[Studio7]

I agree that - with the exception of Matthew, who is excellent - most presenters do seem bored and it’s lost any sense of pace.

Yalda is particularly bad. When I’d seen her before I’d been impressed, but now she’s just dull as ditch water. Doesn’t want to be there. Total yawn-fest.

Can you blame her? I’d be bored too, having gone from presenting hard-hitting international news to having to interview some three-bit showbiz reporter about Pip Schofield. It’s pretty poor. 

Now, Tanya Beckett, OTOH, was excellent on last night’s Context. Very very engaging. dare I say she’s better than the regular host?

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It’s great seeing Matthew again and agree he is about the best and does an excellent job. But, it doesn’t feel like the old days when I used to watch him on News 24. It feels like I’m watching him on a simulcast of BBC World News, a bit like on the odd occasion when they’d simulcast with Global. It just isn’t the same.

It’s not the same because Jane Hill isn’t sat next to him.