Sean Moore
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June 20:02
A new era begins
After last week's end of an era, this morning was the beginning of a new one: News 24 Sunday is born. True to form, I slept through the first half of it – except for some reason it was on half an hour earlier than it should have been (and by that I mean the time I expected it to be on, not the time published in TV listings magazines – they have only a tenuous connection with reality anyway), so it wasn't really my fault.First impressions: very much Frost lite. It was a fairly polished programme and Peter Sissons – a long-time Frost stand-in – did well, but the whole thing seemed very cheap. Rather than coming from a dedicated set, complete with fake bookshelves and pictures of Sir David meeting Nelson Mandela, it was located in a corner of the News 24 studio, where somebody had dragged in a couple of chairs from their office and found a child-sized version of main news desk. Cramped would be an understatement. In these times of BBC budget cuts I suppose it isn't too surprising, but at this rate every programme will come from the old CBBC broom cupboard.
At least, however, Moira Stewart still has a place on the programme – although bizarrely at the giant main news desk. Why the poor woman has to be separated from everyone else I can only wonder. Perhaps it's to do with her hair.
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