30-05-2024, 10:53 AM
(30-05-2024, 10:31 AM)House Wrote: The News at One from a large red sofa is certainly a choice. Makes it feel like a regional news programme.
At least they’ve gone for a new Salford newsroom background, rather than simply reusing the London one.
Slightly puzzled by the large number (6) of named presenters for a five-day-a-week programme. I assume the idea is there isn’t a dedicated presenter but rather those prominent elsewhere (Sally, John and Nina from Breakfast, Ben from the NC, Tina from R2 and Anna Foster as, presumably, a Salford-based correspondent?). But it would still seem preferable to me to appoint one or two, and rely on the same pool of presenters who cover Breakfast to cover their absence.
The set has plenty of stand up positions for storytelling, and being on a sofa makes zero difference - it's not like is a reclining black leather easyboy from dfs with pop out foot rests.
The UKs number one news programme slot is the 6:30PM regional news. Are the stories about some of England's most impactful, dramatic, harrowing events reduced becouse the presenter was sat with a fabric red bar behind their MCU, as opposed to a perspex red bar? Nope.