24-09-2023, 02:44 PM
Agreed that Derbyshire suits the format much better. Kuenssberg is a journalist, not a presenter, and she has not truly settled into this role.
It's quite telling that you don't hear of major interviews or moments from the show anymore in the way you did when Marr was host, the only time I'd say the show has seen any wider attention online was when Joe Lycett made a bit of a mockery of it. It doesn't really sit as a big-hitting political show, which I think it wants to be, and it doesn't focus enough on social or cultural issues to make it an alternative to a normal politics show. It's just not filling a gap in the market, and it's not good enough to succeed in spit of that.
It's quite telling that you don't hear of major interviews or moments from the show anymore in the way you did when Marr was host, the only time I'd say the show has seen any wider attention online was when Joe Lycett made a bit of a mockery of it. It doesn't really sit as a big-hitting political show, which I think it wants to be, and it doesn't focus enough on social or cultural issues to make it an alternative to a normal politics show. It's just not filling a gap in the market, and it's not good enough to succeed in spit of that.