UK General Election

Or Emily is doing those and Mishal is taking her big screen role? Not sure which of them I would class as having the more Paxman-like interview technique - they could both do a good job of the role.

Am I the only that thinks a jointly led election night with Maitlis and Hussain would be a better watch going forward than giving it to Edwards?

Not a bad idea imo.

Maitlis presents Newsnight. Hussain presents Today. They clearly have a lot of experience between them.

Agreed.

Not a lot of love for Huw Edwards here and I don't understand why.

Personally, he has the gavitas and past anchoring experience doing the BBC Wales election night coverage. As much as Emily and Mishal are prominent figures and are more than competent, Huw Edwards is the BBC's most senior news presenter, you'd want him covering one of the biggest events of the year.

You could also add Andrew Neil to the mix, he was excellent covering the US election.

Andrew Neil won't be doing screen stuff and he's listed as taking over from Mishal in the morning so she must be on the interview beat.

I expect ITV will be the same at 2015 and last year's EU Referendum with Tom and Julie overnight. Piers and Susannah with GMB and then Alastair during the day till 4PM. Unless anybody thinks otherwise.

I know it's the Easter school holidays, but ...

Two words - absolute tosh.

Point 1 - The chances of ITV breaking away from Election coverage to show Jeremy Kyle and This Morning, and the BBC to show Homes Under The Hammer are absolute 0.

Point 2 - the reason is by 6am, there will still be around 30-50 returning officers still to ask the crowd in the counting all to be quiet when he announces the result.

Even without the extra ballot boxes to sort with the usual local/general election counts, some constituencies containing remote Scottish Islands won't declare until late morning, and (unless it's changed) the Northern Ireland counts don't start until mid morning on Friday.

Still a lot to get through between 9-4pm on Friday 9th June and none of it will be booted onto the BBC News Channel, or squeezed into a commercial break in Loose Women.

Northern Ireland have been counting overnight in General Elections since 2010.

Cheers Pete for the clarification.

Even so, Northern Ireland counts do tend to going into recounts, so even start counting votes in the small hours, there will be declarations dribbling through into mid Friday morning.

Thankfully the possibility of an Assembly election on the same day has now faded since talks will now run to the end of June. That could have been interesting!

2015 had finished up by 5am, and in 2010 by 6am - that night included a security alert in Foyle and a recount in Fermanagh (where the final result was a difference of four votes)