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Widescreen - Sat 1st Dec (December 2005)

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LO
Londoner
Funky Guy posted:
Now that The Sunday Edition is finished until the autumn

It may be finished for good...

The Indy on Sunday says that they are considering moving The Moral of the Story with Alastair Stewart to the morning slot.

Ratings for Rawnsley and Catherwood are terrible. They should have left Dimbleby on the show and not buggered around with it.
LU
Luke
Catherwood's always been a mystery to me. Dull and wooden presenter with no charm or charisma.

what happened to the proposed 'Meet the Reporters' format that Dimbleby was supposed to be hosting? was that abandoned in favour of Sunday Edition?
BN
Breakfast News
The Sunday Edition just seemed to me a relic from political programmes of days gone by....Andrew didn't seem to have the charisma, and Andrea wasn't the most inspired of choices either. It lacked pace, and the features were often dull, not taking anything from a new angle.

Actually, IMO the content had nothing new...nothing that couldn't be seen on the Daily Politics/Politics Show/Sunday AM/This Week, or Adam Boulton, even Newsnight and C4 news....it just seems irrelevant now....but I suppose we'd all moan that ITV doesnt have a political show...

The final-era Dimbelby shows, which dropped the audience were much better IMO than The Sunday Edition
AN
Andrew Founding member
Breakfast News posted:

Actually, IMO the content had nothing new...nothing that couldn't be seen on the Daily Politics/Politics Show/Sunday AM/This Week, or Adam Boulton, even Newsnight and C4 news....it just seems irrelevant now....but I suppose we'd all moan that ITV doesnt have a political show...


Isn't that the point that they are all the same, they all get big interviews on rotation, some end up as exclusives, which are then used in the Sunday evening news programmes
GR
gregmc
One thing that p***ed me off about The Sunday Edition was the washed out, blured camera shots. Anyone know what caused this? Compared to The Politics Show, which is crystal clear, it looked so poor, and like it was some cheap production.
PR
Primetime
gregmc posted:
One thing that p***ed me off about The Sunday Edition was the washed out, blured camera shots. Anyone know what caused this? Compared to The Politics Show, which is crystal clear, it looked so poor, and like it was some cheap production.


Tottaly agree, but its probably just ITV running things on the cheap. Poor picture quality, it's not in widescreen etc. The camera shots are awful, they are far to zoomed in on guests/hosts. The presentation is bland and overall the whole show is dull.
NW
nwtv2003
Londoner posted:
Ratings for Rawnsley and Catherwood are terrible. They should have left Dimbleby on the show and not b****red around with it.


I thought it was Dimbleby's choice to quit the show rather than ITV axing it?

They should have given it to Alastair Stewart in the first place anyway, although I cannot see the Moral Of The Story working in the morning, the same format that has been on ITV for the last 35 years has worked fine, ie Weekend World, Walden and Dimbleby..
GM
GMc
I noticed ITV News have started airing coming up promos for their Sunday bulletin at 10pm during Kingdom. This was also done last week.
MC
mccanmat
I noticed that Bill Neely was on the Lunchtime news on Monday... was that his first Lunchtime News?
LO
Londoner
mccanmat posted:
I noticed that Bill Neely was on the Lunchtime news on Monday... was that his first Lunchtime News?

Not by a long way.
NO
Nooze
mccanmat posted:
I noticed that Bill Neely was on the Lunchtime news on Monday... was that his first Lunchtime News?


Here's done them quite a lot, as well as the evening news. I think over Easter he did them both a few times IIRC. I quite like him as a presenter... probably my favourite after Mark and Steve Scott.
NE
Newsroom
Mary now in the Algarve!

Anyone notice the difference in the opening lead reads, obviously LIVE with the fast changing news. Usually they are pre rec.

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