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JW
JamesWorldNews
Laura Tobin: is the duty weather presenter on BBC World the last few days. She reminds me too much of Lacey Turner (Stacy Slater in EastEnders) and even has some similar mannerisms as Lacey, and hangs her head to the side with a faint smile, as Stacy is known to do.

Of course the similarity ends there. Lacey knows nothing about meteorology, as demonstrated by the very short skirts she wears in January.
Last edited by JamesWorldNews on 28 August 2009 9:01am
JT
jolly turnip
BBC WORLD posted:
Laura Tobin: is the duty weather presenter on BBC World the last few days. She reminds me too much of Lacey Turner (Stacy Slater in EastEnders) and even has some similar mannerisms as Lacey, and hangs her head to the side with a faint smile, as Stacy is known to do.

Of course the similarity ends there. Lacey knows nothing about meteorology, as demonstrated by the very short skirts she wears in January.


Laughing Love it
BA
bilky asko
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Gavin Scott posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
I'm sure that Messrs Fish and Kettley will approve - they were quoted in articles a few years ago as being concerned that TV weather presenters were being chosen because they looked good rather than being experienced forecasters.


I reckon that was a pointed swipe at the ITV weather dollies, rather than the Met Office employed Beeb staff.


I'm not so sure - not all of the Beeb's weather presenters are Met Office trained forecasters - the profiles of Carol Kirkwood and possibly Louise Lear on the BBC Weather website seem to gloss over Met Office forecaster training.

In the regions, the likes of Paul Hudson, David Braine, Kaddy Lee-Preston, Derek Brockway, Richard Angwin and Paul Mooney seem to be the exception to the rule.


http://www.carolkirkwood.tv/faqs.php

16 days later

CH
Chie
The BBC weather map software appears to be on the blink. The top of the map has been sort of juddering all week, which makes it look as though it's been recorded on video tape, and on Friday night there were thick black borders visible around the temperature symbols and location names throughout the forecasts on the news channel.
BA
bilky asko
Chie posted:
The BBC weather map software appears to be on the blink. The top of the map has been sort of juddering all week, which makes it look as though it's been recorded on video tape, and on Friday night there were thick black borders visible around the temperature symbols and location names throughout the forecasts on the news channel.


I'd wager that the problem lies within the rendering, rather than the software itself; because, given the right specifications, the software should run like a dream.

22 days later

JE
Jez Founding member
Roger Mellie posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
Glenn posted:
I checked the ITV Regional weather this afternoon, and things were a litle bit topsy turvy. Shocked Martyn Davies did the Meridian Weather, but he did the Anglia Weather too! In addition ITV West & Westcountry's Alex Beresford did the London Weather today. Other regions I noticed were normal or had recognised substitutes (YTV had Alex Watson) but Anglia and London were sights I'd never properly seen before. Surprised


It tends to happen here 'oop North from time to time, Granada's Fred Talbot has been on Central the odd time, Central's Emma Jesson has appeared on Granada several times, it's also normal for some of the Yorkshire team to appear on Granada.

I think it was easier when they had the Granada/Yorkshire/Tyne Tees/Border weather presenters based at Leeds. Rolling Eyes


Emma Jesson works freelance these days, hence her swapping between Granada and Central (and Wales?)-- she also forecasts for C4 racing too!


Sadly it seems Emma Jesson doesn't do the weather anymore on ITV Wales when the main presenters are away. Today the ITV Wales weather was done by ITV West/Westcountry presenter Kate Reeves
RO
rob Founding member
Michael Fish to come out of retirement for the 20th anniversary of The Great Storm. Shame it's for GMTV though...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a180494/weatherman-fish-comes-out-of-retirement.html
DA
David
rob posted:
Michael Fish to come out of retirement for the 20th anniversary of The Great Storm. Shame it's for GMTV though...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a180494/weatherman-fish-comes-out-of-retirement.html


Retirement? He is the stand-in presenter for South East Today and was only on a couple of weeks ago. This is like most of the stuff on the non-forum parts of Digital Spy, just a copied and pasted press release.
PT
Put The Telly On
davidlees posted:
rob posted:
Michael Fish to come out of retirement for the 20th anniversary of The Great Storm. Shame it's for GMTV though...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a180494/weatherman-fish-comes-out-of-retirement.html


Retirement? He is the stand-in presenter for South East Today and was only on a couple of weeks ago. This is like most of the stuff on the non-forum parts of Digital Spy, just a copied and pasted press release.


Indeed, he's on SET quite often. Typical Digital Spew. And it's 22 years since the Great Storm which is all a bit strange.

27 days later

SK
skynewsfreak
Is it me or is the BBC Weather site having a lot of problems.

I keep getting elements that don't load and the '[an error occurred while processing this directive]; error message appears. This has happened for a few days now. Wink
WE
Westy2
jolly turnip posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Laura Tobin: is the duty weather presenter on BBC World the last few days. She reminds me too much of Lacey Turner (Stacy Slater in EastEnders) and even has some similar mannerisms as Lacey, and hangs her head to the side with a faint smile, as Stacy is known to do.

Of course the similarity ends there. Lacey knows nothing about meteorology, as demonstrated by the very short skirts she wears in January.


Laughing Love it


But Laura's cuter than Lacey IMHO.
BC
bcdr
New weather person on GMTV today - who is she?

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