I really enjoyed Darshini presenting Jeff Randall Live, she made the program and the whole subject area a lot more accessible IMO. Also, like others have said, glad to see Lukwesa getting more airtime as she is definitely under-utilitsed.
Doesn't she currently present the 3am hour as a standard 'News on the Hour'?
She does indeed.
Interesting that Joel Hills has been reporting on the Lib Dem conference this weekend. Perhaps he will be one of the specialist reporters covering them for the election campaign.
I heard someone speculating today that during the campaign, the Boulton Factor and Jeff Randall Live will be combining forces for a daily round-up. Does anyone know if there's any truth in that?
99% sure that the Boulton Factor will be back. One of the Sky panel for the Leadership debates was titled as "Executive Producer of The Boulton Factor", which wouldn't be the case if it wasn't coming back.
I don't think I ever saw The Bolton Factor, can somebody explain the format?
For the 2005 General Election campaign, it was an hour long politics discussion/interview/round-up show twice every evening of the campaign with Adam Boulton at 7pm and 11pm. I think in 2005, he interviewed Blair, Howard and Kennedy on it. I’m not sure what the format would be this time but if there was a Boulton/Randall show, I imagine that would be 7pm each evening, and SkyNews.com might be moved or temporarily dropped.
I don't think I ever saw The Bolton Factor, can somebody explain the format?
For the 2005 General Election campaign, it was an hour long politics discussion/interview/round-up show twice every evening of the campaign with Adam Boulton at 7pm and 11pm. I think in 2005, he interviewed Blair, Howard and Kennedy on it. I’m not sure what the format would be this time but if there was a Boulton/Randall show, I imagine that would be 7pm each evening, and SkyNews.com might be moved or temporarily dropped.
I don't see SkyNews.com being dropped for the campaign, especially as it will no doubt be touted as an election that the internet would play a big part in. It would be quite a snub to what has developed into a quality show in my opinion,lots of guests,discussions,debates etc.
I'd rather they left the 7pm hour with Martin and Jeff as it is and maybe just do one 'Boulton Factor' at 9 or something, anyways time will tell. They are so fond of the NWS 15 minute slots that they may not want to touch the 8-10pm time period!