Pendants' corner: Adrian made an error on the show tonight.... he said that Haltwhistle was the geographical centre of the UK-- AFAIK it's the geographical centre of
Great Britain
. Dunsop Bridge is the village that is the centre of the UK
Tut tut Adrian must be hard being a clever-all
Speaking of geography, there was a report from north of B'ham at long last (Tollerton, Notts).
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I actually watched it tonight.
I found it terribly "twee" and totally insubstantial......................................
which is probably exactly what's required for that time of the evening.
At least they didn't drag on, depressingly and over tea, about how to get cancer, and the like.
I can understand the previous comments about the "financial" reporter being pretty dreadful. Surely he could have done that item about re-selling mobile phones without including the hen party, which just happened to be in Cardiff. It just came over as an item about old mobile phones which was contrived to be "regional", but didn't need to be. He'd have been far better off doing it on Watchdog, or some similar programme.
The interview at the end, to fill up time, with "Old Ginger Wig" and "Potential Death Trap" was simply a plug for yet another BBC programme and had nothing whatsoever to do with regionality.
And why, oh why, did practically everything have to be pre-recorded? Has the art of live television been lost for ever?
Overall it simply wasn't the "bounce around the regions" the pre-publicity, likening it to Nationwide, had lead me to expect.
I've only managed to catch a glimpse of one editon of The ONE Show.
Are the reports/features in the programme produced by the various Nations and Regions, with a team in BBC Birminham in editorial control...
or is it just a case of using Nations and Regions crews to go out and shoot footage for reports which are being edited/produced by BBC Birmingham?
Has there been any contribution from Northern Ireland?
Has there been any contribution from Northern Ireland?
Well there was a man standing near Cornmarket in Belfast giving the nation a slice of his Bull-fast accent. I've no idea if there's been anything else from this outpost!
I assume that means that the 19:25 bit of the East of Goole Only edition has weather out of the can, or is Levy so bloomin' self-important that he does it himself now?
Why has no-one at BBC Leeds noticed that the studio is a hideous mess? It looks like some kind of children's soft play area after the children have left and nobody's tidied up.
And is Paul Hudson no longer wearing his 'Early 90s Daytime TV presenter' bright jackets anymore?
