Sky News

Surely you could say Martin Stanford is being wasted on a daily half hour interactive show.

Absolutely he is but at least he has a regular slot that doesn't repeat itself every 15 minutes.

I think the Live Desk would be perfect for Martin but having said that the Dot Com show is a heck of a lot better now than it was when it first started.

I don't understand why they treat paula so badly. Looking on the sky news website she doesn't even her own biography like the majority of the other presenters, yet she's been there far longer than some of the ones that do.

Standford pretty much suggests every technical gadgetry sky news should impliment, so him running the technology show is well suited.

06.00 Sunrise With Eamonn Holmes
09.00 Sky News Now With Dermot Murnaghan And Anna Jones
12.00 Lunchtime Live With Kay Burley
14.00 Sky News Now With Colin Brazier And Lukwesa Burak
17.00 Live At Five With Jeremy Thompson
19.00 Business World With Jeff Randall
20.00 Martin Stanford's World
21.00 Boulton & Co
22.00 Sky News At Ten With Anna Botting
23.00 Sky News Now With Anna Botting

Give News At Ten To Gillian Joseph & Steve Dixon (double headed) and make Charlotte Hawkins a presenter on Sunrise, instead of her giving news update.

Back at school on Monday?

And what sort of a name is "Sky News Now"?

I wouldn't like to see 'Lunchtime Live' again, much prefer Afternoon Live and I think we can safely say that double headed won't be regular any more. And also, the program name's you have aren't the best.

However, what would Boulton and Co Depict?

EDIT: News Now is a Sky News Show in Australia/NZ? I think...

That's awful.

I was right, it's Australia, here's a look at it from YT,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYELK4c2oY0

My schedule idea for Sky News would involve a lot of changes. Firstly, Charlotte Hawkins would take over The Live Desk. Lukwesa Burak would take her place on Sunrise permanently but maintain a solo presence by continuing to present Sky World News at 5am. Philippa Hall would replace her from midnight to 5am.

Double-headed programmes would return at key points in the day. For instance, Anna Botting would join Dermot on Sky News Today. As such, Steve Dixon and Lorna Dunkley would move to weekdays to present a newly extended Sky News Tonight from 9pm to 12am. At the weekend, Chris Roberts and Samantha Simmonds would be paired for Sky News Today, with Colin Brazier and Paula Middlehurst co-anchoring Sky News Tonight.

Martin Stanford's input would be greatly increased with him providing both news summaries and dot com previews during Afternoon Live, before going onto present the main programme at 7pm and returning at 8pm for an hour of NSW. On Fridays each of these roles would be filled by Matt Smith. The 9pm hour of NSW would be scrapped to make way for an extended Sky News Tonight, as would the weekend afternoon NSW to accommodate a weekend edition of Sky News Today.

Helen Fospero would become one of the main anchors over the weekend, presenting both editions of The Live Desk on Friday, the weekend lunchtime bulletins on Sat and Sun and also Afternoon Live on Monday.

Live at Five, Saturday/Sunday Live and Weekend Sunrise would remain unchanged, as would Jeff Randall Live. On Fridays, a new political programme hosted by Jon Craig focussing on the week's events in Westminster would occupy the 7:30pm timeslot.

This presenter format is similar to what you propose using the double headed format at peak times.


6am-9am Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes and Charollete Hawkins(headlines)

10am-1pm Sky News today with Dermot Murnaghan and Anna Jones

9am-10am 1pm-2pm Live desk with Colin Brazier, Charollete Hawkins(Friday)

2pm-5pm Afternoon Live with Kay Burley and Steve Dixon (headlines), Andrew Wilson(Friday)

5pm-6pm Live at five with Jeremy Thompson

6pm-8pm Jeremy Thompson and Anna Botting

8pm-8:30pm Jeff Randall Live

8:30pm-10pm Martin Stanford mix of .com and NSW like he presented before .com

10pm-11pm News at Ten with Chris Roberts and Anna Botting

11pm-1am Chris Roberts

2am-6am Luquesa Borak