[qwerty123]

I don't keep up with this thread as much as I used to, so I didn't know that some of the 5 former female NC presenters have been given off-air roles. Although I stand by my point that it's a massive waste of talent for these 5 female presenters to be kept off our screens whilst freelancers fill shifts on the news channel and there's a potential (hopefully, only temporary) shortage of presenters for BBC 1 bulletins.

The problem there is that they couldn’t contractually commit to giving any of those presenters shifts on BBC One when on paper at least (although the reality is different and retaining the pool that they have makes perfect sense in practice) the BBC One team is already substantially over staffed and it’s unlikely that any of these presenters would return to air without being offered a contractual commitment. If the best case scenario happened and Huw and George were both able to return to work (even assuming neither of them were to return to more than 3 bulletins a week as they have done when on air for the past few years) it would leave 7 bulletins a week and cover to split between Reeta, Clive, Jane, Ben, Fiona, Mishal, Tina and anybody else they gave BBC One shifts to.