I know I'm about 8 years too late on this but how OTT were the 2001 Central titles?! Just seem them on TV Ark which has recently updated the page. Was an American producing the show what with the presenters cheesily turning around during the titles, thumping beat and wrong sounding announcer doing the "live from Carlton studios" bit. Can't understand how any news could be taken seriously after that!
I know I'm about 8 years too late on this but how OTT were the 2001 Central titles?! Just seem them on TV Ark which has recently updated the page. Was an American producing the show what with the presenters cheesily turning around during the titles, thumping beat and wrong sounding announcer doing the "live from Carlton studios" bit. Can't understand how any news could be taken seriously after that!
I agree and that voice over was over enthusiastic. But my fav were the 1997 ones.
Bizarre 'falling between two stools' of misguided populist folly: on one hand you have the excruciating (whom my old mother would've most certainly described as 'common') Kite + 'foil', and on the other dear old Llew n'Bob, both of whom now (sadly) have the air of the classic, bemused cartoon characters momentarily suspended in mid air (having rushed over the cliff edge) immediately prior to their comedy plummets.
And the future is to be Bob and the implausibly, nigh comically and doggedly inept Sameena, Zombie Autocue Queen non pareil?
Eh?
How does anyone arrive at the conclusion that this is the ratings clawback combination?
Not only that, the one person in possession of a most inexplicably unexploited charm and idiosyncratic charisma, 'bubbly' and elfin Yvonne Gaskill, has been dumped even more unceremoniously than that fellow iconic traveller, the Malin person.
To be replaced by smirking, unprepossessing mediocrities.
Presumably the contemptuously transparent agenda is to so devalue the whole basis of ITV local news that when the inevitable demise occurs everyone will just be relieved to have the thing put out of its misery.
I think we all know ITV is/has been gradually reducing local news to the point where OFCOM will just allow ITV to axe it and for ITV to become just any other channel and get taken over by a media giant.
Bizarre 'falling between two stools' of misguided populist folly: on one hand you have the excruciating (whom my old mother would've most certainly described as 'common') Kite + 'foil', and on the other dear old Llew n'Bob, both of whom now (sadly) have the air of the classic, bemused cartoon characters momentarily suspended in mid air (having rushed over the cliff edge) immediately prior to their comedy plummets.
And the future is to be Bob and the implausibly, nigh comically and doggedly inept Sameena, Zombie Autocue Queen non pareil?
Eh?
How does anyone arrive at the conclusion that this is the ratings clawback combination?
Not only that, the one person in possession of a most inexplicably unexploited charm and idiosyncratic charisma, 'bubbly' and elfin Yvonne Gaskill, has been dumped even more unceremoniously than that fellow iconic traveller, the Malin person.
To be replaced by smirking, unprepossessing mediocrities.
Presumably the contemptuously transparent agenda is to so devalue the whole basis of ITV local news that when the inevitable demise occurs everyone will just be relieved to have the thing put out of its misery.
You would think that all the time and money just to a 30 minute programme a day, they would make more use of their resources and air more local news bulletins like Fox's Local stations. By doing that, and making most of the daytime output regional news and repeating programming, they could leave the network in London to concentrate on a few hours of prime time tv each night.
So hand over control to regions between 9.25 and 6.30pm, then network take control from 6.30 until 10, then local news then network through until 6am then GMTV. Regions could just be controlled from London.
woah! whos that on ITV Central Weather tonight?! Very nice, is Charlie and Emma gone now?
Yup that was Anna Church, the Weather Idol winner from a couple of years ago (think she also works on Ram FM, or did)
Emma will be working freelance for Central in 2009; I hear Charlie will be around for a little longer on Central, as will James Wright (when he's not doing the news at weekends!).