The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Thats a shame. Surely its hard work for Peter all those bulletins and programmes?

Tony Christie was the guest on Monday's Calendar live in the studio. They did a spoof of the famous Amarillo video featuring kids from his old school, but it also included Duncan, Gaynor and the Peter Kay lookalike in a YTV corridor, Nicola Crompton, Kerrie Gosney and Steve Hadley

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Tense error there, Alf?

Past tense, surely, since it always was.

Mind you, given Mark Thompson's announcement yesterday, they might just be the leaders in the single handed presentation, soon to come to ALL the regions.

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Might I ask what level of service you'd NOT consider cheap and nasty, and where would you draw the line between the top line of adequate investment and sheer exuberance? What makes it cheap and nasty in your books? If they'd pumped loads of money into the project, we'd get reluctant licence fee payers levelling criticism at the BBC for wasting their money on a lavish production that didn't cut the mustard.

Isn't 'cheap and nasty' telly cult these days, like Thunderbirds/early childrens' telly was perceived to be? Flamboyant telly sometimes doesn't necessarily come off anyway... something I learned the hard way with the saga of F1 Digital Plus on Sky..... despite the perceived cheapness of it, it's performing well in the ratings and people ARE watching....

Given today's rules, prior to any Mark Thompson changes, surely a level of service which ISN'T cheap and nasty would be with TWO presenters rather than one; and a local weather forecaster rather than a remote clown sent down the line.

Because of the A63 incident, I watched tonight's Hull Look North, but found it impossible to understand the weather forecast due to the idiot presenter talking about e-mails all over the top of the bloke on the other end of the remote line. All the two of them did was both talk at once and FAIL to provide ANY proper weather information to the viewer. It was an amateur shambles and little else.

He must have been busy on Monday at 6pm, as he appeared on Granada Reports too, but Live from Leeds in a CSO studio though. Though he was in the GR Studio the week before, I think he also appeared on another ITV News programme, as there was a report from a hotel with him, on the "ITV News Network" (ITV NC 9.30pm)

They were the good days where radio plugs were appropriate and at Lunchtimes banter naturally occured at the end rather than being a key part of the running order.

I watched a bit of tonight's Hull Look North and even despite the major news story it still went silly from 6.40pm onwards. Best bit was the papers where Peter read two insignificant stories from the Hull Daily Mail and commented on something in Hull City Centre as being 'by the posh chocolate shop, you know where I mean'. And they say it isn't Hull-centric.

Still Peter thanked us all for being there this evening so it wasn't all bad

I wasn't counting, myself, but at one point 'er indoors commented that he'd done that six or seven times.

He then, almost immediately, did it AGAIN, over the top of the weather bloke, thanking some woman in Bordeaux for watching.

REALLY important stuff, eh?

That was Scotland Today I think

It's a shame that - you would have been better seeing the lunchtime if you could - almost the whole Belmont bulletin was spent covering the incident, and all banter was appropriately cut from the weather....

Incidentally, the problem with the weather did at one point move to the end of the programme with a pre-recorded forecast from Paul and no banter added. There was uproar from the viewers, who in a huge floodtide of phonecalls and e-mails demanded that the Peter/Paul banter and mid-way weather forecast reinstated as it was.

I do agree though that the paper review thing needs to be revised. My main gripe with it is that it favours the Humber corridor (especially the Hull Mail) and alienates a huge swathe of the Look North region from said corridor southwards. I've always favoured an approach where different papers get reviewed on different nights (The Boston Standard for example comes out on Wednesdays so the paper could be mentioned on Wednesday) so it's more representative of the whole region and not just the Humber Corridor. It might be better at the end of the programme before the last item....

There was me thinking the 6.30 bulletin was the flagship.

If that's not hyperbole I can smell then it's something very much like it.