Just watched the first half an hour and was quite impressed. Fairly slick but the 1D segment near the start seemed a bit out of place with the other news items. I'm not sure I'd have Sean sitting at the desk constantly either. I wasn't expecting an ad free zone either so that was a nice surprise.
like the Presenting team
but so many on screen graphics they need to drop the weather one in the lower right corner and slow the stories down its too fast at the moment
Originally Posted by Stunty: “Competition time ..... I'm back over to BBC.
I shall be back, this is too critical not to see how GMB copes with adverts.”
ITV is a commercial network, it's natural they would have ad breaks and various competitions. We can't except them to stop running ads and competitions tbh.
Originally Posted by davor: “ITV is a commercial network, it's natural they would have ad breaks and various competitions. We can't except them to stop running ads and competitions tbh.”
I don't think Sky News do competitions and they are commercial.
Originally Posted by steveh31: “Features exactly same times as Breakfast.... tut like we wouldn't notice that even a weather map that tours the country.”
Originally Posted by davor: “ITV is a commercial network, it's natural they would have ad breaks and various competitions. We can't except them to stop running ads and competitions tbh.”
Ads I agree but competitions are a viewing disaster if they want to attract ratings. They threaten the whole feel of the programme in my opinion.
And they carry on with the taking turns.
No Bens turn to interview someone at the chairs.
There's the odd section where they're all sitting at the desk grinning inanely in a smugfest then jumping to individuals doing different bits. It's all a bit random. Now they've gone back to the desk but it's just Susanna and the sports presenter but they're acting like the 2 main presenters and going into a story that's non-sport. Handing over to Ranvir on location who then hands back not to Susanna and sports guy but Charlotte with a quick headline summary and then a quick bit with them all at the desk before over to Laura for the weather.
It's like a fast game of pass the parcel with news!!
Originally Posted by smokeyjoeUK: “Ben Shephard is soooo shockingly bad.”
Just turned it on - he looks bored to death and is not listening to a word that woman is talking about (internet cons) just looking down at his papers.
Back to Eamonn me thinks.