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(October 2003)

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A former member
did anyone else watch northwest tonight on monday and notice gordon burns having problems throughout?

Also, does anyone know if Frank Skinner is repeated atall???????????????
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A former member
no and no.

next.
DV
dvboy
repeats of Monday's Frank Skinner Show are...

Thursday night @ 23:00 on ITV2
Saturday night @ 23:30 on ITV1, ITV1 Wales, UTV
Saturday night @ 01:55 on Scottish, Grampian
Sunday night @ 00:30 on ITV2
DJ
DJ Dave
what the heck are you 2 going on about? Anyway yes i saw it when i told my sister she said i don't belive you as it happend so many times. He did say sorry at the end of the show and crack a joke about it was Monday and not the best Monday for them.
RD
rdobbie
Yes, I saw it and it was very odd as it wasn't apparent what the problem was. Gordon Burns kept pausing and saying "just bear with me a few moments". Once is understandable but it was happening after every report.

If it was a persistent autocue problem surely he would have had have duplicate print-outs on his desk, or are they not professional enough to do that on regional news?
DJ
DJ Dave
well he had loads of papers on his desk, Anyway on one report it came back to the studio for a few seconds and then flicked back to the report. So what was going on i don't know.
RD
rdobbie
Gordon's at it again on tonght's show!

After the first two reports, a baffled look, and "just bear with me a few seconds..."

And during his live link with Stuart Flinders at the burnt down motorway services, he was stuttering and finding it very difficult.

Weird.
TI
This Is Granada
rdobbie posted:
just bear with me a few seconds..."


What!!!!! Just bear with me for a few seconds. You would never get shouty Tina Bangs coming out with phrases like that!
Poor Gordon. When everything goes right, he's fine, but when it all cocks up, he’s not as good as others at handling the situation.
DY
Dour Yorkshireman
there were cock oop alright. gordon saw tina's knockers and his cock were right oop after that.
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A former member
NWT is too slow, they really need to do something to the programme to make it more lively.
TV
TVDragon
This Is Granada posted:
rdobbie posted:
just bear with me a few seconds..."


What!!!!! Just bear with me for a few seconds. You would never get shouty Tina Bangs coming out with phrases like that!
Poor Gordon. When everything goes right, he's fine, but when it all cocks up, he’s not as good as others at handling the situation.


At least he didn't come out with a whole load of expletives and kick off at the camera people and floor crew. Leave that to the *professionals*, eh.

NWT blatantly needs a second presenter. It doesn't need to go any faster imo, but would benefit from a second presenter's personality. Only NWT don't have any female presenters for the evening, and news programmes don't seem to go for same sex pairings if they can help it.
NE
Neil__
Phil posted:
NWT is too slow, they really need to do something to the programme to make it more lively.

Rumour has it that the January 04 relaunch of NWT will see Gordon paired with tap-dancing gerbils on Mon-Thurs and a man-eating tiger on Fri.

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