Central News East set

In the Central News South thread, there has been some debate over Abingdon's backdrop. Given that it is showing a static and generic image, I'd assumed it was "cardboard" (like Meridian).

But an image illustrating the top story was shown on the "window" briefly, on Monday 16th's CN@6, suggesting it's a projector screen.

But, apparently it's actually neither cardboard nor a projection screen!



Given how tiny CNeast's Brum studio is, I wonder if they've got the same kind of clever backdrop that CNsouth has, rather than a projector screen?

It did seem odd that it took a week in a 'different' studio set before CNeast manged to move back into their normal studio with new set and back projection. Has anyone ever noticed that when they say 'lets go to the news room.....' that this is actually at Terry Lloyd House. They have a small injection area at the end of the newsroom with a manually controlled camera to enable this. Before they re-vamped the set last week, the Small set at Nottingham used part of the backdrop that was salvaged from the old set when it moved out of Studio 9 at Lenton Lane.

I have noticed recently that James Wright (the weatherman who often covers for Emma Jesson/Charlie Neil) has started to present the occasional lunchtime and morning CNE bulletin.

Is this is temporary thing, and has he stopped doing the weather now? Does he ever present news bulletins in the other Jesson/Neil regions (ie Central W, Central S, ITV Wales or ITV West)? Does he still do weather for those regions? : :

As the main evening Central News was traditionally on at 6:25pm, the "...at Six" was probably only added to the name, to help shoehorn viewers into the new, unfamiliar start time (which came when the ITV national evening news moved from 5:40pm to 6:30pm).

I guess that East & South must have felt that after a few months/years - by which time viewers would be used to the 6pm start - the "..at Six" bit was no longer necessary.

But West have NEVER fully dropped the "...at Six". However, the "...at Six" is now ONLY in the opening titles and sting. The side plasmas, DOG, etc all say just "Central News" during the 6pm programme. West adopted this half-hearted use of the "...at Six" quite a long while back.

And since East, and - more recently - South, have re-introduced the "...at Six", it's in the same half-hearted way as West.

never seen James on Central News West. Is he any good at reading news? I remember Emma presenting a few bulletins for CNW, you couldnt take her seriously cos she still got that light hearted manner in her voice!

James Wright is very good.. he has charisma, smiles (when appropriate), has an authoritative voice and he is actually quite witty. Very easy on the eye too. He is my favourite presenter on CNE after the sports presenter David Chisnall.

He has only started to appear on CNE bulletins this month... I wonder if he gets paid more for doing CNE bulletins than he does for doing the weather?

James Wright still presents the weather for ITV Wales. No idea if he does the weather on Central or ITV West anymore.



I think he is easy on the eye, but ever since he started coming into the studio during Wales Tonight ive gone off him, he is so boring. I prefer Charlie Neil and Emma Jesson doing the weather to be honest.

They are funny.

"Well it would be wouldn't it"
"A bit manky"
"Snizzle"

Em and Chaz are certainly a couple of classy birds.

There is something quite endearing about Emma Jesson's "bye-bye". Or maybe not...

Emma makes me laugh on her weather forcasts. We only get to see her and Charlie on the weekend forcasts on ITV Wales though, we get Ruth Wignal or James Wright during the week.

Never seen Ruth Wignal on CNE... is she any good?

She used to read the news on HTV Wales but now she does the weather there instead. I think she occasionally does the weather on Central when Charlie Neil/Emma Jesson/James Wright arent available. She is quite good, I like her more than I used to, but she isnt as good as Charlie and Emma.

Whatever happened to Joanna Rice who occasionally did the weather for Central/HTV? She was good.