RK
That's an ongoing issue - probably related to a lack of TV presenting experience.
You can look away from your guests on the radio to check your next script line, see what e-mails or tweets have come in etc. without the audience knowing. On TV you have to be able to remember more, or be produced more to avoid that. Looking away at your iPad or cards repeatedly during a chat looks like you have no interest in your interviewee, and comes over as rude, however unintentionally.
She should only check her phone or tablet when off camera. If she must do it in vision while the guest is talking she should leave the tablet on the desk at a distance where you can see it within your peripheral vision with out looking down, press the button to wake it and steal a quick glance. Ideally she should leave ENPS (or her notes in the same spot) so when she wakes the device it's already right there on screen so she does not have to navigate to the app.
Victoria is a good journalist but I think that she is so rude when talking to her interviewees! She just did a talk with 5 people (one on location) about dentists and she sat there on her phone looking down leaving the guests to talk to eachother. She's always there with her phone or iPad on her lap when she does an interview, feeling sorry for the guests.
That's an ongoing issue - probably related to a lack of TV presenting experience.
You can look away from your guests on the radio to check your next script line, see what e-mails or tweets have come in etc. without the audience knowing. On TV you have to be able to remember more, or be produced more to avoid that. Looking away at your iPad or cards repeatedly during a chat looks like you have no interest in your interviewee, and comes over as rude, however unintentionally.
She should only check her phone or tablet when off camera. If she must do it in vision while the guest is talking she should leave the tablet on the desk at a distance where you can see it within your peripheral vision with out looking down, press the button to wake it and steal a quick glance. Ideally she should leave ENPS (or her notes in the same spot) so when she wakes the device it's already right there on screen so she does not have to navigate to the app.
BR
Watched it in full for the first time today. To be fair it isn't a bad show at all and was very watchable today, and as I said when it launched they've made great use of the studio to make it feel different from the rest of BBC News - feels much more modern. Glad the studio audience seems to have gone too.
Scheduling for me is still the main issue - as I've said before if it was on for an hour at lunchtime (perhaps as a revamped One o'clock News) it would fit in quite nicely to the News Channel schedule, breaking up the rolling news of the day with something a bit more analytical. The trouble is it goes to air just as the news stories for the day are beginning to emerge - even if it's timing was tweaked to 10-11.30am, with an hour of rolling news before hand, it wouldn't be so bad. I just feel in terms of the news channel they need the time to set up the stories of the day before they begin to look at them in slightly more depth or move on to their own agendas.
Scheduling for me is still the main issue - as I've said before if it was on for an hour at lunchtime (perhaps as a revamped One o'clock News) it would fit in quite nicely to the News Channel schedule, breaking up the rolling news of the day with something a bit more analytical. The trouble is it goes to air just as the news stories for the day are beginning to emerge - even if it's timing was tweaked to 10-11.30am, with an hour of rolling news before hand, it wouldn't be so bad. I just feel in terms of the news channel they need the time to set up the stories of the day before they begin to look at them in slightly more depth or move on to their own agendas.
WO
Wasn't that pretty much what Sky News did with Afternoon Live?
Watched it in full for the first time today. To be fair it isn't a bad show at all and was very watchable today, and as I said when it launched they've made great use of the studio to make it feel different from the rest of BBC News - feels much more modern. Glad the studio audience seems to have gone too.
Scheduling for me is still the main issue - as I've said before if it was on for an hour at lunchtime (perhaps as a revamped One o'clock News) it would fit in quite nicely to the News Channel schedule, breaking up the rolling news of the day with something a bit more analytical. The trouble is it goes to air just as the news stories for the day are beginning to emerge - even if it's timing was tweaked to 10-11.30am, with an hour of rolling news before hand, it wouldn't be so bad. I just feel in terms of the news channel they need the time to set up the stories of the day before they begin to look at them in slightly more depth or move on to their own agendas.
Scheduling for me is still the main issue - as I've said before if it was on for an hour at lunchtime (perhaps as a revamped One o'clock News) it would fit in quite nicely to the News Channel schedule, breaking up the rolling news of the day with something a bit more analytical. The trouble is it goes to air just as the news stories for the day are beginning to emerge - even if it's timing was tweaked to 10-11.30am, with an hour of rolling news before hand, it wouldn't be so bad. I just feel in terms of the news channel they need the time to set up the stories of the day before they begin to look at them in slightly more depth or move on to their own agendas.
Wasn't that pretty much what Sky News did with Afternoon Live?
LL
London Lite
Founding member
Good to see VD break away from an inane round table convo about a Rihanna pop video to cover a bus crash in Brighton.
TR
I understand that the complaints are mounting up and are becoming a little too uncomfortable and difficult to ignore.
Watched it in full for the first time today. To be fair it isn't a bad show at all and was very watchable today, and as I said when it launched they've made great use of the studio to make it feel different from the rest of BBC News - feels much more modern. Glad the studio audience seems to have gone too.
Scheduling for me is still the main issue - as I've said before if it was on for an hour at lunchtime (perhaps as a revamped One o'clock News) it would fit in quite nicely to the News Channel schedule, breaking up the rolling news of the day with something a bit more analytical. The trouble is it goes to air just as the news stories for the day are beginning to emerge - even if it's timing was tweaked to 10-11.30am, with an hour of rolling news before hand, it wouldn't be so bad. I just feel in terms of the news channel they need the time to set up the stories of the day before they begin to look at them in slightly more depth or move on to their own agendas.
Scheduling for me is still the main issue - as I've said before if it was on for an hour at lunchtime (perhaps as a revamped One o'clock News) it would fit in quite nicely to the News Channel schedule, breaking up the rolling news of the day with something a bit more analytical. The trouble is it goes to air just as the news stories for the day are beginning to emerge - even if it's timing was tweaked to 10-11.30am, with an hour of rolling news before hand, it wouldn't be so bad. I just feel in terms of the news channel they need the time to set up the stories of the day before they begin to look at them in slightly more depth or move on to their own agendas.
I understand that the complaints are mounting up and are becoming a little too uncomfortable and difficult to ignore.
RA
This show isn't improving. It's not 'televisual', it's basically her radio show but with strange camera shots and a woman who to be honest looks like a dour Margo Leadbetter.
Given the financial issues, surely a better way forward for this was move her 5 Live show back to London and do the same thing there - it really doesn't need to be on TV.
Given the financial issues, surely a better way forward for this was move her 5 Live show back to London and do the same thing there - it really doesn't need to be on TV.
LL
London Lite
Founding member
I've never understood the BBC's logic in spending more money to 'save' money on output.