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Brand realignment onwards (October 2009)

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GM
Gary McEwan
Martin Phillp posted:
Clearly ITV News have gone for the name rather than the talent who could easily cover London Tonight. I thought Andrea Benfield might get Nina's national cover after her recent cover on the network, with Ben on LT.


I echo that, Andrea Benfield IMO would be the perfect one for it, seeing as she has done the 6.30 on previous occasions, and even the weekends. Very bad move by ITV to get Kaplinsky

This will hurt the ratings even more, I do hope she is just temporary. I think I would stop watching ITV News if she became permanent.
BA
Badger264
ginnyfan posted:
It's shocking how she ruined her career, she went for the money, left the world news leader BBC for a fluff news show and now she's replacement on a local news show. Shocked


Funny that as she was freelance she didn't actually get paid for her maternity leave, so she just destroyed her career for no real reason.
LE
Lester Founding member
Badger264 posted:
ginnyfan posted:
It's shocking how she ruined her career, she went for the money, left the world news leader BBC for a fluff news show and now she's replacement on a local news show. Shocked


Funny that as she was freelance she didn't actually get paid for her maternity leave, so she just destroyed her career for no real reason.


Maybe her priorities changed after having children? Can't see why everyone is so against her on here. I think she's actually pretty good! Certainly better than the woman on London Tonight that starts every item with 'Ok...' Charlene White.

People are just snobbish that she's a newsreader that has dipped her toe in entertainment.
LL
London Lite Founding member
[quote="Lester" pid="717180"][quote="Badger264" pid="717178"]
ginnyfan posted:


People are just snobbish that she's a newsreader that has dipped her toe in entertainment.


Personally I preferred her on Strictly than her news bulletins since she left London Tonight the first time round.

And I'd rather have Charlene White, a journalist who knows the patch, doesn't patronise the viewer and just gets on with it than a presenter who didn't adapt to Channel 5's format when she was there.
GM
Gary McEwan
I'm guessing Faye Barker got overlooked as well then?
BA
Badger264
Lester posted:
Badger264 posted:
ginnyfan posted:
It's shocking how she ruined her career, she went for the money, left the world news leader BBC for a fluff news show and now she's replacement on a local news show. Shocked


Funny that as she was freelance she didn't actually get paid for her maternity leave, so she just destroyed her career for no real reason.


Maybe her priorities changed after having children? Can't see why everyone is so against her on here. I think she's actually pretty good! Certainly better than the woman on London Tonight that starts every item with 'Ok...' Charlene White.

People are just snobbish that she's a newsreader that has dipped her toe in entertainment.


I'm not at all, if you read my posts on the previous page I'm quite welcoming of her to ITV News because it is in desperate need of a new face. I quite like her, and shes head and shoulders above some of the other ITV presenters. I was just commenting on her taking her career into oblivion. She was one of the leading females at BBC News and would have been given various jobs across the BBC. But for the next few months she'll be maternity cover on London Tonight, one of the shows she first started out on a few years ago. That's quite some come down in the space of 4 years.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Gaz McEwan posted:
I'm guessing Faye Barker got overlooked as well then?


I'd say so, she has also covered LT during the double header era. However the main cover for Nina has been Ben and Charlene since the relaunch.
GM
Gary McEwan
If Rachel Mctavish wasn't freelancing between ITV and STV, I think she could be a good one to take up the role, she seems to have the likeability factor....
BP
Bob Paisley
newsatten posted:
Could go in the London Tonight thread, but fits in here too.

Quote:
Natasha Kaplinsky, the former BBC and Channel 5 newsreader, is to take an interim role at ITV presenting London Tonight and national network news programmes.

Kaplinsky, who became the highest-paid newsreader in Britain when she signed a deal in 2007 to defect from the BBC to Channel 5 on a reported deal of £1m a year, left the Richard Desmond-owned broadcaster at the end of last year.

ITV has hired Kaplinsky to cover the maternity leave of newsreader Nina Hossain and will pick up her pattern of shifts anchoring ITV London Tonight from mid-September.

She will also present some ITV network news programmes on an ad hoc basis through to spring next year when Hossain is expected to return to work.

"I am very much enjoying being part of ITV's lineup, and thrilled to be returning to my first love, news," said Kaplinsky, who presents celebrity talent contest Born To Shine on ITV1. "This is an exciting chance to work with the talented team in the ITV newsroom."

Kaplinsky is arguably best known for presenting BBC programmes including BBC Breakfast and the Six O'Clock News, although she has also previously presented ITV regional news and Sky News.

"Natasha has an impressive background presenting national and regional news programmes – including a short spell on ITV London Tonight," said Faye Nickolds, editor of ITV London Tonight.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/03/natasha-kaplinsky-takes-itv-news-role


Good choice I suppose. I wouldn't be surprised if she ends up staying more permantly. Since Katie Derham left they have had one less "face." I imagine she'll mainly do the Lunchtime news, but will be intresting to see whether she turns up on News at Ten!! Laughing


I vaguely remember that when Mary Nightingale joined ITN she was covering maternity leave (for Kirsty Young I think) and was quickly made permanent. I think Kaplinsky will do like-wise - particularly if she's becoming an ITV face by presenting other shows on the network.
GM
GMc
Lester posted:
Badger264 posted:
ginnyfan posted:
It's shocking how she ruined her career, she went for the money, left the world news leader BBC for a fluff news show and now she's replacement on a local news show. Shocked


Funny that as she was freelance she didn't actually get paid for her maternity leave, so she just destroyed her career for no real reason.


Maybe her priorities changed after having children? Can't see why everyone is so against her on here. I think she's actually pretty good! Certainly better than the woman on London Tonight that starts every item with 'Ok...' Charlene White.

People are just snobbish that she's a newsreader that has dipped her toe in entertainment.


I really like Charlene. She comes across as knowledgeable, bubbly (at appropriate times) and very likeable.
Can't quite believe ITV have gone for Natasha K, though. I don't hate her, but she just seems cold and dull. Ben has been massively overlooked again on LT, unless he was offered and turned it down (which I doubt).
I wonder what the other presenters fell about the appointment...
GM
Gary McEwan
Who is the one that has done the odd LT in the past, and also the odd Weekend Lunchtime? Matt someone? I found him to be quite good, when I saw him a while back.
JO
Joshua
When ITV News rebranded their 'faces' were Alistair, Katie, Mary, Julie and Mark. When Katie left, there was always a face that needed to fill the gap - Alistair took on both the lunchtime and evening bulletins. So it was inevitable that ITV would employ a new face sometime soon. Personally, I'm glad Andrea didn't get the job - she seems very cold and a little too robotic.

I'm pleasantly surprised that they've hired Natasha, I've always thought that she was an 'auto-cutie' however the BBC must've saw something in her to give her the 6 O' Clock News, which she co-presented for a good few years. Her decision to move to Five was always going to be one which would result in the downturn of her popularity, so going to ITV means she'll be back in the forefront. I think its very likely that she'll soon become permanent, presenting not only the lunchtime news but evening and NaT on some occasions.

In all this though, I can't help but feel that Mary has been pushed out. To me, Julie is marketed as the main female anchor. Obviously ratings wise, its Mary's bulletin (Evening News) that has the biggest popularity however it still feels like Julie is marketed at a higher level, maybe this is why Mary got the 'Britain's Best Dish' role?

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