretation of the same on his easel...........................................hmmmmmm. Quite different, I have to say.
Sounds interesting. Don't suppose anyone managed to capture any of this?
World is indeed using N9 today. It's back to its usual red and white colour scheme (after the spruce-up it got for the elections), and the newsroom's fairly empty, so it's looking a bit forlorn.
Don't suppose anyone knows what's being done with N8 this weekend?