The News on BBC Three

[JamesWorldNews]

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https://twitter.com/chrisckmedia/status/...55456?s=21

[DTV]

Quite a few common features with the Context (and less so OS) titles - flat design, heavily square based, quickly animating abstract patterns, grids of dots, short 'topic' words like News (which seem to animate in a way reminiscent of the cream and red place names). Looking more and more like the new BBC News titles could be similar - which I would be very pleased by.

Though, of course, a lot of TVFers thought that the May 2007 World News Today titles and launch World News America titles would serve as an indication of the April 2008 relaunch. Which the really didn't.

[ginnyfan]

I really hope it's not a sign of what's to come because it's very bland.

[London Lite]

Here's the first edition of The Catch-Up, considering I'm 42, I'm finding the delivery of the young presenter really jarring and it could be nerves that is causing her to sound shouty, but it's BBC Three, it targets young adults and I'm not one of them!

https://youtu.be/JcU3mJjWaiM

[Jayesyn]

The delivery isn't very great. I get what you mean with it sounding shouty. Visually I think it looks great! A modern and sleek design.

[radiolistener]

The delivery isn't very great. I get what you mean with it sounding shouty. Visually I think it looks great! A modern and sleek design.

I find it utterly patronising. A "London" view of what people want to see.

[Mouseboy33]

Geeez thats pretty bad. Sorry I understand what they tried to do, but goodness. Is she a journalist? I dont get the point of why she was used on air. But using her normal speech pattern with that awful overly practised delivery, resulted in a mess. I get it was mean to be casual, but she seems really too casual and monotone and clipped endings. Yeah Im not expecting BBC English from the olden days, but Geeez. All of that was awful and actually patronizing to the youth/ethnic community it was meant to be serving (Im from an ethnic background before anyone gets their knickers in a twist). The graphics and music were fine though.

And if she is a journalist or not.... not everyone is ready or should be on air for a national channel. Sorry but thats my opinion.

Here is NBC's effort with LXNews. Its a news &Information channel aimed a younger demographic. (Casual fun open, but the speech by both presenters is still younger but not tooooo casual. Because it begins to sound amateurish if you venture too far and your not taken seriously)Its a fine line and think the presenter of the Catch Up well and truly stepped over in addition to just a bad "deer-in headlights" delivery. Geez
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[JayTV]

Geeez thats pretty bad. Sorry I understand what they tried to do, but goodness. Is she a journalist? I dont get the point of why she was used on air. But using her normal speech pattern with that awful overly practised delivery, resulted in a mess. I get it was mean to be casual, but she seems really too casual and monotone and clipped endings. Yeah Im not expecting BBC English from the olden days, but Geeez. All of that was awful and actually patronizing to the youth/ethnic community it was meant to be serving (Im from an ethnic background before anyone gets their knickers in a twist). Not everyone is meant to be on air. The graphics and music were fine though.

I don't think this post was necessary. She's a young journalist and did a fine job.

I think the bulletin probably tried to cram a bit too much in and there needed to be a bit more of a clear transition between each story. But they will evolve and change over time, probably.

I didn't really like the 'studio' (green screen) behind the presenter - it was too dark. I'm also interested they went for red and white as the main colour scheme, but obviously they are trying to keep all news programmes 'red' given the upcoming rebrand of BBC News.

[London Lite]

The Catch-Up has two other presenters who are presumably not from London which will give less of a "London-centric" feel to the bulletin.

As for the American youth bulletin used as a comparison, even those anchors are still using standardised American English which is still common in the US as it's still frowned upon to use regional accents on newscasts unlike in the UK.

[Mouseboy33]

All Im saying is a Newsround presenter like Shanequa does a very good presenting to a younger demographic and she still sounds young with presenter voice inflections. Not all high pitched and monotone. Nothing to do with "regional accents". An accent is fine, but there is more to it than that dude.
She presented 2 Feb edition of Newsround.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround

And its got nothing to do with accents in the US. LOL
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKUKkDrrjRM[/media]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf8zu12PakU[/media]

[adamiow]

The delivery was a bit stilted - it needs to be a bit smoother, free flowing and natural. With time, I am sure it will improve.

[Brekkie]

The content was poor as well though - for a show called "The Catch Up" you should feel informed, but this just felt very cut and paste rather than a concise 1-2 minute summary of the news which is done so successful by the likes of Newsbeat.

[GaryMcEwan]

60 Seconds it is not. I zone out after a couple of minutes.

There was nothing jumping out at me and nothing memorable about it.

[bfgarmy]

Does seem slightly odd to not just use of the group of Newsbeat anchors who are already experienced day in day out at delivering news for the sort of audience BBC Three are targeting in that sort of pacy 2 minute summary format and manage to tread the line well between not being too formal but still having a professional delivery.
It'd probably not be Roisin Hastie or Ben Mundy as both do the main Newsbeat slots on Radio 1 but there's several other newsreaders on Radio 1 who seem like they'd have a far more natural delivery style than the anchor they chose.

[JayCasey]

I think the presenter was extremely nervous last night being the first "bulletin".

I use bulletin in quotation marks because the content wasn't great. I agree with those who have said something like Newsround or the old 60 Seconds format would be better.

Once the presenter gets used to the output, I'm sure they will relax into the role and it will flow better. That said, the content, well script, does need finessing somewhat.