I expect Peter might do a probing indepth interview with Sweety the Chick at some point. The star guest tonight was some bloke out of Hi-De-Hi, it really is becoming the end of the pier show.
Next week, Basil Brush, Gordon the Gopher and Sponge Bob Square Pants.
One of these days he'll be doing an interview with himself, direct from Skegness. And it'll be the top headline!
I expect Peter might do a probing indepth interview with Sweety the Chick at some point. The star guest tonight was some bloke out of Hi-De-Hi, it really is becoming the end of the pier show.
Oh my god - this show is like some obscene parody of local television --I find it hard to believe the BBC are spending our money on such unmitigated drivel - actually no sorry I can....please let the BBC not go ahead with even more highly localised TV, as they are talking about with OFCOM.
In the headline sequence tonight (direct quote) 'And I'll be talking to actor Geoffrey Holland about life during and after Hi-de-Hi'....sounds like something from Alan Partridge on acid...
I'm sorry but Geoffrey Holland (he played Spike trivia fans) has no links with the region whatsoever as I understand it (well they certainly didn't mention any - though they did fill airtime with a long and spectacularly unfunny clip of Hidehi)..... nor is he a big enough star to warrant an extended feature just because he HAPPENS to be in Lincoln.
This is like local radio on TV and boy it's lame as hell, particularly Holland's embarassing impersonation of Prince Charles and Peter's fake laugh afterwards (if you don't believe me, click on bbc.co.uk/looknorth, watch and weep).....quite apart from the fact Spike wasnt even IN the studio, he was in the cupboard in Lincoln and being done down the line
..and (sorry if I am repeating points made on here before but it's the first time I've watched a full edition of the show) it's like an admission of its direness that it has to have the weather forecast in the middle in a risible attempt to stop people turning off......Peter also looks exposed doing serious interviews and can't really carry half an hour alone
coming soon on Look North Hull............
'I'll be talking to Lennie Bennett about life during and after Lucky Ladders'
'And join me as I ask Patti Coldwell what it was like to sit next to Willie Rushton on 'Through the Keyhole''.
A bit belated, but when watching price-drop.tv on Tuesday night, top bloke Greg Scott was selling curtains when the name "
CHRISTA
leeds
" appeared on the purple ticker - spotting this, he started talking about Christa Ackroyd, how he hoped it was her, told her she was getting a great deal on Jacquard curtains, and how much he liked her, even giving Look North a plug.
Not sure if any comments were passed on Wednesday's LNL though.
Alf, you're going to find this hard to believe but Look North Hull is actually one of the most-watched BBC regional shows; only Spotlight beats it on audience share........
Paul O'Grady hasn't this time had any impact on viewing figures for Look North.....
Hard to believe, jesus, I nearly choked on my jammy dodger! Evidence dear girl (and not from your BBC buddies) and compare to per head of population with regard to locality (basically you have picked on two areas where the population density is low and largely rural).
Why would Paul O'Grady have any impact? He's on a full half hour before pipe and slippers pete pops up for more reading of the papers. I think the management issues are largely to do with the forthcoming redundancies and the work-to-rule announced by the NUJ.
A bit belated, but when watching price-drop.tv on Tuesday night, top bloke Greg Scott was selling curtains when the name "
CHRISTA
leeds
" appeared on the purple ticker - spotting this, he started talking about Christa Ackroyd, how he hoped it was her, told her she was getting a great deal on Jacquard curtains, and how much he liked her, even giving Look North a plug.
Not sure if any comments were passed on Wednesday's LNL though.
I had her down as a Laura Ashley, horsey type myself. Can't imagine her buying Walmsley's cast off's from the TV - mind you her face is like a sucked lemon so she might be that tight.
...I think the management issues are largely to do with the forthcoming redundancies and the work-to-rule announced by the NUJ.
That is what I assumed. I just wonder if we can read anything into the fact that some people in the BBC look happy as Larry and others... well, dont?
To pick up on a couple of points from earlier:
The 'previous post holder' was not made redundant, but the BBC do however currently have a policy to not replace any non-essential staff. Seems fair when they have to make so many cut backs.
