The NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread

well heres something i haven't seen before - kay is doing the lunchtime midlands today al fresco. its not unusual for the evening prog to come from the mailbox terrace, but i've never seen kay off set before.

I have! I saw her in M&S once, and at the NEC too hahaha .

Is it me or is midlands today lacking flow when SV isnt about.

Central News is being renamed Central Tonight at 6 from monday.

Surely "Central Tonight" on it's own would sound better? "Central Tonight at Six" just sounds clumsy - if they still want to push home the fact it's on at six o'clock bit then they should be leaving it as Central News at Six.

Anyway, tonight I loved Nick and Sarah on the gondola at the end of Midlands Today... with a radio mic that kept cutting out so you couldn't hear a word either of them were saying, the fact they were travelling with their back to the camera and Nick not having a clue when the programme was ending.

The Pebble Mill spirit lives on

oh yes it was a great end to the programme... lets take a look

kay on her sun terrace

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-lunch-hot01.rm

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot01.jpg

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot02.jpg

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot03.jpg

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot04.jpg

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot05.jpg

closing

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-lunch-hot02.rm

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot06.jpg

evening show titles and opening

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot01.rm

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot07.jpg

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot08.jpg

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot12.jpg

nick and sarah float off into the sunset along the canal at the mailbox

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot02.rm

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot09.jpg

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot10.jpg

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot11.jpg

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/mt-outside-eve-hot13.jpg

I still think Kay Alexander is someone's mum who was just passing and got asked to "have a go" at presenting a regional news programme. But I love it.

she was spotted at Asda once, I believe there was an important report about it

It is being advertised as ITV Central Tonight. Wonder if we will see any other improvements? They have seem to have gone back to the old backdrop aswell, with the wider view of Brum, albeit with the same old bad picture quality.

For those of us who grew up in the Midlands, Kay is *everyone's* mum.

CNE hasn't changed its title for 6pm show-- has CNS? Or is it just CNW?

Speechless...

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/med-today.jpg

Anybody know what happened at Central Birmingham this morning?

There was no GMTV bulletins this morning. (I checked at 635 & 705!)