ITV News

There is an ITV News Special at 1930 on ITV1 for the floods that have happened
Katie Derham is up in an helicopter over Rotherham and Sheffield

**edit note** sorry not seen earlier message posted this afternoon

No prizes for guessing which ITV1 ident isn't being used for a few days!

ITV News went for a BBC News style of things tonight, sitting down for most of the bulletin, just standing up for the main story.

And the story after the break. Wonder why they were sitting down at the end.

Not watched the Evening News much lately, but isn't that the main format anyway - standing for the lead and midpoint story and sitting for the rest?

They usually stand up for the ending, and have the pan across the studio with the presenters walking back to the desk.

Their was now pan accross the studio to the presenters at the start of the Evening News on Friday. It looked much better anyhow.

The Saturday night bulletin was a disgrace. It started nearly 10mins late, and only lasted about 10mins, surely it should have started on time because of the breaking news that night and lasted a bit longer. Stupid timing aswell 11.25pm - surely 10.25pm would have been better before Dame Edna.

Why are ITV News being so aloof about the terror stories? Being the alarmist news provider they are, I would have thought they would have a field day this weekend!

Alastair presented the News Summary at 11:10 and then London Today immediately afterwards, which involved a simple background change.
Katie will be presenting both the Lunchtime News (with Alastair) and the following London Today programme so it will be interesting to see which studio is used for the latter.

Did anybody else hear about ITN being evacuated yesterday following a bomb scare?

It was mentioned at the end of last nights Snowmail from Krishnan:

"Even here at the ITN building in London there was a reminder to us all that vigilance and common sense are a daily essential. A suspect vehicle spotted on a nearby street meant we all had to leave the building while the police inspected. There was, it turned out, a perfectly innocent and rational reason for a gas container to be inside the car.

I am sure similar scenes will be played out across Britain in the coming days."

I suppose thats one advantage of having the ITV national and regional bulletins split at lunchtime. They can use one of the ITV Lunchtime News presenters on London Today!