Alastair McGowan doing Huw Edwards

Did you see Alastair McGowan doing Huw Edwards tonight ? What do you think Huw really does when the regional news is on before coming back for the closing headlines ?

can someone nab some voice clips of him doing Huw Edwards

That was great - Richard Madely was brill too!

What backdrop were they using?

http://www.tvhome.co.uk/Images/Misc/News%20At%20Six%20Fake.jpg

It looks like the normal one with the camera tilted up to show the 'upstairs' of the news centre. Is that was it is?

Cheers,
Asa

A clip of Alistair McGowan (aka Huw Edwards), doing a news rhyme.

http://www.imedia.btinternet.co.uk/resources/huwedwards-bigimpression.mp3

I thought Alistairs Impression of Huw was great! The past few impressions I felt that he went slightly over the top with the Welsh acent, but this time he has really hit the nail on the head. Although he will never be as cute as the real Huw Edwards

They're supposed to be doing Jennie Bond too - was that on tonight? I only saw the last ten minutes!

SEE! They had a BBC Desk - but did anyone else they used a totally diffrent chair. That desk looked made, if they can do it, so can I? I like the backdrop, and the oh so convincing 6 O'clock News sidebar!
Good programme, and rythme, BUT WHAT DOES HE DO FOR 27mins, I think Alistar was right!

Perhaps he goes and watches the ITV Evening News?

I managed to capture some images from the programe:

Huw finishing headlines:
http://martinpresentation.homestead.com/1.html
Zoomed out shot of newsroom:
http://martinpresentation.homestead.com/2.html
Huw being touched up with make-up:
http://martinpresentation.homestead.com/3.html
Huw reading the RadioTimes:
http://martinpresentation.homestead.com/4.html
Huw clipping his toe-nails:
http://martinpresentation.homestead.com/5.html
Huw painting picture of Isobel Lang:
http://martinpresentation.homestead.com/6.html
Wide shot of Huw with painting materials on news desk:
http://martinpresentation.homestead.com/7.html
Huw dropping papers in the bin when finished:
http://martinpresentation.homestead.com/8.html

(Edited by Martin at 6:34 pm on April 23, 2001)

Oooohhhh, they've made him a mock BBC News desk but its still filmed at Elstree, hence only one window because its the Newsroom South East studio.

how come the bbc news studio used for bbc 1/2 has a different desk than the rest