News at Ten - Weeknights on ITV1

I suspect that Sir Trev/ Mark Austin will actually take lead with Julie being deputy, similarly to the evening news.

Out of interest, as this is 'News at Ten' and they seem to have dropped the ITV brand for it, will the reporters and relief presenters be the same for NaT as for the other ITV bullitens?

Actually it does include 90 minutes programmes, particularly 90 minute drama. Within commissioning and drama writing, ITV have apparently struggled to find enough consistent one or two part dramas of 90 minutes per part. Writers generally prefer 60 minute dramas. And in terms of what you call a slot that pulls in 3 million viewers, I would imagine Sky would wet themselves over those sort of figures. I'm not sure that would be a "graveyard" slot...

Thanks Londoner... January is what I said. High, good or whatever you want to call it - I'd hardly post something here without knowing it spot on informtation.

One would assume that when Julie isn't presenting they'll use Nina before Mary or Katie? What does everyone else think?

NAT Historically had one lead presenter and a 2nd who didn't conduct interviews. Though things have changed since then and roles are more than often split equally.

Channel 4 news is a clear example though of how they split the programme between two presenters, and in my mind an example that works very well.

That may be so, but I can hardly see them poaching Etchingham from Sky to simply read the autocue. I am pretty sure roles will be shared equally. IMO Etchingham was one of Sky's high flyers and an excellent anchor of Breaking News and analysis.

She certainly is an equal if not superior to Trevor's skills. IMO he is far too important at ITN...while Mark, John Suchet, Nicholas Owen and Alistair Stewart seem to be classed as second rate to him, I would argue they are all better than Trevor.

Good luck to Julie though - she has more than proved her worth throughout the last few years!

I think one thing they should do is make a more powerful orchestral theme like they had in the last 'News at Ten' era. It gives the programme more gravitas and authority as far as i'm concerned.

I mean just look at Sir Trevs final broadcast not so long ago with the 2004 graphics and the NaT theme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcFLFpmc4Pg&feature=related

That music just fits in perfectly doesn't it, even now? Especially with the theatre of news.

Hopefully it'll be split on the basis of he does one story, she does the next - not alternate sentences like the earlier editions.

New NAT titles unveiled. Camera flied over London - whizzes past Canary Wharf...past the London Eye etc...ending up at "Big Ben" - good to see they pulled out some old library tapes of previous opening sequences.

Anyone notice that Sir Trevor is very particular about being delighted to be there for the launch of NAT. Confirmation that he'll only stay for the first few months - get the thing going and he's off.

Can we see the titles or was it some private audience, sounds very nice though.
Bit mad about Sir Trev going, they shouldn't have really told us that, seems a bit pointless we know hes going.

It was always rather pointless to bring him back in the first place! He should stick to "Tonight with (90 secs of) Trevor McDonald" and enjoy his retirement.