Sky News

He always seems to do Bank Holidays,perhaps it is in his contract.

I don't think so. I didn't realise Sky News covered this, I actually caught it on Fox News as I was flicking through. It kept me watching for a few minutes. It's still a novelty in this country to have a live car chase on TV, so as long as there was nothing more pressing for Sky News at the time, I don't think it's such a bad move.

Theres hardly been the schedule to accomdate big name presenters, not unless Dermot did News Sport and Weather again

Also don't forget it's a Friday anyway, so there would have been no Eammon or no Dermot anyway. In terms of what I would call the big name presenters only Kay normally works every Friday, and JT works some

When was the last time anyone saw Andrew Wilson?

its been a while. hopefully sky sent him back to america or somewhere like that. Has Asish Joshi had any reports from the middle east yet?

Yeah with a bit of luck. Seems unfair on Steve is now having to start at 5 to cover, considering he's on air until midnight.

Sarah Hughes also appears to have done a disappearing act.

The only report I've seen from Ashish was about a month ago when the Dubai bureau first opened.

Hardly, we all have done long hours in our jobs.

I mean unfair in terms of most people at Sky do about 3 hours presenting max

Not the first time Sky News has taken coverage of a live car chase from the US.
Car chases are pretty big in the US media, local channels are known to drop entire schedules to carry live footage of some idiot driving ridiculously fast down "the freeway" to cries of "unbelievable!", "he's out!" and "Shots fired!" from overexcited commentators.

We don't see live car chases in this country and hopefully we never will do. American media is obsessed with interviewing the guy who drove at a ludicrous speed down the motorway before he's even been loaded into the back of the police car. Over here it'd be called contempt of court. Even as desperate as ITV is to crank up the viewership, I doubt coverage of somebody tearing up the M1 in some clapped out car running over a spike strip would be as appealing as Corrie.

Half the stuff on Police Camera Action consists of drivers who either give up, run off or some other equally boring resolution. In America fugitives run red lights, cause major pile-ups or drive the vehicles off a bridge or to a point where they catch fire. Either that or they get nudged by squad cars and roll over. We do TPAC, which might be safer for everybody else but it ain't half boring to watch on archive footage.

But anyway, live car chases on Sky: Bring them on. Makes a change to the usual flow of things. Long as they don't drop something more pressing to show Joe The Plumber wrap his car around a lamppost, it's not a bad move indeed.

He's been doing some reports this weekend on the pirates in Somalia. He's been called the Gulf Correspondent, so I guess his patch will include North Africa/Saudi Arabia/Yemen etc, and maybe even Iraq as well

Sarah-Jane on again this morning, her and Jason scarcely not seen over the holidays. There were rumours a while back though that she was leaving for BBC Sport. (?) I take it those rumours were untrue?

If Sky have any sense they'll do all they can to keep hold of her. Apart from being very good - she is probably the most beautiful creature ever to draw breath (I might be exaggerating a tad - but not much).