Anyone see a promotion for this after Corrie? Apparently its going to be a satirical look a news events and hosted by Trevor McDonald.
I'm instantly thinking its going to be like Daily Show with Jon Stewart but with a humourless presenter. Not that Jon Stewart makes me laugh but...you know what I mean.
When Trevor did HIGNFY he said Marcus Brigstocke was employed by the BBC to make Anne Robinson look funny. Well it seems ironicly that ITV are doing this with Sir Trevor if the ads anything to go by.
From the trailer I saw tonight it looks rather contrived. As far as newsreaders presenting satirical shows, they have to be able to bring charisma to the show instead of being all newsy. Kinda like Moira Stuart on HIGNFY, frighteningly false.
I like Sir Trev, I just hope that News Knight doesn't turn to be as contrived as ITV's last piss poor attempt, Get A Grip.
How should the title be pronounced? Is it pronounced the same as
Newsnight
, or should it be
News by a silly English Knnnnn-igt!!!
?
Or Trinidad knight
Seems a bit strange, Trevor doing this once a week, then doing a serious current affairs programme
Tonight...
twice a week! Not that Sir Trevor has much input into the latter programme
Yeah, they need to do something about the Tonight programme - give Sir Trev some cutting interviews to do or something.
Big Trev does the interviews when warranted, like when he interviewed that female soldier held captive by the Iranians. There have been other occasions.
Other than that, why should he ? It's the most popular current affairs programme on TV, I assume that viewers are tuning in for reasons other than Trev topping and tailing the programme.
