I like the way they are introducing light hearted comments at the end, last night with 'Huarracane Mary' and tonight with the BTTF day photos. It works on the regionals so I can't see why it can't work on the national, and is a bonus of double headed bulletins.
As long as it remains secondary it's fine. Mark and Mary were always a fine partnership and unlike many of the regions any banter comes across as completely natural, unlike some of the regions. I did like the Hurricane Mary stuff too - suspect Mark was just jealous they didn't name that one after him!
One criticism of tonights bulletin though - thought it was in bad taste tonight in the Coming Up sequence to switch from a story about ex-servicemen who had lost limbs trying to defuse bombs to an explosion filled scene from Spectre.
P.S. Talking of Mary she must be one of the longest serving main presenters of the same flagship news programme in ITV history, having been the main co-host of the Evening News certainly since 2004, and before that job-sharing with Katie Derham from 2002. Other presenters have been part of a programme team which rotated presenters for around the same time or longer, but from what I can see only Alastair Burnet and Sandy Gall rival her in terms of longevity as the main host of a programme.
Last edited by Brekkie on 22 October 2015 11:00pm - 3 times in total
ITV Hub is about a brand identity. Let's leave it there.