16-11-2022, 01:35 AM
(16-11-2022, 12:07 AM)Kojak Wrote: Does anyone else think there is still (nearly three years on!) a big hole in the presenter line-up since Alastair Stewart left? Until the start of 2020, whenever any of the main presenters (so Nina, Mary, Tom/Julie/Rageh) were away, 9 times out of 10 Alastair would fill in. Now it seems to be anyone and everyone. Over the past few months I've seen Lucrezia and Chris Ship on News at Ten, Gamal on the Lunchtime and even Evening News, and it seems anyone walking along Gray's Inn Road gets to do the Lunchtime News. I don't know. It just seems to lack consistency now.It could be that they are just testing the waters for the future anchors maybe? After all, Mary won’t be there forever so someone else will take over as Anchor eventually for the evening news… my money would be on Lucrezia personally as Charlene is too busy with Loose Women to do ITV News full time unless she left there to concentrate on ITV News fully. But I know what you mean; there’s been a lot of new faces popping up recently.