New look for Lookaround

What's the deal with cheesecak?
As far as I'm aware, it doesn't actually contain cheese.

Very odd.

(Edited by c@t at 1:15 pm on Sep. 13, 2001)

Anyway, it's called cheese cake !!!

Erm, this post may be equally as pointless as yours but why have you dragged up an old topic just to correct what seems to be a private joke?

'Cos Lookariound never did relaunch, and I heard rumours it was this week!

Does that have any relation to Lookaround?

If it does then I must be very stupid to not see the hidden meaning!!!

Also, don't believe all the rumours you hear, very few are actually true.

It was the talk of the Border TV 40th anniversary party, which I attended (big girly show-off that I must now appear to be).

So if it's not already happened, it must be imminent.

Better than a rumour, I'd venture to suggest.

I'm not doubting that you in the know, I dare say Lookaround will launch. Spiring thought that Lookaround could be this week, which obviously turned out to be wrong.

Thats what I was referring to, so please do keep flooding this forum with the 'the knowledge.'

I disagree with you SkyNews, Granada's news output is certainly not dreadful. Ok...so the graphics could be improved, but the programme 'Granada Reports' is very good indeed. It has 2 excellent presenters, Lucy Meacock and Rob McLoughlin. I don't really think that NWT is much better than Granada Reports.

What have they done to Fred??!! I hope they haven't got rid of him from the programme...for the last 2 days Rob has done the weather.

Tonight I watched Granada Reports, and then NWT straight after.... To be honest, in terms of quality I can't see much difference between the two programmes.

As far as I'm concerned, Granada TV's news is by far underrated. Although they could do so much better with those graphics!

Just a thought on why Irish Terror Groups phone their warnings to ITV stations. It could be because the BBC are the British Broadcasting Corporation - be a bit ironic to phone in the warnings to them.

Aswell as that the BBC are part of the establishment who these groups are out to undermine so it would go against their principles to phone the BBC. Phoning RTE wouldn't do much good for obvious reasons and only ITV can really compete with the beeb.

OT The Independent is very out of touch - in their media section today they had a picture of Emily Maitlis in the Sky newsroom for a piece comparing N24s and Skys coverage of the Terrorism War. Weird, how they could've missed it - the beeb have been trumpeting it. To mention it the day after it launched with a moderate fanfare is bit of a faux pas.

Not that it really bothers me - I'm a Mirror reader myself! Anyway if I was forced upmarket I'd read The Guardian.

I read this on the Inde's website, which is seriously underated and a hell of a lot better than The Telegraph's offering. Anyway, the article confused me a little so I decided to go out and buy the paper and sure enough, there in the Review section was the little article with a picture of Esler on News 24's 1997 and Maitlis on Sky's 1998 set. Also, the idea that Elser is superior to anything Sky have to offer is utter bollocks. Since when have Jane Hill and Gavin Esler been top rated presenters? I'd agree they were both impressive but the BBC were comparing them to Sky's Jeremy Thompson, winner of an Emmy award for his news coverage as well as 3 gold medals from the New York journalism awards, and Kay Burley who has been on air during almost every major news event of the past 12 years.

The article was painfully out of touch, too. It started by saying that Sky were planning to launch a new studio and then half way through - as if he'd written it over a period of a couple of weeks - he said the new studio was launched yesterday. Crazy.

BARB's viewing figures are totally up the spout for this coverage. The official viewing figure that has been given out for Sky News's peak audience on the 11th is almost 1 million viewers. Yet in the BARB run down they totally missed this and the 985,000 viewers that Sky News got at 5pm didn't even appear in their summary, so god knows what they're up to.

Just had a look and the article can be found at:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=97074


I know this is still off topic but I'd be interested to know - I hope RB will be able to help me out, all knowing man that he is - which paper is the largest in terms of correspondents? I know the Inde are not as big as their rivals - when did the Inde actually start? I'd guess at The Times or The Guardian being the largest in terms of how many people they've got, and where they are. But does anyone have any figures about this because I'd be interested to know.

i remember central doing a special edition on the good friday when all the good friday agreement was going on in northern ireland.  bob warman presented a special on the floods in the midlands accross all 3 sub regions from the birmingham studio (i remember him mentioning that)

i know its not a newsflash - but im sure it wasnt scheduled as it was a bank holiiday, so they obviously broke away from network programs for it

BTW, Lookaround has relaunched with a new look which is a very slight improvement on the old set and is using the generic end board (in blue) (like on Emmerdale and Coronation St.)