Five News - New Look

Well, back-in-the-day, when I worked at sky, there were many presenters who avoided scripts like the plague - why do you think sky news today was such a success, and why do you think that the tablet pc's were so essential to this success? In recent years however this has probably been stamped out as the nature of the 15 minutes stuff and single headed presentation is that you HAVE to have everything lanned as a) there is little time, b) it's all on your shoulders.

I suspect Kay is a bit different, although you only have to look at how many laptops, and pieces of paper that she has on that elbow to think otherwise.

i'm sure that during the break of the 7pm show there were no adverts just trailers for other c5 shows. I thought it'd be full of adverts - i was just interested to see what brands there would be an was suprised there weren't any.

Does anyone else think that from the way Natasha's been talking in interviews we've seen, she doesn't see Five News as a long term career move (and who can blame her..). It certainly isn't her 'dream job' and she seems to think she'll return to the BBC one day. I wouldn't be surprised if she only stays 2, 3 years max at Five, before looking elsewhere.

That's no surprise - with just 40 minutes of advertising permitted between 6pm and 11pm, at a maximum of 12 mins an hour, there are better places for Five (and indeed C4 and ITV) to put their adverts than in the middle of the news.

I get the impression that she wasn't very sure if her move to Five was really going to work out but I don't see how she'll ever be able to get back to the BBC. Silverton, Minchin and Maitilis have taken her place as the young female faces on BBC One and Five will damage any credibility she has as a serious journalist. She'd never be allowed onto Channel 4 and I can't see her with ITV, a return to Sky News would be the only option available to her I think.

i see her being at 5 as a grand finale to her presenting career. If she's savvy, she'll earn what she can and then retire at 38/39 and if she wants have a family and be a fulltime mother. Apparently tho, being on tv's like a drug so whether she can bring herself to totally leave is another matter. Financially she shouldn't have any reason to work.

I think this new edit is more newsy by showing all the headlines before the main titles and cutting out the wideshot of the ridiculous studio and just cutting straight to natasha.

Click the link to see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09F78AfUZH0

Her husband is an accountant/lawyer (either or) so she doesn't have to work now

Cast your mind back to the thread with all the build up to this relaunch. Who was it that said that the people at Sky News hated her? Or, to be precise, Kay Burley?

Of course is is plausible that Burley has something against Natasha - erm, hardly rocket science. Burley is famed for giving attitude to other attractive, younger female anchors in the Sky Newsroom. She is after all Queen of Sky News and is hardly going to want someone much younger shuffling in. Wiki says Burley is 48 - which is nonsense!

Looks 55 at least

Kay is indeed 48.