14-06-2021, 04:28 PM
This is the most surreal televisual broadcast I have seen in a long, long time. There is literally a mistake, jarring piece of presentation or awkward silence between the presenters every two or three minutes seemingly on rotation throughout the day.
Every time I log back on, within five minutes, my brow becomes furrowed looking though the gaps in my fingers due to the astounding lack of preparedness as highlighted in all ***58*** pages of discussion so far.
I'll pick up on a couple of things. Alex's Agenda is literally her spouting off the topics she is into today, and then goes into the weather of all things ruining any sense of continuity. But credit (I can't believe I'm saying this) to Dan Wootton, who's monologue actually appeared to set the agenda for his show. It looked like Simon had experienced a culture shock. Monologues are meant to be monologues, with one person in shot, otherwise you get the strained look on Simon's face which is totally distracting.
It's bugging me the way they're saying our "family" of presenters who are "so talented". Simon said it sounds cheesy and it is, just say "team". The Wales reporter is the best I've seen on the channel so far, but even he didn't get any camera shots, vox-pop or evidence to back up anything he said.
And the 3pm handover was almost a disaster, imagine it could have been Grenfell they were discussing while Liam and Gloria went off set giggling hysterically , I thought it would be engrained to remain quiet before mics are taken off your clothing, as those types of mistakes happen in the best run news operations.
It's shoddy and it has no right to call itself a news channel at the moment. I like another poster was hoping it would be an edgy Times Radio TV, which I find really engaging and hit the ground running with an interview with the Prime Minister with few tech issues. I'm a bit disappointed so far.
Every time I log back on, within five minutes, my brow becomes furrowed looking though the gaps in my fingers due to the astounding lack of preparedness as highlighted in all ***58*** pages of discussion so far.
I'll pick up on a couple of things. Alex's Agenda is literally her spouting off the topics she is into today, and then goes into the weather of all things ruining any sense of continuity. But credit (I can't believe I'm saying this) to Dan Wootton, who's monologue actually appeared to set the agenda for his show. It looked like Simon had experienced a culture shock. Monologues are meant to be monologues, with one person in shot, otherwise you get the strained look on Simon's face which is totally distracting.
It's bugging me the way they're saying our "family" of presenters who are "so talented". Simon said it sounds cheesy and it is, just say "team". The Wales reporter is the best I've seen on the channel so far, but even he didn't get any camera shots, vox-pop or evidence to back up anything he said.
And the 3pm handover was almost a disaster, imagine it could have been Grenfell they were discussing while Liam and Gloria went off set giggling hysterically , I thought it would be engrained to remain quiet before mics are taken off your clothing, as those types of mistakes happen in the best run news operations.
It's shoddy and it has no right to call itself a news channel at the moment. I like another poster was hoping it would be an edgy Times Radio TV, which I find really engaging and hit the ground running with an interview with the Prime Minister with few tech issues. I'm a bit disappointed so far.