That Reeta Chakrabarti clip, I think newsreaders need to be slightly more animated at times like that in order they get noticed on the bank of monitors in the gallery.
But not exaggerated gestures - which then makes it on air.
You'd have thought they would have a button under the desk which when pressed, lights up in the eyeline of the director in the gallery.
Quite an ominous announcement leading into that newsflash on BBC One. Am I right in saying this is the first BBC One newsflash since Nelson Mandela's death?