NEWS at TEN - January 2016 Relaunch

He has to take holidays at some time, you know.

It's nothing to do with ITV News falling into third place for television news, which you allege. However, I believe that, over all, ITV News in peak-time still does better than Sky News in terms of ratings.

I think you'd prefer Digital Spy where that sort of thing would be allowed to go unchecked.

Here though it doesn't. A presenter being on holiday wouldn't be the cause for ITV News to "fall into third place" if that was even true.

Sky News's ratings are nowhere near what ITV News gets, assuming that's who you believe are in second place.

Sounds like a new nightly feature.

His holidays...... like what most people do during the summer Its clear there are plenty of people and reporters able to steady the ship.

Employee takes annual leave in summer shocker!

...Would be the correct response at any other time, but just after a shock referendum result and a new Prime Minister, if ITV want a credible lead anchor (someone the nation turns to, a la Trevor McDonald) then news trumps annual leave...

Unless of course he's booked and paid for a nice trip abroad somewhere with his family which would have cost him an arm and a leg to cancel and re-arrange.

Twot.

I would think a lot of news organisations were looking at a busy time in September before Andrea Leadsom dropped out

He could have booked a holiday thinking he'd be busier in semptember then now unfortunately

Ah, what difference does it make?! There's always a likelihood that the leading newscaster will be on holidays when a major event takes place. Julie is the leading deputy present of News at Ten. Will she be presenting it this evening?

To be clear, though, some other broadcasters (especially those in the US) would pay the costs to have their lead anchor returned for an event(s) of this magnitude. The same is true of the printing press, and equivalents can be found in various other businesses too.

I wonder, though, if part of the thinking here is that the rest of the Summer could well prove to be unpredictably eventful too - especially if there's a fast invocation of Article 50, and the Labour Leadership race could now prove much tighter than first thought.

Or a lower budget version of 'Where In The World Is Matt Lauer.