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StrictlyEastend
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I cant understand why Reeta Chackrabarti did BBC News at Six tonight but Fiona Bruce is doing BBC News at Ten?
I cant understand why Reeta Chackrabarti did BBC News at Six tonight but Fiona Bruce is doing BBC News at Ten?
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I wish he was on more often
Why shouldn't she? It's up to the BBC News team to decide who presents the bulletins it makes no difference.
Me too!;-)
Why the shock face, the woman has other jobs on radio, why would she present any other bulletin.
Ditto Huw Edwards (commentating on the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games tonight)
Because they do exactly the same "day" job as Mishal Husain.
I'm not surprised at all because they are not employed as TV newsreaders. You might as well ask why Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth don't present the Today programme.
She then also occasionally reads TV bulletins as a "secondary" role, in much the same way as Humphrys presents Mastermind and Davis presents Dragons' Den.
She will also be presenting the morning TV coverage at the Commonwealth Games, 9am to midday (similar to her role at the 2012 Olympics)
I mean seriously
Reeta Chackrabarti presenting the One O Clock news today. I think she might do the Six o'clock. I thought Reeta was some sort of correspondent?
Why does the female presenter on Sunday Breakfast always read the news in the Andrew Marr Show and never the male presenter ? Is it some form of BBC positive discrimination ? Why is the 8 pm 90-second update on BBC1 always read by a woman nationally although locally often by men ? Are these unsolved mysteries of the BBC ?
I was a bit surprised as Fiona Bruce was on news at ten and I thought if Huw and George are away, why can't the six o clock or ten o clock presenter be the same.
I don't know but it makes sense that the BBC have the same presenter for the Andrew Marr show but I don't understand why the BBC have to hire a separate presenter for the eight o clock bulletin, surely the six or ten o'clock presenter could do both?
Ha! I know! I don't know why though, that they don't have fixed presenters for Sunday, at least we see a variety of presenters!
All that and "Why do they keep Maxeen Mawhinney exiled to Saturday only?" Granted she mangles the English language like few others and ruins Dateline London when she subs for Estler but is that any justification for locking her away like in those 70s horror films where something skulked in the attic out of sight?
ftv's favourite subject again: they don't "hire someone" to do the 8pm update that person works in the BBC newsroom already.
Have you not grasped this yet after all the posts you have done about it.
Perhaps she is happy doing that shift, perhaps it fits in with her other duties or even her personal life?
There's no point trying to reason with some people they think Maxine should just be put where she is told, in a modern workforce people work, where possible hours that suit them and maybe Maxine likes Saturday but people don't seem to grasp that reading the news is just a job the same as any other.
They also probably think she just comes in reads the news goes home and never sits in the newsroom and does other work.
She's been undergoing radiotherapy, after a cancer diagnosis earlier this year.