I'm not saying it's a bad thing he's still there. In a way, good for him and it shows he's there because he wants to be and unlike Juliet, Krishnan and now Julie Etchingham does not seem to be viewing Newsround as merely a foot on the career ladder to the world of adult news.
Most children's presenters you see also see their CBBC/CITV roles as the means to an end although some, like Mark Speight and Neil Buchanan, seem like immovables in the children's TV landscape. However, now that Kirsten O'Brien has finally made the jump she's chosen to do it on a show which couldn't be more the antithesis of her cosy CBBC world...
Ho-hum! While I doubt that Mr Paxman would come down and guest-host Newsround it used to be the case that someone from the regular BBC news team would fill in should John Craven be unavailable.
Paradoxically, Ellie and Becky Jago both came from "adult news" (Tyne Tees News and Anglia Weather respectively) and, in a great illustration of Newsround's changing demographic, Tony Blair once mistook Becky for a pupil when Newsround visited him with a delegation of sixth formers.
CBBC is to remain on BBC1, after Richard Deverell secured assurances from Jana Bennett regarding its future. However, the trade-off is that when Neighbours ends, and depending on what replaces it, the slot may be shortened to a 5pm end time:
Is certainately what's been mooted about with, so it could mean a 5.15pm finish if they keep the 45 minute format, but saying that CBBC could always start earlier.
If this is a possibility to fill the slot, then I'd like to know what they're filling 25 minutes with at Lunchtime, one would assume Doctors could be moving to 1.40pm, but there's still the time gap.
Why does anything actually have to "replace" Neighbours, given that Neighbours itself only came to be in this particular slot which until that point had proven difficult to fill?
No-one seems to have considered the possibility of CBBC starting later and ending at 6pm, as it did following the end of Sixty Minutes in 1984.
Why does anything actually have to "replace" Neighbours, given that Neighbours itself only came to be in this particular slot which until that point had proven difficult to fill?
No-one seems to have considered the possibility of CBBC starting later and ending at 6pm, as it did following the end of Sixty Minutes in 1984.
That is a good point, and surely most people who watch Neighbours don't stick around for the news, and the news is what creates an audience for the rest of the evening. Though they're most probably thinking about the competition aspect running in the 5pm hour, which they shouldn't do really, as they don't require the audience, which is something that the BBC seem to be doing nowadays, going after the ratings even though they don't need the rating to provide their revenue.
