Hahahah! That was great! Even my heart skipped a bit when I saw that fly across the table!! If only Christine and Adrian were presenting...!
Although Matt Baker and Louise are good, I don't like the way Matt sits - it really irritates me the way that he shy's behind Louise! Grrrr.... other than that, I wouldn't be put off if he was givien a presenting role at some point. Last week and this week have continued the top notch shows that we have had since the return.
I'm sure they would never have brought up The Professionals in that way if Martin Shaw wasn't happy to talk about it... and certainly not if he'd have been hurt or offended. The One Show isn't that kind of programme - and bringing up The Professionals against his wishes could hardly be justified as refusing to agree what a guest could or could not be asked!
I've no problem with the spoofs in front of the titles on The One Show - they either work or they don't and that's a matter of personal taste. (They're hardly a novel idea though. Same thing happened in the latter days of Pebble Mill at One 25 years ago!)
But if Louise is only a stand-in presenter and wants to remain best-known as a newsreader, it's maybe not a good idea for her to take part in them.... it could start to undermine her credibility as a harder presenter. (Though I'm increasingly convinced she'd be perfect as Christine's replacement and would certainly not complain if she was.)
But if Louise is only a stand-in presenter and wants to remain best-known as a newsreader, it's maybe not a good idea for her to take part in them.... it could start to undermine her credibility as a harder presenter.
Would you say the same about the Comic Relief/Children in Need dance routines that newsreaders do each year? I can't remember if Louise Minchin has been involved in any herself.
No... because on Children in Need normally "serious" presenters are lightening up and Doing Something Different to raise money for a good cause.
On The One Show, it's about the personalities of the presenters... which is fine for The One Show but not if you're going to be reading the news or doing another job in "serious" telly where your personality is neither here nor there the next day.
I have to agree I think Louise would make a fine replacement for Christine - doubt it would happen though. She's got that lighter side to her better expressed on The One Show or Breakfast to presenting something like a BBC 1 bulletin, which seem to have disappeared when the beeb discovered it was paying Kate Silverton to do very little, and Louise has the journalistic credibility others lack.
I also think there's no need to make a big song and dance about the new presenter - they didn't when Christine joined.
Within BBC News, showing a lighter side on-air can be frowned upon professionally... in every sense.
News management tend not to be very happy in principle when their people start to pop up on other programmes, except when they are essentially playing to their news persona or if there's an exceptional reason. And they sometimes tend to wonder whether individuals are really committed to news when they start to do other, unrelated things on air.
(Somebody outside the BBC may innocently imagine that The One Show, as a topical programme with good popular journalism, is "related" to news - but that's not how it would be seen within the BBC News directorate. If Louise were to keep on doing The One Show, I'd bet that - however nicely - somebody in news management would eventually ask her what she REALLY wanted to be doing.)
She presented one of the reports today. I think the programme today was quite poor. Two of the reports were very similar and they were both very boring ("Woman looks for love on the Internet, ends up sending money to someone she doesn't know" and "Man looks for job on the Internet, ends up sending money to someone he doesn't know"). They also did an arkward down the line interview with Tom Cruise which probably would have been more suited to Live from Studio Five than The One Show. The ending was rushed because they had to show an advert for a film, that shouldn't happen on any BBC programme IMHO.
:-(
A former member
when is it summer break? hopeful it want come back
when is it summer break? hopeful it want come back
One bad programme shouldn't lead to cancellation. They already had their summer break. They came back two weeks ago and it has generally been very good, that is why the programme today stands out as a bad one in my eyes.
