[AndyB2008]

I agree Ian did a great job (as have all the stand-ins to be fair). But you do have to wonder how long First Edition in its current form will last. 
If Kyle and Thorp go to Breakfast - and providing Julia stays at Talk - how about having her in the late night 10pm-midnight slot (ditching the 11pm PMU repeat)?

I would have Rosanna Lockwood at 7pm with a new news-y show.

7pm - Rosanna Lockwood
8pm - Piers Morgan Uncensored
9pm - The Talk 
10pm - Julia Hartley-Brewer
12am - Piers Morgan Uncensored (r)

If the Piers repeat moves to 12am, what then happens to Petrie Hosken, the last hour of her show which is simulcast on radio and TV?

Petrie lost overnights when TalkTV started to cut back (Darryl Morris went to Times Radio as a result too).

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They already had newsy style show at 7pm, it regularly recorded zero viewers. I don’t see the use of trying that again.

They’d be better off showing the best bits of their breakfast show.

Yep, The News Desk it was called, and it didn't help that it was scheduled against the already established Channel 4 News, a similar analytical news programme. 

Not to mention the extended ITV 6.30pm bulletin had launched 3 months earlier before The News Desk debuted. (And again, ITV's 6.30pm news was established)

Moving Tom Newton Dunn to 10pm (which saw Daisy McAndrew's show axed in the process) was a sign Talk had lost patience with the ratings for his show at 7pm, and probably felt Kyle would bring his ITV audience to 7pm instead.