09-02-2023, 10:27 PM
(09-02-2023, 09:47 PM)nwtv2003 Wrote: I’ll be honest I don’t watch the channel, and I don’t have a lot to say about it. But I’m amazed Alastair Stewart has stuck around for so long, I always felt he was always one of Andrew Neil’s main signings for the channel, along with Simon McCoy. Likewise getting Eamonn Holmes was a big coup (obviously long after Andrew Neil left), but I guess in their cases it hasn’t really done any harm to their careers.Isabel Webster, too. I can see her being snapped up by ITV or similar if/when she moves on from GBN. With Al, I think it's more a case of it being a fairly light workload and him essentially having free rein.
(09-02-2023, 10:15 PM)Stockland Hillman Wrote: GB News sweet spot is company and chat with cosy presenters doing mid market 55+ appeal stories all day with a Farage and Wooton to give it a bit of bite at prime time.
Basically 2005-10 Sky News and ITV daytime before the media needle on 'acceptable content' moved to its current extreme.
They could really clean up 22:30-00:00 with a warmer paper review slot, the current guest rota is to 'one note ' unfunny male comedy. Simon McCoy with a decent guest rota would be perfect fit, would demolish the remaining ratings of Sky News, which feels to me like a university staff meeting on zoom. So worthy, so 'correct',so dull.
Like an edgy 'This Morning' - which oddly enough is exactly how Simon himself described what GB News would be, not long before it first went on air. I don't think he'd go back, tbh - he seems very moderate, and nowhere near fire and brimstone enough for what GBN seems to want to be. I do agree with you, though. Some much needed calm, intelligent discussion would be the perfect anecdote to the current rabble of the press previews chez Sky.