The Jacquelene Wilson coup has to be credited to Waterstones who arranged for her to come to Hull, then called the BBC and suggested they interview her, having already secured permission for the interview... By my reconing all BBC had to do was agree to Waterstones self promotion scheme. And The Peter Levy Show isn't going to miss a chance to fill 10 minutes with one of the biggest names in childrens literature, surely?
Some of the audience for that feeds through or 'hangs on' for Calendar at 18:00 (that show that's on after O'Grady if you've not twigged) meaning that fewer would see Look North.
Hasn't happened during this new series.... Look North still getting more viewers...
I had her down as a Laura Ashley, horsey type myself. Can't imagine her buying Walmsley's cast off's from the TV - mind you her face is like a sucked lemon so she might be that tight.
Might be a crumb of truth in that.... from an interview she did with 'This is York' journalist Maxine Gordon...
Quote:
TRAFFIC jams on the A64 were keeping Christa Ackroyd from our lunchtime appointment in the heart of York. Christa was bound for the City Screen café in Coney Street to talk about her move from Yorkshire TV's Calendar programme to her debut this week on the BBC's flagship regional news show, Look North.
After breaking free from the gridlock, she rang on her mobile to apologise for the delay and ask for directions to our meeting spot.
Two caffe lattes later, she arrives, with not a hair out of place, totally unflustered and with a welcoming smile. It's a display of the professional polish she's no doubt perfected over her 26 years in the business.
She takes a moment to reapply her lipstick, run a comb through her hair and have her picture taken, before nestling into one of the café's comfy leather sofas for a chat about her new job.
Dressed more for a day out shopping than a shift in the TV studio, she's wearing brown trousers, a loose-fitting brown jacket with the print of a zebra on the back and cream high heels that she kicks off during the interview. She's clutching a giant Burberry check bag and matching personal organiser and has a dinky, chrome-coloured mobile phone that she answers every so often throughout the interview.
She reveals she buys all her own clothes for work, "although I never pay full price," she adds, quick as a flash. The unusual jacket proved a particularly astute buy. "I bought it ten years ago and I paid a lot for it - about £100 - but I've worn it so much and get it cleaned about 20 times a year, so it was worth it."
Her bargain hunting brings her to the McArthurGlen designer outlet at York. Is that where she got her Burberry gear? "Oh no, I go to Castleford, it's much cheaper," she reveals in a tone of conspiratorial glee.
Again it's a no-win situation; if she spends lavishly, she'll be accused of being a spendaholic. If she's frigal, she's accused of being a tight-wad. As nobody's clarified this 'golden sum of money' that's acceptable, and until they do so, she can spend whatever amount she likes in my opinion!
Again it's a no-win situation; if she spends lavishly, she'll be accused of being a spendaholic. If she's frigal, she's accused of being a tight-wad. As nobody's clarified this 'golden sum of money' that's acceptable, and until they do so, she can spend whatever amount she likes in my opinion!
I don't really care what she spends on her clothes - she could just do with a bit of help choosing them as she really has some shocking outfits.
Yes - its wierd how in BBC terms "our region" is always in Leeds, or Norwich, or somewhere equally convinient. A wide ranging public opinion survey (ie a vox pop of a couple of old dears at Costas Coffee in the Forum) would no doubt not reveal this abstract deviation of regional wholism.
Ah well, now the BBC have aproper region in Hull all is not lost - on can ask the voters in Hull East.....
Years and years ago MrStrawsonsSheep was a passanger on the last ever criossing of the venerable Humber Ferry (in those last days the DEPV Farringford). It would be nice to say that I have a definitive answer to any of the question of why regions are always centric around a particular city, but both myself and the Sage of Hull East were just far to drunk to venture any sort of opinion. Whenever I've met the Deputy Prime Minister subsequently, he usually slags me off for being a supporter of a particularly commendable Labour MP, whom the Whips describe as "that bast.... Austin".
This poor old flock of sheep wanders the Wolds, looking down on all of the constituencies in Lincilnshire, and make this prediction - well 3 actually.
(1) The only Labour condstituency in Lincolnshire that will hold its current margin is Great Grimsby.
(2) Not strictly Lincolnshire, not at all in fact, but Helen Brinton (sorry Clarke) will hold Peterborough - good luck to her!
(3) Shona is stuffed - and a god thing too. But Martin Vickers needs to recover the sort of radicalism he had in the 1970's when he anmd the Sheep were opposing the tyrany of Humberside.