I don't know if it's a permanent change but, based on the website banner, ITV News appears to have moved from five to four main presenters following Katie's departure.
Did anyone see the ITV News at Ten promo today? I've never seen it before.
I briefly caught it today during daytime schedule and featured the lead story of the 'exclusive' 'Pinned Down by the Taliban' footage but seemed over sensationalised with bed underneath, radio wave graphics with the voiceover talking, the usual black and yellow graphics and a floating Julie Etchingham at the end of the promo over some CGI-ed graphics. Seemed so dramatic it came across as over the top than usual IMO. Anyone else see it?
Did anyone see the ITV News at Ten promo today? I've never seen it before.
I briefly caught it today during daytime schedule and featured the lead story of the 'exclusive' 'Pinned Down by the Taliban' footage but seemed over sensationalised with bed underneath, radio wave graphics with the voiceover talking, the usual black and yellow graphics and a floating Julie Etchingham at the end of the promo over some CGI-ed graphics. Seemed so dramatic it came across as over the top than usual IMO. Anyone else see it?
nope. Anyone else catch it and could upload it? Thanks
Thanks for the link. Having Ms. Turness as the captain of the ship is clearly doing ITV News no favours whatsoever.
The comments are quite interesting, aren't they?
They certainly are!
Also didn't really know what thread to put this in and didn't want to open up another one, But I noticed the man who appears in the background in loads of TV News live's ( his been mention on hear before I'm sure) on London Tonight tonight at the 7/7 memorial - quite sick i think to pretend to bee one of the families putting down a flower etc, just to be on camera.
And just to back it up here's a couple of pics.
Thanks for the link. Having Ms. Turness as the captain of the ship is clearly doing ITV News no favours whatsoever.
The comments are quite interesting, aren't they?
They certainly are!
I never thought watching News at Ten would become as much of a chore as it has been lately - even ignoring things like lazily-designed graphics, odd camera angles etc etc. The scripts are getting decidedly soggier.
Another grumble is their persistence with having one newscaster at a location finish his/her sentence, and then have the presenter in the studio move onto other news without so much as a "Thanks, Alastair" or even "onto other news now". It's choppy and rather cold, and it doesn't flow well at all.
Are they still doing that - surely they're not that pushed for time they have to leave out the pleasantries. It just makes the programme feel very disjointed too - and is actually damaging another of ITV's strengths because I've always felt they have really excelled when anchoring on location and generally do it better than the BBC.
Thanks for the link. Having Ms. Turness as the captain of the ship is clearly doing ITV News no favours whatsoever.
The comments are quite interesting, aren't they?
They certainly are!
I never thought watching News at Ten would become as much of a chore as it has been lately - even ignoring things like lazily-designed graphics, odd camera angles etc etc. The scripts are getting decidedly soggier.
Another grumble is their persistence with having one newscaster at a location finish his/her sentence, and then have the presenter in the studio move onto other news without so much as a "Thanks, Alastair" or even "onto other news now". It's choppy and rather cold, and it doesn't flow well at all.
I agree there used to be something like "Now back to Alastair at Heathrow" or "Now back to Mary in the Studio with the rest of the days news." It takes like 5 seconds max so dont see why they stopped doing it. It's only a small thing but it makes it flow better and is just well more polite - now it cuts away from the location presenter at the "coming up" bit or at the sting and visa versa without mention of each other.
Are they still doing that - surely they're not that pushed for time they have to leave out the pleasantries. It just makes the programme feel very disjointed too - and is actually damaging another of ITV's strengths because I've always felt they have really excelled when anchoring on location and generally do it better than the BBC.
exactly - takes so little time but is needed! And as you say on location is normally one of ITV News's strengths - and used to flow between stories well - Start the bulletin of with the on location story, back to studio and then back to location for "And finally" story.
Just to go back to who's doing which weekday bulletins - Alastair remains the lead presenter with Mary on ITV News at 6.30pm and continues to present the majority of all 6.30pm programmes, while Mark is the lead presenter with Julie for News at Ten. Alastair is also lead presenter on the 1.30pm. I'm from the ITN press office and thought it would be useful to clear this up as there was suggestion we'd put out a press release about it...
Just to go back to who's doing which weekday bulletins - Alastair remains the lead presenter with Mary on ITV News at 6.30pm and continues to present the majority of all 6.30pm programmes, while Mark is the lead presenter with Julie for News at Ten. Alastair is also lead presenter on the 1.30pm. I'm from the ITN press office and thought it would be useful to clear this up as there was suggestion we'd put out a press release about it...
Brace yourself for a series of follow up questions.
