I suggest you check out her career to date on Wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Winkleman

She's managed to get a bit "further than the auto-cue."

Yes a non-entity despite all the doors open for her until she joined the modern gravy train of goody boy/girl presenting gigs on the BBC prime slot shows.

guess I am in the minority that thinks there is nothing wrong with Tess and she is doing a fine job presenting a prime time saturday night show - live

I have to agree, her radio performance was execrable. She has come to the fore by building a small following who apparently like what they define as her quirkiness and she is also in the right place at the right time. In a straight audition she wouldn't have even made the line-up.

I cant stand either of them, the show needs to go back to basics and refresh the presenters

"Presenters?"

That's an over-used word and non-applicable in the case of Strictly.

The show only needs "introducers," Which was proved once they finally got rid of the "I made the show my own, " old codger.

Introducers is what it's got.

"Presenters" are there to sell a programme (in some they need three, or the name of the presenter in the title), this show doesn't need selling, it's already been sold. The ratings prove it. It has its own momentum.

Thats a fair comment Doghouse

Judges are fine keep craig, darcey and bruno. New judge next year to replace Len, viewers dont like too much change look what happened on xfactor

Yes but Cow changed for the worse most of the time and didn't apply the strict BBC control, it is hard to see how a top class presenter or two could not improve this show.

That momentum could quickly turn and if Balls had held his seat last year this year could have been a disaster ratings wise, Balls has dominated the interest and it won't be easy next year to replicate that. Goodman going should help on the judging side but that in itself might not be enough.

What are they going to do?

"The next couple is: Louise and Kevin.... but first a song!"

Well done Louise and Kevin, "Len, before you give your comments, I must tell you a funny story."

"Now before the next couple I'm going to tap dance whilst I play the piano."

I can't see it, can you?

There is plenty that can be done a few jokes, a bit of piss-taking there is scope for the right people to take it on, like Forsyth in his prime if you like.

It's all a distraction from the dancing, the main reason some of us watch the show. There's enough faffing about already, more every year.

I know, if the BBC got someone really good say like, Graham Norton, who those who watch his shows think he's fantastic, they could cut right down on the dancing, or even get rid of it completely.
Tess and Claudia's bits are mostly "filling" while the band, the lighting technicians, props, etc., and the contestants prepare for the next dance. Why pay more for filling?

Who is this Cow? I feel like we're supposed to know (and I don't)

Ratings are not everything. SCD will always do well, especially when put against weak opposition. But the show is coasting at the moment and urgently needs a proper host.

It isn't filling. It's providing the show with its personality which at the moment is lacking. The three sections need to work in harmony and the hosts are the weak link at the moment. Of course they don't need to cut down on the dancing. What they need to 'cut down on' is woodentop Tess, desperate Claudia and the producers banale attempts to turn things like the terms and conditions into gags. Shows how desperate they are.

I cannot believe that in your years of viewing you have not see proper professional hosts in action. Did Wogan pass you by?

seriously?

Yep!

As often as possible.


Sorry, but the ratings say different. Even if the audience watches the show despite Tess an Claudia, they aren't going to be changed as the ratings are the highest for any BBC entertainment show, if not any show.

ITV will have to come up with something spectacular before the BBC throw any more money at Strictly.

For primetime tv programmes in competition with others, ratings very much do matter as its the name of the game. I think for that reason alone at the moment, the SCD producers wont change things whilst theyre pulling the audiences in. Why would they take a chance, certainly given that primetime and, more pointedly perhaps, presenters comfortable with the live medium aren't exactly in abundance.

Assume he means Simon Cowell, as it's in reference to X Factor.

Completely agree with this. If Tess could just do blandly robotic she and Claudia would work fine as a double act. She can't interact with humans. If she keeps trying to do sub-Brucie then I'd like to see her replaced by Graham Norton and Claudia by an empathetic straight person.

I tend to agree with this. Claudia makes me laugh, but then she is perfect for the smaller environment of the Claudatorium as she used to be for ITT. But Tess's constant haranguing of Craig when he says something negative about a contestant is getting very old, very fast. Bruce was the same and I hated it from him too. These people are all grown adults and should be capable of some criticism, they really signed up for the wrong show if they can't.

I mentioned in another thread the difference between Tess on Strictly and Tom Bergeron on DWTS. They are polar opposites when it comes to hosts. Tom is a well oiled machine compared to Tess and Strictly really needs someone of that experience at the helm. I will say she did ok being Bruce's partner in crime, she kept him on the straight and narrow to some degree, but now she has the top job she seems to be turning into a female Brucie more and more each series.

Tess is a fantastic presenter it's a difficult show to host, up to two hours twenty minutes then recording if a results show. She has an earpiece with editors instructions, and random things happening, celebrities talking longer etc.

I think the robotic comments are rude, and unless anyone here has hosted a live show for two hours are not legitimate.

If anyone watches she is often running on and off the set. She has not morphed into Bruce, he did comedy, Claudia has taken this over.

Some here have had a go at Tess, Len, Bruce etc, in fact anyone who is associated with SCD, but it tops the ratings so they are doing a lot right.

People posting should remember she is a human being and has a life, and forget Newszoids parodies. .

Look, if you're going to contribute to a message board, you can't expect to apply your own rules as to what people can or cannot say. If

Nothing on here has been really "rude," they are personal observations, it just makes me smile when some on here "get all sensitive" on behalf of someone on the telly, who wouldn't know them from Adam and probably couldn't care less about them.

If another poster gets "personal" about you, that's the time when you can complain.

People on TV expect some viewers to not like them, it goes with the territory.