Sky News Australia, done a first last week... Women/Women presenting together... its on its 6th day of 2 females presenting together. Also the other day, The Sports and Business presenters were females, so there were four women sitting at the desk together and they were all blonde!
In the olden days, television executives didn't mind having boy/boy anchor teams:
Alistair Burnet and Sandy Gall; Nicholas Witchell partnering Andrew Harvey or Philip Hayton on the Six O'Clock News; Frank Bough and Nick Ross when Selina Scott had the day off on Breakfast Time; Stuart Hall and John Mundy on North West Tonight.
Very occasionally, you'd have a girl/girl one. But that was very rare.
Got to admit - I don't think you can beat a bit of girl/girl action
But I cannot remember the last time I saw two people of the same gender anchoring a television programme together.
In Northern Ireland, there have been many times recently when two people have presented the main evening news together.
I think Calendar has also had two female hosts at least once - but not Look North to the best of my knowledge... could you imagine Christa Ackroyd allowing another female host on with her?
I'll never forget the frosty Natasha Kaplinsky / Mishal Hussein double-header on Breakfast a couple of years ago. Their body language didn't exactly give you the impression that they were best friends.
If you want an innuendo, I'll give you one!
