ITV1 Continuity Announcers

I thought he was ok!

Well you see it's just that sort of "Smashie & Nicey" thinking that's got you where you are today!

<cough> I don't know what you mean

Don't know who he is, but there is a pre-recorded announcement in LDN-land done by someone who can't pronounce 'Raworth':

'Emily Maitless, Bill Turnbill and Sophie Waworth'

Yes there's a new announcer with a lisp. It's an equal opportunities thing.

If that is the case there will probably soon be an announcer with a stutter and all symbols increased to 90 seconds

Go on, someone mention Tourette Syndrome

You're watching BBC Fu***** One - now sh** it's Eastenders!

Do I get the job?

Of course!

It wouldn't be the first time something like that had happened..!

I thoroughly approve of the "equal opportunities policy" but it goes too far when in the job advertisement it states "we do not discriminate against individuals who demonstrate an inability to do the job and reserve the right to offer such applicants a middle management position"

The best continuity announcer EVER? Susie Blake, in-vision continuity during the series Victoria Wood on Television, genius and too close to home for some. Like Smashie and Nicey with a certain breed of DJ the spirit of the writers and performers was politically incorrect as they were laughing AT them not with them!

So back to the days of in - vision when a man who looked like a Thunderbird puppet or a woman with big hair and radar dishes for ear rings said.

"A big hello to everyone I met earlier today at the grand Jambouree in aid of blind dogs for the Guides it was so exciting when they kept bumping into the mayor and even more so when my personal appearance fee was paid in cash.

Gosh and there's more excitement later this evening when our very own Nicola La Vatory and the rest of the We're Really Out There team try their hands a underwater darts that's at the rather unusual time of 97 minutes past Winkle Burrow.

OH! But now it's time for our regular Wednesday evening visit to Coronation Street where Rita has lost four more biros and people who think it's clever to drink too much spend all their time in the Rovers."

We have the 'just out of nappies' Paul on local announcements today - a carefully written script (NOT) at 6pm in the midlands went something like this.....

'Pulling Power is on Tuesday night at 10.30pm first on ITV1 it's Campaign Week'.

Campaign week was the correct show but we have over 48 hours of programming before Tuesday night!

My point is - just a drab announcement with no thought about it, poorly written script with no real thought about the content of what he was saying - just replacing the word 'first' with 'but right now' - would have sounded so much better.

Paul Jamieson has to be one of the worst of the current team.

Saying that it was only a regional announcement so does it matter?

I agree this much... the continuity on ITV1 needs improvement. The way it is treated on a regional level (if there is such a thing anymore) is a sham. If the regions were children, they would be taken into care. The likes of Yorkshire and HTV shouldn't be in a foster home, they should be enjoying loving attention from their parents. I was quite pleased with that analogy.

But I think Paul Jamieson is one of the best announcers actually - his voice is distinctive, has character and he is lively. And that's good as far as I'm concerned. So there.